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  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
    Review preview for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    Scorsese's direction isn't showy but he keeps his camera fluid, giving scenes a sense of movement even when the characters are static.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A widowed single mum goes on a road trip with her son in a bid to reignite her singing career.
  • Arthur And The Invisibles (2006)
    Review preview for Arthur And The Invisibles

    Besson breaks all the rules and doesn’t get away with it.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    An English boy in America seeks the help of miniature medieval Smurflings to save his Gran from being evicted.
  • Bad Lieutenant (1992)
    Review preview for Bad Lieutenant

    Neither director nor star ever lose sight of a simple compassion that insists that no one, as long as they retain even the faintest glimmer of self-knowledge, is beyond hope.

    Themroc · 4.5 out of 5
    A corrupt police lieutenant goes from bad to worse.
  • Be Cool (2005)
    Review preview for Be Cool

    The only flair exhibited in Be Cool belongs to the set designer.

    The Exile · 2 out of 5
    Sequel to Get Shorty moves into the music business.
  • Death Watch (1980)
    Review preview for Death Watch

    Bertrand Tavernier’s 1980 curio Death Watch remains a chilly and enigmatic film, one which is hard to love but not hard to admire.

    Robert Munro · 4 out of 5
    A man with a camera implanted in his brain is commissioned to film a documentary about a terminally ill woman's last days.
  • The Duellists (1977)
    Review preview for The Duellists

    It's difficult to make an epic film on a small budget and even Scott's striking talent is never quite able to keep pace with his ambition.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Two French army officers engage in a series of duels through the first half of the 19th Century.
  • The Grey Zone (2001)
    Review preview for The Grey Zone

    It delivers every experience I treasure in great drama.

    Scott Macdonald · 4.5 out of 5
    A group of Jews working to support the mechanisms of the Nazi death camps ask themselves how far they will go to survive.
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
    Review preview for The Grand Budapest Hotel

    An emotionally engaging tale that sucks you in with its gentle humour and melancholy.

    Max Crawford · 4.5 out of 5
    The adventures of a concierge and a lobby boy who becomes his friend.
  • Holy Smoke (1999)
    Review preview for Holy Smoke

    Jane Campion sets herself high standards... To say that Holy Smoke feels less of a whole than her previous work is not to dismiss it.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A man who reprogrammes cult victims meets his match in an Aussie from an ashram.
  • The Irishman (2019)
    Review preview for The Irishman

    Scorsese shoots at what is truly important in life and does so, miraculously, by putting the spotlight on organised crime

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Story of the union official with mob ties, Frank Sheeran, and the part he claims to have played in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
  • Life On Mars US: Season One (2008)
    Review preview for Life On Mars US: Season One

    Inferior to the original in practically every way.

    Stephen Carty · 2 out of 5
    US version of the retro UK cop show about a copper stranded in the past.
  • Lansky (2021)
    Review preview for Lansky

    Eytan Rockaway balances on a thin grey line between black and white, truth and lie, and between good and evil.

    Mateusz Tarwacki · 4 out of 5
    A dramatisation of what happened when a legendary gangster asked a writer to pen his biography.
  • Madame (2017)
    Review preview for Madame

    The script is cleverly done, the key relationships well and economically drawn; and while this is clearly comedy, it does not pull its punches.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    A wealthy American persuades her Spanish maid to pretend to be a noblewoman in order to make up the numbers at dinner, only to have an English aristocrat fall in love with her.
  • Mean Streets (1973)
    Review preview for Mean Streets

    A powerful experience, brimming with raw talent.

    Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5
    Trouble brews for a smalltime hood in Little Italy.
  • Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
    Review preview for Moonrise Kingdom

    The perfect summer movie for the eternally 12 who like to travel in style.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Two children make a pact and run off, prompting the local community to go on the hunt for them.
  • National Treasure (2004)
    Review preview for National Treasure

    National Treasure is just plain boring. There is no mystery, or sense of discovery.

    Gator MacReady · 2 out of 5
    Treaure hunt for kids and soft-centred adults who like watching Nicolas Cage sleep walking.
  • National Treasure: Book Of Secrets (2007)
    Review preview for National Treasure: Book Of Secrets

    With an unchallenging plot, some interesting facts thrown in for history fans, and likable characters, this is an unpretentious, entertaining film which adults as well as kids can enjoy.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A treasure hunter pursues a series of clues in an attempt to clear the name of a famous ancestor.
  • One Last Dance (2005)
    Review preview for One Last Dance

    One Last Dance tries to be too clever for its own good, attempting to explore a mixture of themes that don’t blend together well.

    Darren Amner · 2 out of 5
    An assassin hunts a child-kidnapper.
  • The Painted Bird (2019)
    Review preview for The Painted Bird

    Smutný gives us faces that will stories even when they're still, the weight of long experience etched into every line.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A lone Jewish boy has to fend for himself in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe.
  • The Piano (1993)
    Review preview for The Piano

    Hunter delivers a riveting central performance, her silence speaking for a myriad women whose stories have been overlooked by history.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A mute woman in an arranged marriage makes a dangerous bargain in an attempt to retrieve her stranded piano.
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
    Review preview for Pulp Fiction

    Excitement shivers through each scene with quirky, individual peculiarity.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Killers and junkies interact and outeract in a merry-go-mayhem ensemble of violent eccentricity.
  • Rio, I Love You (2014)
    Review preview for Rio, I Love You

    It's so scattershot that one finds oneself inventing titles for the 'stories' within the anthology.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    A series of short films set in the Brazilian metropolis.
  • Red Dragon (2002)
    Review preview for Red Dragon

    Norton holds the film together. He is such an unselfconscious, natural actor. Fiennes gives it welly.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Remake of Manhunter, in which Hannibal Lecter gives advice to FBI agent on serial killer.
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992)
    Review preview for Reservoir Dogs

    Tarantino's talent for dialogue is what catapults Dogs into instant-classic status.

    Gary Duncan · 4 out of 5
    Quentin Tarantino’s ultra-cool reworking of the tired old heist genre.
  • Taking Sides (2001)
    Review preview for Taking Sides

    While admiring the motives for resurrecting the Furtwangler case, it is difficult to feel sympathy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An American Major interrogates the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1945.
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
    Review preview for Taxi Driver

    This is an extraordinary film. De Niro in the central role delivers one of those powerhouse performances that simply blows the audience away.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A former soldier struggles to find direction and grows dangerously angry on the streets of New York.
  • Thelma And Louise (1991)
    Review preview for Thelma And Louise

    The fact that this film still gets people talking, and arguing, nearly 20 years on, is surely an argument for its quality and relevance.

    Jeff Robson · 4 out of 5
    Two women go on the run when a road-trip vacation goes tragically wrong...
  • U-571 (2000)
    Review preview for U-571

    The acting depicts fear and determination - no shades of emotion, no humour.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    American sailors attempt to capture a code machine from a German U-Boat.
  • Who's That Knocking At My Door (1967)
    Review preview for Who's That Knocking At My Door

    Inevitably, not all of this works, but there is rarely a dull moment.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Snapshot of the life of a young man in 60s New York.
  • Youth (2015)
    Review preview for Youth

    The trappings and style more than make up for any lack of substance.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A composer and a film director staying in an Alpine hotel find themselves under unexpected pressure.

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