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  • Almost Famous (2000)
    Review preview for Almost Famous

    Captures the seriousness and the sweetness perfectly

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Autobiography of a suburban Californian boy's rites of passage.
  • Battle Scars (2015)
    Review preview for Battle Scars

    It's presented in a way that many veterans facing similar problems will find easy to relate to.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A former soldier traumatised by war meets a dangerous woman.
  • Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009)
    Review preview for Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans

    No film by Herzog has ever been so defiantly mainstream – and yet at the same time this remains one of the director's craziest, most outlandish affairs.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    Re-imagining of Abel Ferrara's film, starring Nic Cage as a cop in post-Katrina New Orleans, whose moral compass slips after he is put in charge of a murder investigation.
  • Don't Come Knocking (2005)
    Nostalgia for the old times as age resurrects emotions and lost lovers for a legendary film star.
  • Personal Velocity (2002)
    Review preview for Personal Velocity

    Miller's imagination appears steadfastly original. Her use of flashback memory, still photography and thought bites has a freshness that defies innocence.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Three short stories about women and their yearning for freedom.
  • Trespassers (2018)
    Review preview for Trespassers

    Despite the clichés that follow, director Orson Oblowitz does a good job of keeping viewers guessing, with some of the film's most shocking incidents coming out of the blue.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two couples staying in a remote house have enough discomfort in one another's company before a stranger arrives on the scene - and that's just the beginning of their problems.
  • What Is It? (2005)
    Review preview for What Is It?

    It isn't the blatant affronts - the aspects aimed to shock - that upset me, but the fact that the film lacks heart.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Avant garde examination of a lonely life.
  • Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
    Review preview for Wild Tigers I Have Known

    Rather too rarefied to begin with, Archer’s profound story soon shapes up into a reasonably gripping potboiler, beautifully shot and acutely tense.

    Richard Mellor · 3 out of 5
    Sexual awakening of a teenager who tries to engage with the object of his affections by posing as a woman on the phone.
  • The Waterboy (1998)
    Review preview for The Waterboy

    Making fun of learning difficulties is not nice. Mommy says so.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Moron waterboy becomes high-school football's brightest star.

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