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  • Bringing Down The House (2003)
    Steve Martin is a tax lawyer and Queen Latifah a convicted bank robber in comedy sparring match.
  • Curious George (2006)
    Review preview for Curious George

    [Curious George] just goes out to entertain and make people feel happy.

    Harry Lockhart · 4 out of 5
    The animated adventures of a man in a yellow hat and a magic monkey from Africa.
  • A Place For Annie (1993)
    Review preview for A Place For Annie

    When you realise that this is based on a true story, and that the spread of HIV and AIDS has meant that similar stories are all too frequent, it becomes almost offensive that they've made such a bad film.

    Keith Dudhnath · 1 out of 5
    A custody battle for an HIV positive baby is only the beginning.
  • The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
    Review preview for The Spiderwick Chronicles

    One of the best children's films for years.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Moving to a creepy old house after their parents split up, three children encounter a dangerous but enchanting supernatural world.
  • Tea With Mussolini (1999)
    Review preview for Tea With Mussolini

    The location is breathtaking, the period absorbing, the story heartwarming and the acting so fine you want to leap from your seat and shout something inappropriate, such as 'Encore!'

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Coming of age story about an illegitimate child.
  • Tom's Midnight Garden (1999)
    Review preview for Tom's Midnight Garden

    Writer/director Willard Carroll manages to convey the supernatural rather well in this low-budget British film, but lacks the imagination to make anything of it.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Boy plays with ghosts in the garden of a Victorian mansion.

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