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  • The Banishing (2020)
    Review preview for The Banishing

    McKenna-Bruce is good in a role that first requires her to restrain her emotions and then pulls her in several directions at once.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    The story of the most haunted house in England. In the 1930s, a young reverend, his wife and daughter move into a manor with a horrifying secret.
  • Evelyn (2002)
    Review preview for Evelyn

    Courtroom drama dressed up to look like something more.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Pierce Brosnan plays a working-class Dubliner who changed the law in Ireland.
  • Ghosted (2011)
    Review preview for Ghosted

    If the truth of Her Majesty's Pleasure is a kick in the balls, or a blade in the back, you may be excused for thinking that you have been here before.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Think Alan Clarke's Scum, updated for 2011.
  • Hardware (1990)
    Review preview for Hardware

    There is plenty of gore to enjoy and the visuals are captivating in an artsy cyberpunk kind of way.

    Darren Amner · 3 out of 5
    British futuristic sci-fi horror on a tight budget.
  • The Hot Potato (2011)
    Review preview for The Hot Potato

    Ray Winstone has always been at his best in comedy, and here he excels.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The acquisition of a valuable lump of uranium leads two east end chancers into a series of scrapes.
  • Lassie (2005)
    Review preview for Lassie

    Plotless, fluffy, pseudo-sentimental rubbish.

    Kotleta · 1 out of 5
    The world's most famous dog has an adventure in wartime Britain.
  • Pilgrimage (2017)
    Review preview for Pilgrimage

    Muldowney takes things seriously, with cinematographer Tom Comerford using the lowering skies and boggy heaviness to his advantage

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    In 13th-century Ireland, a cadre of monks travel through the war-torn countryside on a mission to bring their land’s most sacred relic to Rome.
  • Puckoon (2002)
    Review preview for Puckoon

    here is a feeling throughout that everyone is playing to their stereotypes.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The Irish boundary commission divides a village with comic consequences.
  • Scintilla (2014)
    Review preview for Scintilla

    Scintilla is minimal, efficient, entertaining.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Trouble lurks in an underground military research facility.
  • Sliding Doors (1997)
    Review preview for Sliding Doors

    e concept is inspired and the realisation, with its complexities and double takes and juxtapositions, never feels forced.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Alternate universe split comedy drama, featuring splendid performances.

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