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  • Brotherhood (2016)
    Review preview for Brotherhood

    You could have written the script on the back of Ray Winstone's betting slip

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    First there was Kidulthood then Adulthood now comes Noel Clarke's last installment of his personal Odyssey.
  • Kill Command (2016)
    Review preview for Kill Command

    Fans of Seventies science fiction television may feel a twinge of nostalgia at the creation of futurescapes out of disused industrial buildings.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A military training exercise goes wrong when robot targets turn the tables.
  • Micah (2011)
    Review preview for Micah

    The performances are predicated upon an excellent script.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Tensions escalate between two brothers as the apparently respectable life of one begins to unravel.
  • One Day (2011)
    Review preview for One Day

    Disbelief is suspended by a thread so fine it is in danger of snapping almost constantly.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Will they/won't they romance set over two decades.
  • Payback Season (2012)
    Review preview for Payback Season

    An ambitious but flawed story about an estate kid turned football pro that disappears between the two world it wants to depict.

    Sophie Monks Kaufman · 1.5 out of 5
    The world of a hotshot Premiership footballer finds his life turned upside down after a run in with the crew from his old estate.
  • Starred Up (2013)
    Review preview for Starred Up

    Mackenzie shows everyone, inmates and guards alike, to be trapped in a corrupted, corrupting system that resists all change.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A young offender is relocated to the adult prison where his father is locked up.

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