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  • Dorian Gray (2009)
    Review preview for Dorian Gray

    To pull this off requires a strong script and intelligent direction, and, surprisingly, this film mostly succeeds, despite occasional moments of ham-fistedness.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A man has eternal youth... but what about the portrait in his attic?
  • The Eagle (2011)
    Review preview for The Eagle

    Macdonald proceeds to let his narrative grind to a halt from which it never recovers.

    David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
    A Roman soldier tries to retrieve his legion's lost emblem from the Pictish hordes.
  • If Only (1998)
    Review preview for If Only

    The characters are thinly drawn.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A cheating lover gets a second chance with his partner after meeting a magical barmaid.
  • Iona (2015)
    Review preview for Iona

    Director Graham is fantastic at allowing the underlying relational strain to simmer for most of the film, in quiet, unspoken Scots Calvinist passive-aggression.

    Robert Munro · 4.5 out of 5
    A woman and her teenage son return to the place she was born to seek refuge from a violent gang.
  • It's All About Love (2003)
    Review preview for It's All About Love

    This is a shivery thriller, made better by a disturbing lack of information.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    An estranged husband attempts to save the life of his wife in New York, 2021.
  • Lawless Heart (2002)
    Review preview for Lawless Heart

    Writer-directors Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger... have made a film which successfully manages to dramatise the subtleties of modern relationships

    Trinity · 4 out of 5
    Relationship ensemble drama, as lives intersect following a death.
  • Lipstick On Your Collar (1993)
    Review preview for Lipstick On Your Collar

    Potter succeeds here in providing a truly imaginative and artistically inspired piece of television and, while the series eludes the tangible success of his previous work, it embodies some of his best writing and brilliantly creative verve.

    Merlin Harries · 4 out of 5
    A Whitehall intelligence office clerk finds the Suez crisis can't compete with dreams of romance.
  • Orphans (1997)
    Review preview for Orphans

    This is Catholic working class life beyond the limits of restraint where the concept of social order collapses and acts of individual kindness come as a surprise.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Jet black comedy about family tribulations in the run up to a funeral.
  • The Salvation (2014)
    Review preview for The Salvation

    War by any other name

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A man who kills his family's murderer faces the wrath of a violent gang - with nobody to help him.
  • This Year's Love (1999)
    Review preview for This Year's Love

    The acting has a richness that sparkles.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Musical beds in Camden Town.

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