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The Bystanders (2022)

Review preview for The Bystanders

A small scale triumph.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5

Invisible immortals watch over their human subjects and intervene in (or interfere with) their lives.
A Call To Spy (2019)

Review preview for A Call To Spy

Pilcher strikes a good balance between interpersonal drama, nerve-racking action scenes and focus on the cat and mouse game that the women are caught up in.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5

A drama inspired by true stories of women recruited as spies during the Second World War, who were sent to occupied France to disrupt the Nazis.
Down Terrace (2009)

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By mixing the situations of a crime drama with dysfunctional family dynamics, the everyday becomes accentuated, meaning that outbreaks of violence are absurdly comic but still retain a nasty edge.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5

Killers consider retribution round the kitchen sink.
The Heiress (2021)

Review preview for The Heiress

At the heart of it all is Nergaard's performance, and this is where the film finds its power.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5

After two sisters move into an inherited house, one of them begins to sense a threatening supernatural presence.
The Inbetweeners: Series 1 (2008)

Review preview for The Inbetweeners: Series 1

The Inbetweeners is indisputably a very funny experience, with killer lines and creative insults coming thick and fast.

Stephen Carty · 4.5 out of 5

The exploits of four friends, who are socially only marginally above what one of them calls "the freaks", are presented as they grow from their late teen years into adults and as they go on their quest, usually unsuccessfully, for such grown up things as beer and sex.
The Inbetweeners: Series 2 (2009)

Review preview for The Inbetweeners: Series 2

The Inbetweeners' real strength (and reason for watching) remains the accuracy with which it paints teenage existence in British suburbia.

Stephen Carty · 4.5 out of 5

The exploits of four friends, who are socially only marginally above what one of them calls "the freaks", are presented as they grow from their late teen years into adults and as they go on their quest, usually unsuccessfully, for such grown up things as beer and sex.
The Inbetweeners: Series 3 (2010)

Review preview for The Inbetweeners: Series 3

Slightly more broad and over-the-top than before, but still well observed and one of the sharpest, funniest comedies on the box.

Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5

The exploits of four friends, who are socially only marginally above what one of them calls "the freaks", are presented as they grow from their late teen years into adults and as they go on their quest, usually unsuccessfully, for such grown up things as beer and sex.
Job Street (2004)

Review preview for Job Street

Cleverly shot, with good use of cinematography, the action is neatly framed and the story hard hitting and poignant.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5

A day in the life of disenfranchised migrants.
Mrs Lowry & Son (2019)

Review preview for Mrs Lowry & Son

This is very much an actors' film and the two leads are both on superb form.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5

Story of the artist and his bed-ridden, controlling mother.