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  • Annihilation (2018)
    Review preview for Annihilation

    Garland takes us into a world as beautiful as it is alien, a dazzling cinematic landscape that deserves to be seen on the big screen.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A biologist joins a team exploring a quarantine zone after her husband goes missing there, and finds something very different from what she expected.
  • The Anniversary Party (2001)
    Review preview for The Anniversary Party

    Enjoyable and witty, all the more impressive when you discover that it took only 19 days to shoot.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A couple's anniversary proves to be a test of their fidelity as well as of friendship.
  • Anomalisa (2015)
    Review preview for Anomalisa

    His - and Johnson's - real triumph in Anomalisa comes in the smaller gestures and human moments

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Stop-motion tale of a man who struggles to connect with other people.
  • eXistenZ (1999)
    Review preview for eXistenZ

    Cronenberg has created a dazzling star in the futuristic psycho-thriller firmament.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Virtual reality gets messy!
  • Flesh & Blood (1985)
    Review preview for Flesh & Blood

    On the level of grand gestures and mythic narrative, the film is spectacular. In other ways, it struggles a little.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A band of mercenaries rape and pillage their way through 16th century Italy, with the Black Death at their heels.
  • Good Time (2017)
    Review preview for Good Time

    The Safdies invest their own knowledge of their home turf to give it all a frenetic and authentic sense of urgency.

    Richard Mowe · 3.5 out of 5
    Crime caper sees a bank robber try to evade capture.
  • Greenberg (2010)
    Review preview for Greenberg

    Baumbach has now reached a point where he is parodying himself, yet he still doesn't seem to have found his own voice.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A carpenter recently released from an asylum struggles over a possible relationship whilst staying in his brother's house in Los Angeles.
  • The Hateful Eight (2015)
    Review preview for The Hateful Eight

    Tarantino flexes his trash thrashed imagination and vomits forth the guts of a serial killer's darkest desires

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
  • The Hitcher (1986)
    Review preview for The Hitcher

    For all that the Hitcher is an ambiguous horror film it is also a spectacular piece of Eighties action cinema.

    Donald Munro · 4.5 out of 5
    A thriller about a hitch-hiker with murderous intent.
  • In The Cut (2003)
    Review preview for In The Cut

    As raw as an open wound.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A serial killer at large in the strip clubs off Broadway terrorises a collector of language.
  • The Jacket (2005)
    Review preview for The Jacket

    Brody's concentrated performance, as a man who may, or may not, be going out of his mind, creates a tense, claustrophobic atmosphere that pervades the film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A casualty of war returns to a world that appears strange and unreal.
  • The King Is Alive (2000)
    Review preview for The King Is Alive

    The script, which was partly improvised, is unsentimental and fierce.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    The social order starts to break down after bus travellers become stranded.
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
    Review preview for Last Exit to Brooklyn

    Though unrelentingly bleak, Last Exit to Brooklyn presents a fascinating slice of American history.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Love and self-destruction amid union corruption in Fifties New York.
  • Margot At The Wedding (2007)
    Review preview for Margot At The Wedding

    Margot ought to be a plum rôle, but Kidman withers it to a prune.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    A neurotic woman undermines her whole family and her sister's impending marriage.
  • The Machinist (2004)
    Review preview for The Machinist

    Bale's performance is superb, his devotion to the role scary.

    Josh Morrall · 4 out of 5
    Christian Bale lives in the subconscious of a mentally frail insomniac.
  • Palindromes (2004)
    Review preview for Palindromes

    Confusion reigns for the first hour, followed by a lingering sense of unease

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    The strange tale of an abused teenage girl, played by a cast of eight.
  • Poolman (2023)
    Review preview for Poolman

    The only mystery is why anyone would stay to the end of Poolman.

    Donald Munro · 1 out of 5
    A hapless dreamer and would-be philosopher spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block in sunny LA. When he uncovers a water heist, he does what he can to protect the city.
  • Possessor (2020)
    Review preview for Possessor

    Cronenberg is most certainly David’s son, and while he’d probably prefers to avoid comparisons, his proclivity towards jarring imagery and shocking material instantly calls to mind his father's work.

    Jeremy Mathews · 3.5 out of 5
    Vasya is a corporate agent who uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies, driving them to commit assassinations for the benefit of the company. When something goes wrong on a routine job, she finds herself trapped inside a man whose identity threatens to obliterate her own.
  • Rag Tale (2005)
    Review preview for Rag Tale

    After 15 minutes of fast zooms, sliced cuts, topsy pans and turvy close ups you want to be sick... after 40 minutes, you have eaten your words and are beginning to think this is original and thrilling.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Poisonous cynicism and manipulative scheming at the heart of a national tabloid.
  • Road To Perdition (2002)
    Review preview for Road To Perdition

    Sam Mendes creates a mood of menace by avoiding obligatory violence.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Tom Hanks is a hitman for the Chicago mob in 1931, who goes on the run with his 12-year-old son.
  • Sharp Stick (2022)
    Review preview for Sharp Stick

    Dunham is constantly looking for laughs and does deliver quite a few, but you never fully believe these people are living in the real world.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A naive 26-year-old finds herself on a sexual odyssey.
  • Synecdoche, New York (2008)
    Review preview for Synecdoche, New York

    Mainstream audiences may hate and critics may debate, but Synecdoche is a work of unmitigated, undisciplined genius.

    The Exile · 5 out of 5
    The story of a theatre director's drive to produce his masterwork.
  • Washington Square (1997)
    Review preview for Washington Square

    Holland's evocation of the period is lovingly detailed, with exquisite camera work by Jerzy Zielinski.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    A doctor tries to stand in the way of his daughter's romance.
  • Welcome To Me (2014)
    Review preview for Welcome To Me

    There have been bad films. There have been terrible films. And then there's Welcome To Me

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own TV talk show.

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