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  • Alice In Wonderland (2010)
    Review preview for Alice In Wonderland

    Wonderland? I'm afraid this Alice has gone for a Burton.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Re-imagining of Alice as a teenager.
  • Arizona Dream (1993)
    A water authority worker gets suckered into helping with his uncle's car business, with unexpected consequences.
  • Alice Through The Looking Glass (2016)
    Review preview for Alice Through The Looking Glass

    Anything can happen and nothing makes sense and reality is a word as plain as it is pointless

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Alice returns to Wonderland to save the Mad Hatter.
  • Brando (2007)
    Review preview for Brando

    As a history and celebration of Brando's life and eccentricities, it's hard to beat.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Documentary exploring the life of Marlon Brando and his enduring contribution to cinema.
  • Before Night Falls (2000)
    The life of homosexual Cuban writer, from poverty through persecution to freedom.
  • Black Mass (2015)
    Review preview for Black Mass

    It's true what they say about violence. Too much and you become immune.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The true story of violent criminal turned FBI informant Whitey Bulger in Boston.
  • Blow (2001)
    True story of smalltown boy who runs away to California to become the biggest drug dealer.
  • The Brave (1997)
    A down-on-his-luck Native American strikes a dangerous movie deal to help his family.
  • Corpse Bride (2005)
    Review preview for Corpse Bride

    Corpse Bride is even better than The Nightmare Before Christmas. It displays the imagination of a man, haunted in childhood by the Brothers Grimm, with a twisted sense of humour, steeped in 19th century romanticism.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Stop-motion love story sees a young man inadvertantly marry a dead woman.
  • Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane McGowan (2020)
    Review preview for Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane McGowan

    This is how the film plays out: loose and jumbled but still somehow telling a story. It's a style that suits its subject perfectly.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Documentary about The Pogues frontman.
  • Cry-Baby (1990)
    Review preview for Cry-Baby

    Waters can't keep a straight face. His drapes are freaks; his squares are pegs.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Musical romance charting juvenile deliquency in the Fifties.
  • Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005)
    Review preview for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

    It's a slick and intoxicating vision to say the least.

    George Williamson · 3.5 out of 5
    Extravagant remake of the Roald Dahl story about a boy who wins a Golden Ticket visit to an eccentric millionaire's sweet factory.
  • Dark Shadows (2012)
    Review preview for Dark Shadows

    Dark Shadows lacks any real drive or momentum, struggling to sink its teeth into a compelling story or plot

    Lee Griffiths · 3 out of 5
    After centuries in the grave, a vampire returns to try and sort out his dysfunctional family.
  • Dead Man (1995)
    Review preview for Dead Man

    A western for sleepwalkers and dreamers.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Road movie about the friendship of a wounded young man in the western frontiers, who hooks up with a Native American.
  • Donnie Brasco (1997)
    Review preview for Donnie Brasco

    I think this is the best film made about the Mafia.

    Symon Parsons · 5 out of 5
    An FBI man faces conflicted loyalties after infiltrating the mob.
  • Edward Scissorhands (1990)
    Review preview for Edward Scissorhands

    By contrasting an artificial man with the real but unsubtly false men and women of the world and their queer existences, Burton presents satire with a dull thud.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    An intrepid Avon lady enters her local Gothic castle to find a lonely young home-made man with scissors for hands.
  • Ed Wood (1994)
    Review preview for Ed Wood

    Alternately hilarious and touching.

    Gator MacReady · 5 out of 5
    Biopic of 'the worst director of all time'.
  • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald (2018)
    Review preview for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald

    Grand chases and massive effects.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead.
  • Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)
    Review preview for Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

    Gilliam uses voice over (too much?) to give a taste of the Hunter S style and help explain what on earth is going on.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The psychadellic exploits of a lawyer and Journalist in the city of excess.
  • Finding Neverland (2004)
    Review preview for Finding Neverland

    It is difficult to find anything bad to say about a film that treats an interesting subject with such respect and ingenuity.

