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  • Chaos Walking (2021)
    Review preview for Chaos Walking

    The high concept - that the thoughts of everyone on the dystopian New World appear as a cloud of "noise" about their head - does, ironically, take some getting your head around.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    On a dystopian futuristic planet, all men's thoughts appear as "noise" around their heads... a problem for young Todd when he runs across a space girl.
  • Cleaner (2025)
    Review preview for Cleaner

    Ridley may not be in the top league of current action stars but she can handle herself, and she is at any rate more convincing as a former soldier than she is as a member of the working class.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Environmental activists hijack a gala, taking 300 hostages. After one extremist seizes control, planning mass murder as a message to the world, it's up to a former soldier turned window cleaner to save the day.
  • Magpie (2024)
    Review preview for Magpie

    Yates recognises Ridley’s skill with interiorised emotion and makes the most of it.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    When Ben and Anette's daughter is cast in a film alongside glamorous movie star Alicia, Ben is quickly drawn into Alicia's world. Anette is left at home with the baby, pushed to her emotional limits and psychologically on the brink.
  • Murder On The Orient Express (2017)
    Review preview for Murder On The Orient Express

    If Ustinov emphasised the humour of Poirot and Suchet the meticulousness, Branagh manages to bridge the two, while also bringing an unexpected note of soulfulness and melancholy to his performance.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    When a man is killed on a train, the Belgian sleuth steps in to investigate.
  • Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)
    Review preview for Sometimes I Think About Dying

    The film wonderfully captures the dynamics of workplace small talk.

    Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
    Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.
  • Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019)
    Review preview for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

    This is perhaps less a swansong than a familiar sunset

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga.
  • Star Wars: Episode 7 - The Force Awakens (2015)
    Review preview for Star Wars: Episode 7 - The Force Awakens

    The Force Awakens manages to stop one thinking about how disbelief is suspended and instead carry one along.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a new threat has emerged and new heroes must arise to save the day.
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
    Review preview for Star Wars: The Last Jedi

    It's that old magic again.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Having taken her first steps into the Jedi world, Rey joins Luke Skywalker on an adventure with Leia, Finn and Poe that unlocks mysteries of the Force and secrets of the past.

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