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  • Antlers (2021)
    Review preview for Antlers

    Variously Antlers lets what might have been subtext break the surface but in doing so undermines subtlety and overmines tapped out seams.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    In an isolated Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become embroiled with her enigmatic student, whose dark secrets lead to terrifying encounters with a legendary ancestral creature who came before them.
  • Battleship (2012)
    Review preview for Battleship

    If you’re looking for explosive, mind-boggling special-effects driven set-pieces coupled with broodingly patriotic one-liners from Neeson et al, you won’t be disappointed.

    Merlin Harries · 3.5 out of 5
    A film based on the board game (yes board game) of the same name, in which a fleet of ships battle an unknown enemy.
  • Bugonia (2025)
    Review preview for Bugonia

    While some directors spend their lives crafting love letters to the worlds they create, Yorgos Lanthimos has developed a fine line in cinematic hate mail to humanity.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
  • Black Mass (2015)
    Review preview for Black Mass

    It's true what they say about violence. Too much and you become immune.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The true story of violent criminal turned FBI informant Whitey Bulger in Boston.
  • Digger (2026)
    Review preview for Digger

    Digger is not a film that invites fence sitting.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
  • The Homesman (2014)
    Review preview for The Homesman

    Jones spares none of the gory details in his depiction of the way the West really was.

    Richard Mowe · 3.5 out of 5
    Two pioneers unite to escort three mentally ill women from Nebraska to Iowa.
  • The Irishman (2019)
    Review preview for The Irishman

    Scorsese shoots at what is truly important in life and does so, miraculously, by putting the spotlight on organised crime

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Story of the union official with mob ties, Frank Sheeran, and the part he claims to have played in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
  • Judas And The Black Messiah (2021)
    Review preview for Judas And The Black Messiah

    Plemons’s performance captures the unease and guilt Mitchell feels, while reminding us that the agent is also putting on a performance during his meetings with O’Neal.

    Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
    The story of FBI informant William O’Neal, who infiltrated the Illinois Black Panther party when J Edgar Hoover feared charismatic leader Chairman Fred Hampton would emerge as a Black Messiah.
  • Killers Of The Flower Moon (2023)
    Review preview for Killers Of The Flower Moon

    It is Scorsese at his, one hesitates to say peak, but absolute.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major FBI investigation involving J Edgar Hoover.
  • Kinds Of Kindness (2024)
    Review preview for Kinds Of Kindness

    The entire cast, especially Stone, who has admitted that Lanthimos is a muse, enter into the grand guignol spirit of the proceedings with gusto.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
  • Like Mike (2002)
    Review preview for Like Mike

    The Hollywood take on magic sporting footwear is the cinematic equivalent of fast food - easily digestible, too sweet, utterly predictable, well packaged, bland and bad for you.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A boy finds a pair of trainers that give him the power to play basketball like Michael Jordan.
  • Observe and Report (2009)
    Review preview for Observe and Report

    I found myself half-laughing at moments of acidic and keenly observed characterisation before being blasted with horrific crassness and vicious violence.

    Scott Macdonald · 2 out of 5
    Mall cop comes off his meds, and the world had better watch out!
  • The Power Of The Dog (2021)
    Review preview for The Power Of The Dog

    Campion treats the material with such well-mannered reverence that you begin to wish that not just the characters, but she too, would loosen up a bit.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A widow and her son are tormented by her new husband’s sullen and bullying brother.
  • The Program (2015)
    Review preview for The Program

    A clear, clean picture without tricks

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A journalist tries to prove Lance Armstrong is a cheat.

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