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  • Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
    Review preview for Hillbilly Elegy

    Recycled, repetitive and dull, Hillbilly Elegy strives for sincerity but lacks sufficient conviction to be either meaningful or entertaining.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
  • A House Of Dynamite (2025)
    Review preview for A House Of Dynamite

    In A House Of Dynamite the uncertainties are propulsive, what we learn unsettling. Each tick of the clock reorients our understanding of the same events.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
  • Ithaca (2015)
    Review preview for Ithaca

    Ryan is never less than sincere but fails to penetrate the heart of the matter.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Story of a teenager who delivers telegrams during the Second World War.
  • The Kings Of Summer (2013)
    Review preview for The Kings Of Summer

    A sweet and relatable film with an evocative setting, ultimately very hard to dislike.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    Three teenagers decide to build a fort and live wild.
  • Super 8 (2011)
    Review preview for Super 8

    More nervous children (and adults) would be well advised to stay away. Everybody else should go and see it as soon as possible.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A train-wreck leads to an encroaching mystery.

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