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  • 28 Weeks Later (2007)
    Review preview for 28 Weeks Later

    28 Weeks Later... makes for scorching horror. Like the original, it offers a perfect blend of well-drawn characters, political allegory, grand guignol, flesh-crawling tension and very fast-moving zombies.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    Six months after the events of 28 Days Later a US-led force begins a tentative attempt to repopulate Britain.
  • The Art Of Self-Defense (2019)
    Review preview for The Art Of Self-Defense

    For those who get into the rhythm of it, this is an instant classic.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    After being beaten up on the street, an accountant joins a karate studio to learn how to protect himself.
  • Castle In The Ground (2019)
    Review preview for Castle In The Ground

    The film struggles to create the emotional resonance needed to connect with vulnerable and troubled characters.

    John-Anthony Disotto · 2.5 out of 5
    A former carer devastated by the loss of his mother finds relief in her painkillers and bonds with a local junkie as his former friends move away to attend college.
  • The Chronology Of Water (2025)
    Review preview for The Chronology Of Water

    While tolerance levels for this kind of self-consciously arty style will vary, it is hard to fault the fizzing ambition and high-voltage energy that K-Stew and her team bring to the party.

    Stephen Dalton · 3.5 out of 5
    A troubled young woman escapes an abusive childhood, family tragedy and addiction issues by slowly finding her creative voice as a writer.
  • Cracks (2009)
    Review preview for Cracks

    Juno Temple, building on the early promise she showed in Atonement, is superb as Di, fragile and sympathetic even at her most unpleasant.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A tale of misguided love and obssession in an isolated girls' school in the Thirties.
  • Centurion (2010)
    Review preview for Centurion

    Centurion cannot escape the huge shadow cast by previous swords-and-sandals epics.

    Owen Van Spall · 2 out of 5
    A group of Romans struggle for survival after a guerilla attack.
  • The Father (2020)
    Review preview for The Father

    Zeller elegantly and scarily fuses dream logic with markers of past trauma.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Anthony is 80 years old. He lives alone in London and refuses the caregivers that his daughter tries to impose upon him. Yet his need for help is becoming more pressing.
  • French Exit (2020)
    Review preview for French Exit

    Pfeiffer’s delivery is fantastically inscrutable.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A Manhattan socialite whose inheritance is running out moves to a borrowed apartment in Paris with her son and cat.
  • Fright Night (2011)
    Review preview for Fright Night

    What's noticeable about Gillespie's version is how little really has to change to make it work.

    Owen Van Spall · 3.5 out of 5
    Is horror movie addict Charley Brewster’s suave new nextdoor neighbour Jerry Dandridge really an evil vampire responsible for a string of recent deaths?
  • 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.
  • Frank & Lola (2016)
    Review preview for Frank & Lola

    Some of the plot twists strain believability but Ross has a tight hold of the film's emotional drivers, mixing moods like a heady and dangerous cocktail so that a disturbing tension builds.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A chef finds himself becoming obsessed by jealousy after a tearful admission from his latest love.
  • Green Room (2015)
    Review preview for Green Room

    Less psychological and more formulaic than his previous feature, this is still relentlessly entertaining.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A young punk band is trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling on a murder committed by neo-Nazis.
  • Hedda (2025)
    Review preview for Hedda

    DaCosta has managed to create something which feels acutely contemporary and fresh.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Three women striving for freedom in different ways collide at a party in a contemporary reworking of Henrik Ibsen's classic play.
  • 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
  • Knight Of Cups (2015)
    Review preview for Knight Of Cups

    Malick and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, if nothing else, deliver stunningly beautiful vistas and backdrops for his narratives and characters, yet like the characters, there seems to be something empty at its core.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    Targeting the world of showbusiness.
  • A Late Quartet (2012)
    Review preview for A Late Quartet

    Once it has established itself it unfolds with an almost metronomic inevitability, but for all that, for all that, it still satisfies.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    When a cellist discovers that he has Parkinson's disease, the other members of his successful string quartet find their lives unravelling.
  • The Look Of Love (2013)
    Review preview for The Look Of Love

    This is a serious and entertaining character study - stripping down the lives of Soho and Raymond - that has the looks and acting talent to win over a crowd.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Biopic of porn king Paul Raymond.
  • Need For Speed (2014)
    Review preview for Need For Speed

    If the smell of exhaust nauseates you and the sight of skinny grown boys going all the way with macho machines makes you want to take up cycling, stand well back

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A street racer from upstate New York drives to California to compete against the man who sent him to jail.
  • She's Funny That Way (2014)
    Review preview for She's Funny That Way

    The cast are terrific, and the comic set pieces are handled with precision and impeccable timing, even if not all of the jokes hit home.

    Robert Munro · 3.5 out of 5
    A married director falls for a prostitute-turned-actress.
  • Sweet Virginia (2017)
    Review preview for Sweet Virginia

    Sweet Virginia is a simple story told very, very well.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A burglary-homicide rattles the residents of a small Alaska town.
  • The Teacher (2023)
    Review preview for The Teacher

    A Teacher is not the most finely crafted film, but it is a cri de cœur.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker and his emotional support for one of his students.
  • Vivarium (2019)
    Review preview for Vivarium

    Lorcan Finnegan never allows us to lose sight of the absurdity of the situation, nor of the real life absurdities that it points up.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    In search of a starter home, a young couple follow a mysterious estate agent and get trapped in a strange housing development.

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