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  • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
    Review preview for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

    More than anything else it's Fiennes, manager of the marrow-hall, that makes The Bone Temple worth seeing.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Another entry in the epidemic franchise. As a young man is inducted into a gang, a doctor makes a discovery that could change the world.
  • 300: Rise Of An Empire (2014)
    Review preview for 300: Rise Of An Empire

    David vs Goliath: The Rematch.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
  • '71 (2014)
    Review preview for '71

    Burke is interested in people not politics, keeping the focus on the sudden outbreaks of inhumanity and humanity in the madness, expertly crafting his thriller from the swirling fog of war.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A young British soldier is accidentally left behind by his unit on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971.
  • Eden Lake (2008)
    Review preview for Eden Lake

    Not so very far from where we all live today.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A young couple spending a romantic weekend in the woods fall foul of an angry group of teenagers.
  • Ferrari (2023)
    Review preview for Ferrari

    The car racing scenes are the best in the history of cinema.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    It's the summer of 1957 and Ferrari is in crisis, both in his business and personal life. He decides to take a gamble on a race, the Mille Miglia.
  • Ink (2026)
    Review preview for Ink

    Danny Boyle brings his customary energy to James Graham’s adaptation of his own stage play, which flies along quicker than paper through a printing press.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Drama charting Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of The Sun newspaper and its upturning of the landscape under editor Larry Lamb in 1969.
  • The Imposters (1998)
    Out-of-work actors pose as ship's stewards after accidentally stowing away.
  • Knight And Day (2010)
    Review preview for Knight And Day

    It all feels too professional, too clean, too choreographed.

    Paul Griffiths · 2 out of 5
    A car mechanic finds herself on the run with an AWOL Superspy.
  • L'Avventura (1960)
    Review preview for L'Avventura

    Antonioni's direction is subtle and his argument much more than left-wing hand-wringing.

    Ben Sillis · 4.5 out of 5
    After a woman disappears her lover and best friend search for her, only to find they are falling for one another.
  • Money Monster (2016)
    Review preview for Money Monster

    An efficiently diverting thriller.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A financial TV host and his producer are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio.
  • Requiem For A Dream (2000)
    Review preview for Requiem For A Dream

    What Aronofsky has done with Selby's script is remarkable. With the use of split screen, hip-hop montage and every trick in the cinematographer's bag, he has forged a work of considerable significance.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Study of dysfunction, addiction, loneliness and love amongst four characters in Coney Island
  • Sinners (2025)
    Review preview for Sinners

    Wall to wall quality.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
  • The Somnambulists (2011)
    Review preview for The Somnambulists

    The Somnambulists is a powerful, unapologetically political contribution to the discourse about this country's questionable manoeuvrings abroad since 9/11, lest we forget.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Richard Jobson's committed, imaginative response to our collective apathy to the war in Iraq.
  • Starred Up (2013)
    Review preview for Starred Up

    Mackenzie shows everyone, inmates and guards alike, to be trapped in a corrupted, corrupting system that resists all change.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A young offender is relocated to the adult prison where his father is locked up.
  • Tower Block (2012)
    Review preview for Tower Block

    Skins star Jack O'Connell burns up the screen as an initially reprehensible chav terror, all wide-boy grimaces and in-your-face intensity, his gradual evolution into honorable pack-leader etched with care and nuance where it could have been clumsy and cli

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    The life and times of the last occupants of Tower Block 31.
  • This Is England (2006)
    Review preview for This Is England

    This is England is, quite simply, the best British film for years. If you're underage, sneak into this film.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A young boy adopted by a group of skinheads struggles to find his own identity in a world dominated by racism and war. Now out to own on two-disc DVD.
  • Weekender (2011)
    Review preview for Weekender

    The shame is that there’s the potential for a good film in here.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2 out of 5
    A wild, kaleidoscopic romp through the rave culture of the 1990s.

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