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  • Animal Attraction (2001)
    Review preview for Animal Attraction

    As a romantic comedy, this slips into the smile zone easier than you might expect.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Ashley Judd gets dumped by Greg Kinnear, so she takes revenge.
  • Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
    Review preview for Brooklyn's Finest

    Has a brooding and moody power that makes up for what it lacks in originality.

    Nick Da Costa · 3.5 out of 5
    Trouble brews for three New York cops.
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
    Review preview for Drop Dead Gorgeous

    There are too many clashes of style, as if rookie director Michael Patrick Jann has thrown everything into the pot and stirred.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Over-the-top parody of US beauty pageants.
  • Down By Law (1986)
    Three oddball prisoners in a New Orleans jail escape and run wild in the country.
  • Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)
    Review preview for Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

    Gilliam uses voice over (too much?) to give a taste of the Hunter S style and help explain what on earth is going on.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The psychadellic exploits of a lawyer and Journalist in the city of excess.
  • Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
    Review preview for Ocean's Thirteen

    If ever a film seemed aimed squarely at a family matinee audience, this is it.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    The team undertake another heist.
  • Palindromes (2004)
    Review preview for Palindromes

    Confusion reigns for the first hour, followed by a lingering sense of unease

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    The strange tale of an abused teenage girl, played by a cast of eight.
  • Sea Of Love (1989)
    Review preview for Sea Of Love

    What the film does well is to provide an air of sheer unpredictability.

    James Benefield · 3.5 out of 5
    A detective hunting a serial killer pursues a suspect by dating her, but finds himself falling in love.
  • She Hate Me (2004)
    Review preview for She Hate Me

    Me hate it.

    David Haviland · 1 out of 5
    Sacked biotech whistleblower starts a business inpregnating lesbians who want babies.

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