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  • The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
    Review preview for The Adjustment Bureau

    There's a lot of good work here, decent performances from Blunt, Damon and Mackie, some gorgeous locations and some neat production design, but it doesn't quite work.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    When a man meets a beautiful woman for the second time, the plans the mysterious Adjustment Bureau have for his life go awry.
  • Bad Company (2002)
    Review preview for Bad Company

    The jokes dry up, because Rock is a one-gag guy

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock conduct a sting on Russian Mafia in Prague.
  • Bluebird (2012)
    Review preview for Bluebird

    The story-telling is low key and muted, as befits the characters, but the unremitting sense of melancholia weighs heavily on the film and the viewer.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A small incident spirals into tragedy.
  • Churchill (2017)
    Review preview for Churchill

    The film breaks the rule that says Winston saved us, he cannot be criticised

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    The British prime minister in the run-up to D-Day.
  • Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
    A "modern" love story against the backdrop of revolutionary Cuba.
  • Every Act Of Life (2017)
    Review preview for Every Act Of Life

    Jeff Kaufman's documentary explores the intersection of the personal, the political and the artistic with a focus on understanding what the playwright always advanced as the most important of human endeavours: communication.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A portrait of four-time Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally’s ground-breaking, six-decade career in the theatre, fight for LGBTQ rights, and triumph over addiction.
  • Flags Of Our Fathers (2006)
    Review preview for Flags Of Our Fathers

    Flags Of Our Fathers does a helluva job.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    America, struggling to finance its war against Japan, needs heroes so badly that it is willing to sacrifice the truth.
  • Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House of God (2012)
    Review preview for Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House of God

    Gibney assembles interview subjects who offer a fascinating insight into how the Vatican functions behind its large exterior walls.

    Owen Van Spall · 4.5 out of 5
    Fresh scrutiny of child abuse in the Catholic Church, with deaf victims bearing witness.
  • Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
    Review preview for Mona Lisa Smile

    Mona Lisa Smile is beautifully shot and the dazzling cast is always watchable.

    David Haviland · 3 out of 5
    A progressive teacher comes to a stuffy New England college to teach art and inspire change.
  • Nuremberg (2025)
    Review preview for Nuremberg

    It relies on often clumsy exposition, a common construction of "only if X" with a cut to "X has happened" leaves one asking "why?".

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    Drama chronicles the events that brought the Nazi high command to justice following the Second World War.
  • Spotlight (2015)
    Review preview for Spotlight

    Spotlight does not fall into the trap of explanatory flashbacks. We do not need to see the protagonists' past because we can tell so much from what they are wearing.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    The true story of how The Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child abuse and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese.

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