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  • The Instinct (2024)
    Review preview for The Instinct

    Pereira and Cayo could probably carry a “two-hander” – which The Instinct is – with no trouble, but only if they had something real in their characters to work with

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 2 out of 5
    A home invasion thriller featuring a dog trainer trying to modify a human's brain.
  • Kidnapped (2010)
    Review preview for Kidnapped

    A lethal little stab at a well-worn template.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    Criminals subject a family to a night of terror.
  • Mataharis (2007)
    Review preview for Mataharis

    A through-line in the work of writer-director Icíar Bollaín is her interest in representing a variety of female experience, in both private and professional spaces.

    Rebecca Naughten · 3.5 out of 5
    Three female detectives find a series of cases combine with personal upheavals to give them new perspectives on their own lives as well as those of their clients.
  • The Orphanage (2007)
    Review preview for The Orphanage

    Sanchez and Bayona never lose sight of the requirements of the genre, providing plenty in the way of seat-gripping tension and finding suitable shocks in the everyday.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Ghost story about a family who live in an orphanage.

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