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  • 16 Blocks (2006)
    Review preview for 16 Blocks

    The concept of 16 Blocks is nothing new... Unfortunately, the concept outweighs the result.

    David Stanners · 3 out of 5
    For a New York cop and his witness, the distance between life and death is 16 blocks long.
  • Contact (1997)
    Review preview for Contact

    Sentimentality washes over the cold, technical body of the screenplay.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A radio ham finds proof of aliens.
  • Dancer In The Dark (2000)
    Review preview for Dancer In The Dark

    Bjork demonstrates an intuitive talent for acting that breaks your heart.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A Czech migrant saves for an eye op for her son while dreaming of Hollywood song and dance numbers.
  • Down In The Valley (2005)
    Review preview for Down In The Valley

    If you like your cinema challenging, uncomfortable, exciting and enlightening, check this out.

    Iain Macleod · 4 out of 5
    A pure love story goes dark in the shadow of the gun.
  • Dreamer (2005)
    Review preview for Dreamer

    The story is told without frills and if you find yourself choking with emotion practically all the way through, it doesn't feel faked.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The story of a racehorse with a broken leg and a little girl who won't give up.
  • Disturbia (2007)
    Review preview for Disturbia

    Looks terrific and moves with the fluidity and energy of a much classier picture.

    The Exile · 3.5 out of 5
    A teenager becomes convinced his neighbour is a serial killer.
  • Extreme Measures (1996)
    Review preview for Extreme Measures

    There isn't a massive amount of 'action' per say, but Apted's expertly-paced tale throbs with genuine suspense as the net progressively closes in on Guy.

    Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5
    A surgeon begins to suspect one of his eminent colleagues may be in the business of harming rather than healing people.
  • The Good Son (1993)
    Macaulay Culkin turns psychotic killer in family melodrama.
  • The Green Mile (1999)
    Review preview for The Green Mile

    The film is as soft as butter. Sentimentality clogs the air ducts until it is difficult to breathe.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A prison guard's relationship with a death row prisoner. Now out to own on Special Edition two-disc DVD.
  • Hearts In Atlantis (2001)
    Review preview for Hearts In Atlantis

    Yelchin has a unique talent. He conveys subtle child emotions with an ease and accuracy that is uncanny.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Anthony Hopkins is a psychic lodger in the Fifties home of 11-year-old Anton Yelchin.
  • The Hurt Locker (2008)
    Review preview for The Hurt Locker

    An unrelenting, absolutely riveting and often unflattering portrait of frontline action through the eyes of brave people doing their best to survive.

    Trinity · 4.5 out of 5
    An elite bomb disposal unit struggles to function in the heart of the Iraq war.
  • Horns (2013)
    Review preview for Horns

    The chiller/thriller mix doesn't set.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A man sprouts horns after the mysterious death of his girlfriend.
  • Hounddog (2007)
    Review preview for Hounddog

    This slice of southern gothic is deep fried in almost every cliche you could mention from the last 50 years - and served up with an unfortunate side order of snakes.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Drama about a girl growing up in the Deep South.
  • The Indian Runner (1991)
    Review preview for The Indian Runner

    Penn had a definite feel for the incidental details and the everyday rhythms of small-town life.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    A State patrolman tries to keep his troubled Vietnam veteran brother on the straight and narrow...
  • Mother And Child (2009)
    Review preview for Mother And Child

    Bening’s performance is a triumph over leaden writing.

    Sophie Monks Kaufman · 2 out of 5
    Tale of three women and maternal love.
  • The Odd Life Of Timothy Green (2012)
    Review preview for The Odd Life Of Timothy Green

    Likely to please younger audiences who will find the simple, fairy story style arc comfortingly familiar and the central protagonist quirkily relatable.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A magical little boy changes the lives of a childless couple and the community they live in.
  • Proof Of Life (2000)
    Review preview for Proof Of Life

    The hostage hideout is uncomfortably authentic and Morse gives a performance of genuine strength.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    An Aussie negotiator tries to broker the release of a kidnapped engineer.
  • The Rock (1996)
    Review preview for The Rock

    There are so many distractions and superfluous plot points that the only way Bay can compensate is to turn every scene into an MTV blur.

    Gator MacReady · 2.5 out of 5
    FBI boffin Nicolas Cage and grizzled lifer Sean Connery save Alcatraz from wacko army general.
  • Seaquest DSV: Series 1 (1993)
    Review preview for Seaquest DSV: Series 1

    A soggy experience.

    Andrea Mullaney · 2 out of 5
    The missions of an underwater team, with added dolphin.
  • World War Z (2013)
    Review preview for World War Z

    "Mother Nature is a serial killer," someone says, and it doesn't sound cheesy because the action smashes through the walls of scepticism and highjacks your logical mind

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A UN employee travels the world trying to find a solution to a zombie pandemic.

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