    Emma Slawinski · 5 out of 5
    Loose biopic of Peter Pan author JM Barrie.
  • For No Good Reason (2012)
    Review preview for For No Good Reason

    Hunter S. Thompson and the crazy stories of what the pair got up to in the USA are an obvious highlight.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    The life and art of Ralph Steadman.
  • Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
    Review preview for Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

    Rachel Talalay’s attempts to give Freddy’s Dead a darker, grittier edge are lost beneath the clownish Freddy shenanigans and ridiculous death scenes.

    James Gracey · 2 out of 5
    Freddy haunts the dreams of his daughter and Springwood's last surviving teenager.
  • From Hell (2001)
    Review preview for From Hell

    Judging by the violence of the crimes, the killer cannot be taken seriously when finally he is exposed.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Johnny Depp and Robbie Coltrane investigate Jack The Ripper murders in Victorian London.
  • Gypsy Caravan: When The Road Bends (2006)
    Review preview for Gypsy Caravan: When The Road Bends

    What's fascinating about Gypsy Caravan is the way Dellal becomes involved in her subjects' lives, enabling the viewer to do likewise.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Documentary following a group of Roma musicians from diverse backgrounds who get together to tour the US.
  • The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
    Review preview for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus

    If the story of a stranger arriving to try and save a beautiful young woman sounds like a familiar fairytale, beware - this is Gilliam's work after all, and nothing is quite as it seems.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A travelling show offers visitors the chance to choose between light and joy and darkness and doom.
  • Into The Woods (2014)
    Review preview for Into The Woods

    In the woods, we are firmly placed in the shoes of the children and slowly start to understand the adults through their songs.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    The musical story of a childless couple persuaded by a witch to steal special items from classic fairy tales.
  • The Libertine (2004)
    Review preview for The Libertine

    Morton continues to show her acting talents with a substantial - if not substantial enough - role and Malkovitch is an adequate counter balance to the very considerable presence of Depp.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    The tragic, promiscuous, defiant world of a 17th century philandering philosopher earl.
  • Lost In La Mancha (2002)
    Review preview for Lost In La Mancha

    There is no cohesion and little comprehension.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Documentary makers chart the falling apart of Gilliam's Don Quixote production.
  • The Lone Ranger (2013)
    Review preview for The Lone Ranger

    You can't help feeling British audiences may well embrace the film's oddness - and blatant anti-American stance - which while not always successfully executed, means there is rarely a dull moment.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The masked hero and his sidekick ride again.
  • The Man Who Cried (2000)
    Review preview for The Man Who Cried

    Potter manages to imbue Suzie's story with a feeling of anticipation, as if her life is fresh and innocent.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A Jewish girl hunting her father falls in love with a gypsy against the back drop of the Second World War.
  • Minamata (2020)
    Review preview for Minamata

    It’s aided by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s highly evocative score, which locates it in time and space as well as providing a dramatic undercurrent to the action.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    New York, 1971. Eugene Smith, once a highly sought-after photographer, now lives as a recluse. But then an unexpected trip to the Japanese city of Minamata, where an unscrupulous corporation has been releasing untreated wastewater into the bay, brings new meaning to his life.
  • Murder On The Orient Express (2017)
    Review preview for Murder On The Orient Express

    If Ustinov emphasised the humour of Poirot and Suchet the meticulousness, Branagh manages to bridge the two, while also bringing an unexpected note of soulfulness and melancholy to his performance.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    When a man is killed on a train, the Belgian sleuth steps in to investigate.
  • Nick Of Time (1995)
    Review preview for Nick Of Time

    . Walken is more pantomime villain than genuine menace and Depp spends the entire film looking as though he regrets signing up for it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 1 out of 5
    Johnny Depp has 90 minutes to save his daughter by shooting a senator.
  • A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
    Review preview for A Nightmare On Elm Street

    A Nightmare On Elm Street remains an atmospheric and genuinely unsettling film with a chilling, universally relatable central motif: sleep gets everyone in the end.

