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  • Ask The Dust (2006)
    The love affair between a budding Italian-American writer and a Mexican waitress during The Great Depression.
  • Cold Mountain (2003)
    Epic, romantic journey of a Confederate deserter during the last year of the American civil war.
  • David Copperfield (2000)
    Review preview for David Copperfield

    The adaptation is heavy-handed and crushes the life out of the story.

    Andrea Mullaney · 2 out of 5
    Sharp-looking but dull American adaptation of the Dickens classic.
  • Gosford Park (2001)
    Review preview for Gosford Park

    Altman's great triumph is in galvanising the energies of exceptional actors into a living, breathing entity.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Murder and mystery at a party in a stately home.
  • Last Chance Harvey (2008)
    Review preview for Last Chance Harvey

    If you're looking for something to while away a weekday evening or waste a carefree afternoon, you're in for a treat.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An awkward American visiting London for his daughter's wedding falls head over heels for a younger woman.
  • Let Him Have It (1991)
    Review preview for Let Him Have It

    Christopher Ecclestone has rarely been better .

    James Benefield · 4 out of 5
    True story of Derek Bentley, sentenced to death for a bungled robbery.
  • Paddington 2 (2017)
    Review preview for Paddington 2

    This is exactly what a sequel should be, respectful, goose bumpy and warm hearted

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Paddington gets into a scrape over his Aunt Lucy's birthday present.
  • Robin Hood (2010)
    Review preview for Robin Hood

    The film is at its strongest in the scenes between Crowe and Blanchett, as Marion - both no-nonsense in attitude - as they spar verbally and bring some much-needed humour to the discourse.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Robin goes back to his roots before the hood.
  • Scenes Of A Sexual Nature (2006)
    Review preview for Scenes Of A Sexual Nature

    Light and dissatisfying.

    Paul Griffiths · 2.5 out of 5
    Everyone's at it on Hampstead Heath.
  • Suite Française (2014)
    Review preview for Suite Française

    The film looks right but feels strangely familiar

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    During the early years of German occupation of France, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier, a French villager, and Bruno von Falk, a German officer.
  • Vanity Fair (2004)
    Review preview for Vanity Fair

    The film looks magnificent and the performances, particularly from Witherspoon and Atkins, are exemplary.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The gallant adventures of a social mountaineer in the drawing rooms of 18th century England.
  • What A Girl Wants (2003)
    Review preview for What A Girl Wants

    Dennie Gordon's 2003 version resurrects the worst aspects of English class snobbery in a film that makes you squirm with embarrassment.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Fiesty New York teenage girl comes to London to find her titled missing dad.
  • Wit (2001)
    Review preview for Wit

    Well made and with an incredibly powerful central performance.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 4 out of 5
    University don fights cancer by treating it as she does the sonnets of John Donne.
  • Women Talking Dirty (1999)
    Review preview for Women Talking Dirty

    For once in her life Bonham Carter doesn't act everyone off the screen. In fact, she's awful.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Helena Bonham Carter and Gina McGee are best friends in Edinburgh, being messed up by men.
  • Wicked Little Letters (2023)
    Review preview for Wicked Little Letters

    A curious case of real-life poison pen letters is given an oddly cosy retelling in this well-polished if tonally uneven drama.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    When people in Littlehampton start receiving scandalous and obscene letters, suspicion immediately falls on fiery Rose, who might lose the custody of her daughter. A group of women set out to solve the mystery.

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