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  • Dreamgirls (2006)
    Review preview for Dreamgirls

    Dreamgirls has the passion, the moves, the rhythm and the sex appeal, as well as the curse and casualties of fame.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A fictionalised, all singing, all dancing biopic of The Supremes and the rise of Motown Records.
  • Fragments (2008)
    Review preview for Fragments

    This is an ensemble performance in the psychopathology of feeling over-dramatically sorry for oneself.

    Chris · 2 out of 5
    A group of people experience crises in their lives after surviving a shooting in a diner.
  • Respect (2021)
    Review preview for Respect

    For all the talent on display, it feels more like a TV special.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A biopic about Aretha Franklin.
  • Sex And The City (2008)
    Review preview for Sex And The City

    By being successfully chic and delightfully superficial, the characters distract us from the wedding bells goal and the way their lives really stereotype them.

    Chris · 2.5 out of 5
    The sassy lassies from New York are back.
  • Sing (2016)
    Review preview for Sing

    If this sounds like a corn fed carbon copy of a Debbie Reynolds standard, it's not

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Fast talking koala bear with a great line in bull and a cool idea to save his theatre from bankruptcy organises a talent contest with hilarious, disaster prone results
  • The Secret Life Of Bees (2008)
    Review preview for The Secret Life Of Bees

    It’s all very Oprah chick flick, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a real soul.

    Mike Davies · 3 out of 5
    A young girl, escaping from her tyrannical father in Civil Rights era South Carolina, finds a very different surrogate family.

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