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  • 13 Going On 30 (2004)
    Review preview for 13 Going On 30

    The sheer predictability of the plot means it doesn't really stand up to the scrutiny of anyone older than 15.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Age swop rom-com, as a feisty 13-year-old high school girl goes Big and wakes up as a man-eating magazine executive.
  • Alias: Season 4 (2004)
    The continuing story of the beautiful spy and her lovable, detestable, sexy and deceitful friends.
  • Alias: Season One (2001)
    Review preview for Alias: Season One

    Alias is intelligently-written, notably complex and deserves to be more well-known that it is.

    Stephen Carty · 4.5 out of 5
    A college grad black-ops spy, becomes a double agent to bring down corruption.
  • Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
    Review preview for Dallas Buyers Club

    McConaughey's performance is a tour de force.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    When a fast-living heterosexual redneck develops AIDS, he refuses to take it lying down, and in his struggle makes some unlikely friends.
  • Danny Collins (2015)
    Review preview for Danny Collins

    This isn't a lecture about acting your age, nor is it an advert for Viagra. It's far more sentimental.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    An ageing rock star decides to mend his decadent ways and seek out the son he has never met
  • Daredevil (2002)
    Review preview for Daredevil

    Comicbooks are not about credibility, but what's going on here is far harder to accept than Clark Kent wearing funny underpants.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Ben Affleck is a blind superhero, known as "the man without fear", who leaps off buildings.
  • Daredevil - Director's Cut (2003)
    Review preview for Daredevil - Director's Cut

    Anonymously directed, mechanical and unsurprising and is aimed at the indiscriminate lowest common denominator.

    Gator MacReady · 2.5 out of 5
    A longer version, with additional sub plots, to the blind superhero movie.
  • Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
    Review preview for Dude, Where's My Car?

    Dude, what's the point of this movie?

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Teenage wasters... and a car.
  • Elektra (2005)
    Resurrected superheroine fights X-Men clones with the power of slow motion and baby swords.
  • Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past (2009)
    Review preview for Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past

    There's some good material about how getting hurt changes you as a person, but the problem is its too often trapped underneath overly-trite sentiment and the need to please impatient teen girls.

    Stephen Carty · 3 out of 5
    An eternal bachelor finds himself haunted by romance past, present and future.
  • The Invention Of Lying (2009)
    Review preview for The Invention Of Lying

    A gentle, thoughtful, genuinely entertaining film with endearing characters and real ideas.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    In a world where there is no concept of deceit, one man's life is transformed when he figures out how to lie - but will it bring him what he really wants?
  • Juno (2007)
    Review preview for Juno

    The proverbial buzz surrounding Juno is, like, totally justified.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    A teenager finds her own way of dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
  • The Kingdom (2007)
    Review preview for The Kingdom

    Although at times it verges on turning into CSI Riyadh, The Kingdom is ultimately much smarter and better informed than most of its ilk.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An FBI team investigates after a US compound is attacked by terrorists in Riyadh.
  • Love, Simon (2018)
    Review preview for Love, Simon

    Nice

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A young teenager worries that his family will discover he's gay before he's ready, and finds himself falling in love with a similarly closeted classmate he talks to online, without either of them knowing who the other is.
  • Mr Magoo (1997)
    Review preview for Mr Magoo

    Squeezing a titter out of this proves as difficult as squeezing Kelly [Lynch] into her clothes.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    The myopic millionnaire gets a big-screen outing.
  • The Odd Life Of Timothy Green (2012)
    Review preview for The Odd Life Of Timothy Green

    Likely to please younger audiences who will find the simple, fairy story style arc comfortingly familiar and the central protagonist quirkily relatable.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A magical little boy changes the lives of a childless couple and the community they live in.
  • Pearl Harbor (2001)
    Review preview for Pearl Harbor

    Not so much From Here To Eternity as From Here To This Time Next Week, which is a terrible waste.

    Symon Parsons · 3 out of 5
    The three-hour, $139 million take on the historical event that launched the USA into the Second World War.
  • Valentine's Day (2010)
    Review preview for Valentine's Day

    It's not long before it all becomes delightfully self-mocking.

    Val Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    An ensemble drama looks at how different individuals and couples cope with the pressure of Valentine's Day.
  • Wakefield (2016)
    Review preview for Wakefield

    Jennifer Garner is very good, conveying through her facial expressions what many of the actors around her feel compelled to try and communicate as if they were in a silent film.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A man decides to disappear and live secretly in an outbuilding, observing his family from a distance.
  • 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.
  • Wonder Park (2019)
    Review preview for Wonder Park

    Attempting the fusion of psychological damage with cartoon sentimentality results in a mixture of what might have been and what doesn’t work any more.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A girl with a sick mum tries to fix a hidden amusement park.

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