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  • Coup! (2023)
    Review preview for Coup!

    How it feels to take credit for something you haven’t done is one of the questions Coup! invites us to contemplate.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    Sheltering from the 1918 Spanish Flu at their seaside estate, a progressive journalist and his socialite wife take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook... and soon find themselves facing mutiny.
  • Elysium (2013)
    Review preview for Elysium

    It's DoA meets The Wizard Of Oz with Matt Damon as an irradiated Dorothy.

    Tony Sullivan · 3 out of 5
    In a futuristic world, a man who is confined to the slums of earth, finds the space station retreat of the rich offers his only hope of survival.
  • Escape Plan (2013)
    Review preview for Escape Plan

    Despite admirably attempting to appear otherwise, Miles Chaplin and Jason Keller’s script is transparently stoopid, but mostly in the best way.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    When a security expert is framed and trapped in the world's most secure prison, he will need all his skills - and more - to make his escape.
  • Iron Man (2008)
    Review preview for Iron Man

    Big, dumb, explosive and, most importantly, fun.

    Daniel Hooper · 4 out of 5
    A wealthy industrialist fights evil with a newly invented super-suit.
  • Lamya's Poem (2021)
    Review preview for Lamya's Poem

    Lamya’s poem balances an awareness of the lasting human potential for violence with a celebration of resistance and of striving toward higher things.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A girl living in war-torn Aleppo forges a connection across time with the poet Rumi as he flees the Mongols.

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