    James Gracey · 5 out of 5
    A child molester killed by vigilantes seeks revenge on their children through their dreams.
  • The Ninth Gate (1999)
    Review preview for The Ninth Gate

    Polanski and Depp conspire to plant seeds of doubt in the minds of the audience.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    In search of the book that the Devil wrote.
  • Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)
    Review preview for Once Upon A Time In Mexico

    Rodrigues's trilogy is a visual feast of posturing machismo, during which all sense and sensibility is discarded in favour of slow-motion stunts and death from a thousand angles.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Robert Rodrigues continues the saga of El Mariachi with even more bloodshed.
  • Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
    Review preview for Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

    A genuinely entertaining outing for the series, managing to generate both novelty and surprise while preserving all the best features of the preceding pictures.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Jack Sparrow is forced to accompany a dangerous woman and her still more dangerous ally on a daring quest to find the legendary Fountain of Youth.
  • Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (2017)
    Review preview for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge

    Visually the film excels. There are scenes that lavish the mind's eye

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Sparrow is drunk. Salazar is dead. Barbossa takes charge. The young ones are searching for the trident of Poseidon. There's a lot of water. And magic. If you wait long enough you might glimpse Keira Knightley running.
  • Pirates Of The Caribbean (2003)
    Review preview for Pirates Of The Caribbean

    Basing his character largely on Keith Richards and looking like a refugee from Adam Ant's Dog Eat Dog video, Johnny Depp crashes through the film, chewing up scenery and spitting it out with aplomb.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Epic romp with supernatural pirates and Johnny Depp mincing about with an Essex accent
  • Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
    Review preview for Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End

    Visually, as well as in certain performances, the final instalment of Disneyworld Goes Hollywood has a healthy infusion of surrealism and a sense of humour.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Action packed finale to the supernatural swashbuckling saga from Disneyworld.
  • Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
    Review preview for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

    The film bogs down in incomprehensible ya-ya. There are three or four plotlines going off in different directions.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The continuing saga of comic pirates, a posh totty in drag, a ghost ship and the buried heart of Davy Jones.
  • Public Enemies (2009)
    Review preview for Public Enemies

    Johnny Depp has rarely been better.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The FBI is charged with hunting down Public Enemy No. 1: John Dillinger.
  • Rango (2011)
    Review preview for Rango

    It is admirable that Verbinski has chosen to forgo 3D, as the spectacle he conjures in his various set-pieces is enough to have you ducking and diving already.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A chameleon finds himself in a Wild West town that is desperate for a new sheriff.
  • Secret Window (2004)
    Review preview for Secret Window

    As a thriller, it is non-conformist and packed with surprises.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A writer suffering from block is accused of plagiarism by a spooky stranger.
  • Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
    Review preview for Sherlock Gnomes

    You may suffer mild face ache. This is caused by persistent smiling

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The garden gnomes of London are in mortal danger from a yellow blow-up baby. Sherlock and Dr W to the rescue! Ceramic animation rules, right?
  • Sleepy Hollow (1999)
    Review preview for Sleepy Hollow

    At a time when ghouls have been relegated to cereal packets, Burton resurrects an Edwardian fascination with horror.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A naive policeman of impeccable character attempts to uncover the mystery of supernatural murders in 1799.
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007)
    Review preview for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

    Johnny Depp gives one of the greatest performances of his career.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Musical mayhem, murder most foul, and meat pies with a difference in a gothic tale of doomed love and deadly obsession.
  • The Tourist (2010)
    Review preview for The Tourist

    There are moments of distress, high tension, but there's never much doubt that there will be a happy ending.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    A post-heist thriller about a man whose lonely wanderings lead him into the path of a dangerous woman with still more dangerous enemies.
  • Waiting For The Barbarians (2019)
    Review preview for Waiting For The Barbarians

    Rylance is superb throughout in a role perfectly suited to his talents.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A magistrate in a colonial town suffers a crisis of conscience about the regime he works for.
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
    Review preview for What's Eating Gilbert Grape

    This gentle, beautifully made film has an understated sensitivity that runs right through it.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    The eccentricity of a one parent family, living in a wooden house, near a small town in Texas.

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