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  • Asylum (2005)
    Review preview for Asylum

    So studiously edgy are the performances that one is never quite sure who harbours the darkest pathology.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Infidelity at an institution for the criminally insane.
  • Breathe (2017)
    Review preview for Breathe

    The film reeks of privilege, which should not matter, but it does

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    The true story of courage under profound difficulties faced by Robin and Diana Cavendish.
  • Burke And Hare (2010)
    Review preview for Burke And Hare

    While much of the comedy might have garnered a few laughs as part of a Two Ronnies' skit back in the Seventies, here it feels dated, predictable and bland.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Story of the infamous Edinburgh-based murderers.
  • The Commander (2003)
    In the shadow of Prime Suspect, a new female bobby takes charge of the Serious Crime Group.
  • Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)
    Review preview for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

    Recursive nostalgia is no substitute for quality, and it drowns everything else in tepidity.

    Andrew Robertson · 1.5 out of 5
    When Mary finds herself in a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
  • The Emperor's New Clothes (2002)
    Review preview for The Emperor's New Clothes

    The film continually and cleverly explores the line between fiction and reality, falsehood and authenticity.

    Monica Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Napoleon Bonaparte escapes his island exile to discover a simpler life in Paris.
  • Iris (2001)
    Review preview for Iris

    Eyre does nothing with the camera except place it in line with an actor.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Biopic of the novelist who succumbed to Alzheimer's.
  • The Monuments Men (2014)
    Review preview for The Monuments Men

    The film becomes a mixture of Dad's Army and The Cockleshell Heroes (without the cockleshells).

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A Second World War platoon are given the job of rescuing artwork form Nazi thieves.
  • Notting Hill (1999)
    Review preview for Notting Hill

    Being English and Hugh and frightfully-actually, the jokes have a cringe factor above the blush line.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A world famous film star falls for a bookseller.
  • Paddington (2014)
    Review preview for Paddington

    Paddington is irresistible, funny and smartly constructed with a disarmingly big heart.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A small bear from darkest Peru tries to adjust to life in London.
  • Paddington 2 (2017)
    Review preview for Paddington 2

    This is exactly what a sequel should be, respectful, goose bumpy and warm hearted

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Paddington gets into a scrape over his Aunt Lucy's birthday present.
  • Stage Beauty (2004)
    Review preview for Stage Beauty

    It feels alienated by the nature of its concerns, as if locked in a fancy dress trunk.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    To be or not to be a woman on the London stage, circa Pepys, Charles II and 1660.
  • Viceroy's House (2017)
    Review preview for Viceroy's House

    Such an important story cannot be squeezed into 106 minutes. The politics are complex and the religious conflict on a Syrian scale of horror

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.

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