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  • Ad Astra (2019)
    Review preview for Ad Astra

    Gray's film is so visually stunning in places, you'll wish that Roy would pipe down a bit and let you enjoy it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An astronaut travels to the outer edge of the solar system in a bid to find his missing father and ensure the survival of the planet.
  • An American Haunting (2005)
    Review preview for An American Haunting

    So flagrantly derivative are its set-pieces that it is a struggle to find anything original in the film at all.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    A 19th century Tennessee ghost story, "based on true events"
  • Ask The Dust (2006)
    The love affair between a budding Italian-American writer and a Mexican waitress during The Great Depression.
  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992)
    Review preview for Buffy The Vampire Slayer

    There are some killer one-liners to enjoy here and lots of great one-off gags interjected in what is, to be fair, a very silly story.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The original stake-wielding cheerleader.
  • The Champions: The Complete Series Special Edition (1968)
    Review preview for The Champions: The Complete Series Special Edition

    Excels in not taking itself too seriously while offering a refreshingly imaginative collection of adventures.

    Merlin Harries · 4 out of 5
    Sixties series mixing spy and sci-fi gets all-singing, all-dancing release.
  • Cold Mountain (2003)
    Epic, romantic journey of a Confederate deserter during the last year of the American civil war.
  • Don't Look Now (1973)
    Review preview for Don't Look Now

    All of this visual and intellectual discourse is tied together with two excellent central performances.

    James Benefield · 5 out of 5
    A couple who have lost their child go to Venice to recover, but the husband is haunted by visions of a small figure in a red coat.
  • The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
    Review preview for The Eagle Has Landed

    Caine's presence makes the difference between entertaining nonsense and a rattling good yarn.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Michael Caine leads German commando raid to kidnap Churchill from a sleepy English village.
  • Fellini's Casanova (1976)
    Review preview for Fellini's Casanova

    Cruelly dismissed by critics in 1976, the film is as rich in visual imagery as any of Fellini's extravaganzas.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The imagined vanities, conquests, travels and conceits of a richly attired sexual adventurer.
  • Fellini: I'm A Born Liar (2001)
    Documentary of a final interview with Federico Fellini, plus rare footage.
  • Fallen (1998)
    Review preview for Fallen

    An ambitious plot implodes in the detail.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A cop investigates after a spate of killings similar to those committed by a man whose execution he has witnessed.
  • Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
    Review preview for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

    It is the closest thing to an artistic masterpiece in the field of computer generated optical illusion.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A select group of scientist soldiers search for earth spirit in devasted America after alien colonisation.
  • Fool's Gold (2008)
    Review preview for Fool's Gold

    Ray Winstone really should have known better, though his accent – American Deep South via London East End – is possibly the funniest thing in the film.

    Val Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    An estranged couple rock the boat while treasure hunting.
  • Forsaken (2015)
    Review preview for Forsaken

    The film is enjoyable enough, but unfortunately Kiefer Sutherland is not Alan Ladd.

    Robert Munro · 3 out of 5
    A disillusioned former gunslinger tries to reconcile with his father but finds their frontier town terrorised by a brutal gang.
  • Frankenstein (2004)
    Review preview for Frankenstein

    Alec Newman is wooden to the extreme as Victor Frankenstein.

    Martin Drury · 2 out of 5
    Melodramatic retelling of Mary Shelley's novel.
  • The Hunger Games (2012)
    Review preview for The Hunger Games

    Ross avoids the hyperbole of gore and mayhem to keep the emotions of what is happening so near the bone it hurts.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Set in a dystopian future, a young boy and girl must fight to the death on live television.
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
    Review preview for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

    It's easy to forgive the fact that nothing's happening when it's not happening around Jennifer Lawrence.

