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  • Becoming Jane (2007)
    Review preview for Becoming Jane

    A wispy romance as ripe as a Regency virgin and twice as fanciful.

    The Exile · 3.5 out of 5
    A young Jane Austen learns the rules of the marriage game before her pen displays a pride in its prejudice.
  • Brazil (1985)
    Review preview for Brazil

    With dazzling visual effects and stunning sets, Brazil is a film that you should see on the biggest screen possible.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A typo leads to an innocent man being confused with a revolutionary, plunging the life of a small time bureaucrat into chaos.
  • Dark City (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City

    What [director Proyas] does here is juggle genres and lop the dead cells from the brains of old cliches.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Film noir plotting meets a fiendish science fiction underworld in an extravagant fantasy.
  • Dark City: Director's Cut (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City: Director's Cut

    A stylish and engrossing mystery - an immature, yet energetic explosion of storytelling ideas.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    Extravagant sci-fi fantasy about a hunted man struggling with his memory gets a directorial polish.
  • From Hell (2001)
    Review preview for From Hell

    Judging by the violence of the crimes, the killer cannot be taken seriously when finally he is exposed.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Johnny Depp and Robbie Coltrane investigate Jack The Ripper murders in Victorian London.
  • The King And I (1999)
    Review preview for The King And I

    Absence of innovation will please traditionalists.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Animated retelling of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
  • Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
    Review preview for Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

    Every theatrical device in the book is here and everything that makes a film interesting is not.

    David Stanners · 2 out of 5
    Tom Stoppard directs his first play about minor characters from Hamlet.

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