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  • Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015)
    Review preview for Avengers: Age Of Ultron

    Save your grey matter for coordinating the movement of your hand to your mouth, or your jaw to the sticky cinema floor.

    Max Crawford · 3.5 out of 5
    Tony Stark and his team take on rogue AI Ultron.
  • Avengers: Endgame (2019)
    Review preview for Avengers: Endgame

    Directors Joe and Anthony Russo use the length to explore more than one significant theme in depth and to shift tone markedly from hour to hour.

    Jane Fae · 4.5 out of 5
    The remaining Avengers take a final stand.
  • Blinded By The Light (2019)
    Review preview for Blinded By The Light

    The film has a personal touch and an honesty that surpasses clever writing and naturalistic acting.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    In 1987 during the austere days of Thatcher's Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
  • Brideshead Revisited (2008)
    Review preview for Brideshead Revisited

    A jewel unpolished is still a jewel, and there are treasures here for those patient enough to seek them out.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A man reflects on his conflicting passions for a brother and sister whose lives were dominated by Catholic guilt.
  • Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
    Review preview for Captain America: The First Avenger

    It feels like you're watching the trailer for the much better movie you wish they'd made.

    Max Crawford · 2.5 out of 5
    After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals.
  • Cassandra's Dream (2007)
    Review preview for Cassandra's Dream

    Allen's most morally challenging work since Crimes And Misdemeanors, this takes what is in essence a simple story and finds depths within it which will continue to haunt the viewer long after the closing credits have rolled.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Two brothers in need of money are confronted with a terrible proposition.
  • Cinderella (2015)
    Review preview for Cinderella

    The reason Branagh's adaptation of the Charles Perrault tale is a success, is that it sticks fully to the formula of the story and doesn't try to do anything irritatingly postmodern with it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Live-action retelling of the classic fairy tale.
  • The Duchess (2008)
    Review preview for The Duchess

    Ultimately, the film suffers from the same problem as the marriage it depicts: a lack of sizzling passion.

    Maria Realf · 3.5 out of 5
    The true story of an aristocrat who came into conflict with the political and moral system of her day.
  • I, Anna (2012)
    Review preview for I, Anna

    Given the Rampling family pedigree there are certain expectations of quality, and Southcombe largely lives up to the promise with this sharply stylish crime mystery that gives plenty of space for Rampling to flex her acting muscles.

    Owen Van Spall · 3.5 out of 5
    A detective falls for a woman who may be mixed up in a murder case.
  • Jimi: All Is By My Side (2013)
    Review preview for Jimi: All Is By My Side

    The film fails to fill those spaces between speculation and that other thing - truth

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The opening chapters of The Jimi Hendrix Story in London
  • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

    If anything the potential dangers of AI are even more in the news now than when the film was shot, making it feel bang up to date.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
  • Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

    It’s certainly all very timely and apposite

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Our lives are the sum of our choices.
  • The Prisoner (2009)
    Review preview for The Prisoner

    Dragging at times and lacking both humour and heart, it rarely intrigues in the way McGoohan's often loopy version sometimes did.

    Stephen Carty · 2.5 out of 5
    Modern remake of the Sixties classic, sees a surveillance expert finds himself stranded in a "the village".
  • The Sweeney (2012)
    Review preview for The Sweeney

    The perfunctory plot is much less of a serious crime than The Sweeney's worst offences, however - that it feels dated and, for all its surface gruffness, pretty daft.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    The Flying Squad investigate after a robbery turns sour.

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