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  • An American Werewolf In London (1981)
    Review preview for An American Werewolf In London

    Landis keeps the humour dry, the speech naturalistic, yet his keen sense of the absurd provides for some laugh-out-loud moments.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Fully restored version of the werewolf classic.
  • Enys Men (2022)
    Review preview for Enys Men

    It has a Wicker Man feel but without the flamboyant histrionics

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A volunteer observing a rare wild flower finds the different worlds that have inhabited the island where she is beginning to collide.
  • Finders Keepers (2015)
    Review preview for Finders Keepers

    The film is a hodge-podge of archive clips and interview material but it just about gels and a host of smaller scale family stories round it out nicely.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A documentary about the conflict that ensued after one man unwittingly purchased another man's amputated leg in an auction.
  • The Fool Of The World And The Flying Ship (1990)
    Review preview for The Fool Of The World And The Flying Ship

    This Emmy-winning fable of piety rewarded makes a virtue of its own simplicity.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Russian fairytale about a woodcutter who wins the heart of a princess.
  • Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (2023)
    Review preview for Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism

    Alongside the extreme and dramatic aspects of this story are all sorts of insidious little details which show the harm done by this kind of thinking in day to day life.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Convinced that his wife is possessed by dark forces, a desperate husband puts his faith in the power of a pitiless self-proclaimed exorcist, who is convinced that salvation can be found only through his hands.
  • Imagining Argentina (2003)
    Review preview for Imagining Argentina

    Thompson exudes strength from start to finish.

    David Stanners · 3.5 out of 5
    A theatre director whose wife is kidnapped by the government, taps into psychic powers to try to find her.
  • The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
    Review preview for The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

    Considering the massive cast of characters and overlapping plotlines, David Edgar's adaptation is little short of a masterpiece.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Stage adaptation of the Dickens classic.
  • The Little Vampire (2000)
    Review preview for The Little Vampire

    Jonathan Lipnicki is atypical of child stars in the sense that he can be quite annoying.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    American kid in Scotland makes friends with vampire boy.
  • Macbeth (1978)
    Review preview for Macbeth

    A somewhat ponderous retelling.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Television version of the life and death of the man who would be king.
  • Metroland (1997)
    Review preview for Metroland

    There is nothing erotic about any of it and an 18 certificate seems overzealous.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The reappearance of old pal causes a man to re-evaluate his life.
  • Sabrina (1995)
    Review preview for Sabrina

    Delightful to watch.

    Gabriella Trybalska · 4 out of 5
    Two brothers fall in love with the same girl that they have known all their lives, but she only has eyes for one of them.
  • Shadowlands (1993)
    Review preview for Shadowlands

    A quiet, moving film.

    Sarah Artt · 4 out of 5
    A late flowering of romance for the dry academic who created Narnia
  • The White Countess (2005)
    Review preview for The White Countess

    A turgid, gelatinous epic that fails to find its feet until the tumultuous final reel.

    The Exile · 2 out of 5
    The tortured romance between a blind American diplomat and a taxi dancing Russian widow in Shanghai on the eve of war.

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