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  • The Apprentice (2024)
    Review preview for The Apprentice

    It finds room for those who despise weakness, and are weaker for it, and is stronger because of it.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
  • The Book Of Eli (2010)
    Review preview for The Book Of Eli

    The set-pieces are sporadic – but always exciting and kinetic.

    Stephen Carty · 3.5 out of 5
    In a post-nuclear landscape, one man guards the world's last bible.
  • The Burning Season (2023)
    Review preview for The Burning Season

    This feels, at times, like a kind of anti-cinema. It offers its share of sensation and big emotion, but elevates the ordinary, the joys of a more mundane life.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of an affair unfolds backwards over a series of summers to reveal long-held secrets.
  • Drive (2011)
    Review preview for Drive

    Drive is cool. Really cool. In fact this will probably be the coolest film you will see this year.

    Owen Van Spall · 4.5 out of 5
    A stuntman who moonlights as a wheelman finds he is the target of a hit.
  • The Glass Castle (2017)
    Review preview for The Glass Castle

    What makes this better than a smack in the face with a wet cliche is Woody Harrelson's performance

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with an artist mother and an alcoholic father.
  • Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005)
    Review preview for Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

    A saccharine mess, bereft of wit, originality or purpose.

    Andrew Robertson · 1 out of 5
    An mysterious creature is threatened by oil workers looking for lost machinery in the remote lake where it lives.
  • The Nut Job (2014)
    Review preview for The Nut Job

    Like the best of the Pixar and Looney Tunes output, Lepeniotis doesn't dwell on his visual gags waiting for each one to get a laugh, instead frequently throwing them out one after the other to good culmulative effect.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Animation about an exiled squirrel and his plan to raid a nut store.
  • Pompeii (2014)
    Review preview for Pompeii

    The film is about death, whether in the arena, or out

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A volcanic rebuke of Rome's corrupt society? Or an effects driven disaster movie with a romantic sub plot and gladiatorial massacres?
  • Room (2015)
    Review preview for Room

    A visually inventive, genuinely moving, yet understated drama of captivity and hope, which also sings a quiet tribute to the power of creative maternal impulses.

    Owen Van Spall · 5 out of 5
    A five-year-old discovers there may be more to the world than the single room in which he has been raised.
  • See For Me (2021)
    Review preview for See For Me

    A beautifully self-contained, self-sufficient little film.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A legally blind housesitter turns to a mobile app service for help when the remote mansion she’s looking after is targeted by a gang of thieves.

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