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  • American Gangster (2007)
    Review preview for American Gangster

    Scott has gone back to source, bringing viewers the most refined product available.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    The true story of the rise of an American mobster.
  • End Of Sentence (2019)
    Review preview for End Of Sentence

    All praise to the acting here, as each star deliver characters with depth and meaning, without the encumbrance of lengthy self-exposition.

    Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
    A widower embarks on a journey to fulfil his wife's wish to have her ashes scattered in Ireland, taking his estranged son along for the trip.
  • Everest (2015)
    Review preview for Everest

    The grandeur and beauty of the place is set against figures of climbers, like black ants, across a white wilderness

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A climbing expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm.
  • Hardball (2001)
    Review preview for Hardball

    An exercise in sentimentality.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Keanu Reeves coaches baseball to deprived black kids in Chicago.
  • Identity (2003)
    Review preview for Identity

    A fascinating psychological thriller.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A bunch of strangers who seek refuge in a run-down motel find themselves the target of a killer.
  • Lincoln (2012)
    Review preview for Lincoln

    Spielberg, as he is very good at, goes out on a limb to walk a tightrope of his own making between melodrama and sinewy storytelling.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    The president's battles in the Civil War and within his own cabinet.
  • Me And You And Everyone We Know (2005)
    Review preview for Me And You And Everyone We Know

    This film is a labour of love for July, and it definitely shows.

    The Dude · 4 out of 5
    A snapshot of a family and its struggle to adjust to a new life.
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
    Review preview for Martha Marcy May Marlene

    As a moody, atmospheric study of paranoia, it is hard to beat.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A woman is traumatised after fleeing a cult.
  • The Perfect Storm (2000)
    Review preview for The Perfect Storm

    There is no room for quirky individualism, as writer Bill Wittliff shovels on the sentimentality. Even the dialogue is highlighted with italics.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Soggy disaster flick.
  • The Sessions (2012)
    Review preview for The Sessions

    It takes messy and unresolved dynamics and finds their poetry. Can’t say sexier than that.

    Sophie Monks Kaufman · 4.5 out of 5
    A man in an iron lung hires a sex surrogate to help him lose his virginity.
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
    Review preview for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    Fortunately, McDormand never lets Mildred's hold on us slip, balancing the conundrum of a woman who is simultaneously a mum, who likes a beer and a game of pool, and a Rambo-style avenging angel.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A grieving mother takes on a town's police chief after the murder of her daughter goes unsolved.
  • Winter's Bone (2010)
    Review preview for Winter's Bone

    An unrelenting, yet utterly mesmerising cinematic vision.

    Nick Da Costa · 5 out of 5
    An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
  • Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Review preview for Wristcutters: A Love Story

    Wristcutters isn’t a story of despair but of hope, moving on, and, yes, love.

    Daniel Hooper · 4 out of 5
    A young man kills himself and awakens in a land where everything is "just a little bit worse".
  • Zombie Strippers! (2008)
    Review preview for Zombie Strippers!

    Not quite enough braaaaaains to go round.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    You need a one liner after reading the title?

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