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  • Dan In Real Life (2007)
    Review preview for Dan In Real Life

    Clings steadfastly to rom-com form.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Widower Dan meets the girl of his dreams - but she's dating his brother.
  • Edward Scissorhands (1990)
    Review preview for Edward Scissorhands

    By contrasting an artificial man with the real but unsubtly false men and women of the world and their queer existences, Burton presents satire with a dull thud.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    An intrepid Avon lady enters her local Gothic castle to find a lonely young home-made man with scissors for hands.
  • A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
    Review preview for A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints

    What rescues A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints from bland conventionality is Montiel's bravura approach to direction.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    A man haunted by a summer from his past, returns to his old stamping ground to confront old ghosts.
  • Hannah And Her Sisters (1986)
    Review preview for Hannah And Her Sisters

    Elegantly constructed and shot with the same apparent carelessness which turns out to be something much cleverer, Hannah And Her Sisters is a film which will take you by surprise.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A portrait of the secret turmoil and complicated lives and loves of an extended family in New York. On re-release.
  • The Horse Whisperer (1998)
    Review preview for The Horse Whisperer

    Stories as good as this are rare.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    A trainer is enlisted to heal a horse but also works magic on those around him.
  • I Care A Lot (2020)
    Review preview for I Care A Lot

    Pike won a Golden Globe for this performance and it's well deserved.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.
  • I Am Sam (2002)
    Review preview for I Am Sam

    Buttons are pushed, emotions manipulated.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Sean Penn is a mentally handicapped father, who fights for the right to keep his daughter.
  • The Lost Boys (1987)
    Review preview for The Lost Boys

    Most of those who fell for this film when it came out still love it today. There's just one problem: it really isn't very good.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Cult brat pack movie about a boy trying to save his big brother from becoming a vampire.
  • 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.
  • Practical Magic (1998)
    Review preview for Practical Magic

    The ladies act their socks off. To no avail. The plot saws itself in half... forever.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Two white witches are shackled with a curse that makes men who fall in love with them meet an untimely demise.
  • Rabbit Hole (2010)
    Review preview for Rabbit Hole

    The acting is good - particularly from Eckhart and Teller - but director John Cameron Mitchell never quite finds a way to reach beyond the boundaries of its original stage work.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Eight months after the death of their son, a couple are still trying to cope with grief.
  • Robots (2005)
    Review preview for Robots

    Robots has a glittering voice cast and astonishing CGI animation and yet is over endowed with too much of this, too much of that and too much of everything.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Animated idealism meets corporate ruthlessness in Rivet Town.
  • Sisters (2015)
    Review preview for Sisters

    Films that find alcoholism funny, encouraging the kind of behavior that would give Gramps a heart attack, are kicking at an open door

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home.
  • Synecdoche, New York (2008)
    Review preview for Synecdoche, New York

    Mainstream audiences may hate and critics may debate, but Synecdoche is a work of unmitigated, undisciplined genius.

    The Exile · 5 out of 5
    The story of a theatre director's drive to produce his masterwork.

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