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  • Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
    Review preview for Alita: Battle Angel

    With its CGI clever-dickery the kick boxing is controlled and packed. T

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A woman with no memories tries to uncover the secrets of her past.
  • All The King's Men (2006)
    An ordinary man enters politics and finds himself drawn into corruption.
  • The Birth Of A Nation (2016)
    Review preview for The Birth Of A Nation

    Parker's reductive approach, more concerned with creating a hero than depicting a man, means it never achieves the impact that it ought to.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    The story of Nat Turner's slave uprising.
  • Dark Shadows (2012)
    Review preview for Dark Shadows

    Dark Shadows lacks any real drive or momentum, struggling to sink its teeth into a compelling story or plot

    Lee Griffiths · 3 out of 5
    After centuries in the grave, a vampire returns to try and sort out his dysfunctional family.
  • Dead Money (2024)
    Review preview for Dead Money

    Walpoth knows how to handle action, and there’s plenty of it here, up close and messy, characters improvising in ways that tend to test stunt teams much more than smooth martial arts moves.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    When a poker game is robbed, an ambitious young player and his girlfriend find themselves in a situation where the stakes are suddenly much higher.
  • Hypnotic (2023)
    Review preview for Hypnotic

    Amounts to a criminal thriller with extra magic

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government programme.
  • Lincoln (2012)
    Review preview for Lincoln

    Spielberg, as he is very good at, goes out on a limb to walk a tightrope of his own making between melodrama and sinewy storytelling.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    The president's battles in the Civil War and within his own cabinet.
  • Little Children (2006)
    Review preview for Little Children

    Brimming with superb performances.

    Steve Harwood · 4.5 out of 5
    The hopes, dreams and secrets of a group of young parents whose lives intersect in small-town America.
  • A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
    Review preview for A Nightmare On Elm Street

    There's crude exposition in almost every early line, read as if in a high school play rehearsal.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A dead child molester pursues teenagers through their dreams in this remake of the 1984 hit.
  • No Future (2020)
    Review preview for No Future

    Well acted and sensitively delivered, No Future is a reminder that addicts don’t exist in isolation; that their suffering, and the paucity of state services to support them.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Following the overdose of an estranged friend, recovering addict Will, still struggling with his own sobriety, returns to his hometown where he begins a troubled affair with his friend’s grieving mother.
  • RoboCop (2014)
    Review preview for RoboCop

    Ditching the satirical elements for a more straightforward sci-fi 'issues' approach, Padhila goes for a more serious minded investigation of the man-machine control conundrum.

    Owen Van Spall · 2.5 out of 5
    When a police officer is critically injured he is brought back to life as a cyborg and celebrated as the future of law enforcement.
  • Semi-Pro (2008)
    Review preview for Semi-Pro

    A strange, tepid mixture of basketball drama and comedy set in what television and dull popular culture remembers as being the 70s.

    Scott Macdonald · 2 out of 5
    Basketball comedy with a loud mouth.
  • Shutter Island (2010)
    Review preview for Shutter Island

    Even when one has a rough idea of where this mystery thriller is headed, the devil is in the detail, and each turn of the screw is handled with the sort of deft craftsmanship that becomes a pleasure unto itself.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Two US marshalls are sent to a remote island to investigate the disappearance of an inmate from a mental asylum.
  • Watchmen (2009)
    Review preview for Watchmen

    A sprawling epic of our times – and all times.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    An adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel in which self-proclaimed heroes fight for the good of humanity - or for what they interpret as such.

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