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  • 16 Years Of Alcohol (2003)
    Review preview for 16 Years Of Alcohol

    Richard Jobson's debut is full of abiding images that linger long after the final credits.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Life and times of a budding drunk in the mean streets of Edinburgh.
  • All Over Brazil (2003)
    Review preview for All Over Brazil

    A thoroughly enjoyable exploration of family life, without mum, and neatly encapsulates an era.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    World Cup summer of 1974 and all 13-year-old Steve wants to be is a glam rocker.
  • Billy & Zorba (1999)
    Review preview for Billy & Zorba

    Brian Kirk's film has a sentimental heart and a lovely performance from 11-year-old Iain de Caestecker, as Billy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The friendship between a suicidal fisherman and a young boy.
  • Filth (2013)
    Review preview for Filth

    It's sad to see McAvoy's raving, raging talent gone to waste on something so patchy.

    David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
    An amoral, junkie police officer will do anything - and break any rule - to win back the affections of his wife and child.
  • In Fear (2013)
    Review preview for In Fear

    Lovering has crafted an old-fashioned thriller for those who like to be gripped without gore and which offers enough surprise and inventiveness to suggest that he has a career beckoning beyond the confines of television.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A couple get lost in the countryside and as night falls they realise they may not be alone.
  • Lost River (2014)
    Review preview for Lost River

    The plot quickly runs out of narrative drive, preferring to deluge the senses with symbolic and surrealistic images.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.
  • Not Another Happy Ending (2013)
    Review preview for Not Another Happy Ending

    If there is one positive thing that can be said about the film it is that it lives up to the promise of its title.

    Robert Munro · 1 out of 5
    A publisher tries to improve an author's creativity by making her life less happy.
  • Shell (2012)
    Review preview for Shell

    Isolation rules and comfort is cold in Scott Graham's gripping and emotionally tense feature debut.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An intense story of two people who struggle to keep their longings for freedom under control, set against a beautiful and remote landscape that reflects their isolation back at them.
  • Up There (2011)
    Review preview for Up There

    While Up There is jam-packed with dry Scottish humour and absurd situations brought on by the dead's physical handicap, the film never fails to engage with its audience on a more philosophical level.

    Lindis Kipp · 5 out of 5
    A dead man stuck in a dead end job welcoming new arrivals to the afterlife fears things will get even worse when he accidentally loses a soul.

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