    Max Crawford · 2.5 out of 5
    The stakes are raised for survivor Katniss as she is forced join a champion of champions tournament.
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
    Review preview for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

    Jennifer Lawrence's expressions stretch from worried to confused

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Now the games are over, it's civil war in Part 1 of the final chapter
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
    Review preview for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

    The plot stutters into absurdity

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    The rebels escort Katniss Everdeen into the Capital to assassinate President Snow, or die trying.
  • Instinct (1998)
    Review preview for Instinct

    Gooding and Hopkins give it the works... pity the script lets them down.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A psychiatric student tries to find out what makes a killer ape expert tick.
  • The Italian Job (2003)
    Review preview for The Italian Job

    A standard formulaic thriller, dependent upon technological gizmos, buddy-buddy performances and a totally unbelievable storyline.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    American remake of the classic Sixties Brit heist flick, involving gold ingots and Mini Coopers
  • Jappeloup (2013)
    Review preview for Jappeloup

    Even viewers who have never cared much about show jumping, should be drawn in by how the movie deals with decision making, risk taking, self doubt, and family obligations

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    The story of a man's faith in a horse that could jump.
  • JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass (2021)
    Review preview for JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass

    It’s quite a maze to pick your way through as a viewer and Stone does his best ease the path.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey through recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy.
  • Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
    Review preview for Johnny Got His Gun

    That the film is so close to parody is partly a mark of its sincerity.

    David Haviland · 1.5 out of 5
    A soldier rendered limbless and almost senseless by war, remembers moments of his past.
  • The Leisure Seeker (2017)
    Review preview for The Leisure Seeker

    The plot can sink without trace, which it does, because this is all about the stars

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    An old couple take a road trip despite his Alzheimer's and her inability to stop talking
  • The Mechanic (2011)
    Review preview for The Mechanic

    Watchable and competent, if ultimately unsatisfying, actioner.

    Stephen Carty · 3 out of 5
    When a hitman mentors the son of a man he assassinated.
  • Miranda's Victim (2023)
    Review preview for Miranda's Victim

    Makes an important contribution to the conversation around sexual violence.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of the young woman caught in the middle when her rapist was released due to police failings in the case which led to the creation of Miranda rights.
  • Murder By Decree (1979)
    Review preview for Murder By Decree

    Unfortunately, the over complicated plot and plodding pace make this chapter of the world famous sleuth rather dull and frustrating.

    Paul Logan · 2 out of 5
    Sherlock Holmes sets out to capture Jack The Ripper.
  • National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
    Review preview for National Lampoon's Animal House

    'Pedestrian' is too racy a word to describe it.

    Martin Gray · 1 out of 5
    Grandaddy of teen gross-out comedies takes a chainsaw to college frat house conformity.
  • Panic (2000)
    Review preview for Panic

    Watching Panic is like tracing your finger around the blueprint of a roller coaster ride, instead of actually riding it.

    Trash Fletcher · 2.5 out of 5
    A hitman with a mid-life crisis meets a girl more messed up than him.
  • Pride & Prejudice (2005)
    Review preview for Pride & Prejudice

    This is the first time in ages - perhaps ever - that the hot-blooded delights of a country house ball have been shown to be fun.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    The camera loves Keira as Jane Austen's famous and fabulous writing flows to life.
  • Puffball (2007)
    Review preview for Puffball

    Its conception seems stunted from the outset by an inability to engage.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Isolated in a remote farmhouse, a pregnant woman begins to feel threatened by her envious neighbours.
  • Reign Over Me (2007)
    Review preview for Reign Over Me

    Sandler turns in one of the most convincing portraits of a mentally ill person seen on our screens for years.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A man approaching a mid-life crisis has his life changed by an old friend who lost his family in the 9/11 attacks.
  • Space Cowboys (2000)
    Review preview for Space Cowboys

    A geriatric adventure yarn that creaks with rusty sentiment and is as predictable as Meg Ryan.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Ancient astronauts go back into orbit to repair Russian satellite.
  • Virus (1999)
    Review preview for Virus

    The action sweeps you away.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A ship's crew battle aliens who view humans as a disease.

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