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  • Meal Deal (2012)
    Review preview for Meal Deal

    Martin McCormick's turn is a good one, Jackson's various interactions as he does his rounds a series of vignettes - life at the sharp end.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Jackson works long hours selling cocaine, trying to escape from poverty.
  • Sweet Sixteen (2002)
    Review preview for Sweet Sixteen

    Laverty's script is so bare of sentiment, it hurts.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Scottish teenager becomes drug dealer to give his mum, who is in jail, a proper home.
  • Valhalla Rising (2009)
    Review preview for Valhalla Rising

    The difficulty with sustaining intensity for any period of time is that it so easily becomes ridiculous, but there is absolutely nothing in this brutal, at times violent film that will have you laughing.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Early medieval epic about a mute warrior who escapes his captors with the slave who tends him.

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