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  • The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (1988)
    Review preview for The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen

    Every scene is brilliantly realised and inhabited by unforgettable characters.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The unbelievable but (allegedly) true story of the exploits of Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen and a small girl.
  • The Affair Of The Necklace (2001)
    Hilary Swank is an unlikely countess in the court of Marie Antoinette just before the revolution.
  • Becoming Cary Grant (2016)
    Review preview for Becoming Cary Grant

    An accomplished portrait that presents something much more human than we're used to in this context.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The star's own words are used to tell his life story.
  • Brazil (1985)
    Review preview for Brazil

    With dazzling visual effects and stunning sets, Brazil is a film that you should see on the biggest screen possible.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A typo leads to an innocent man being confused with a revolutionary, plunging the life of a small time bureaucrat into chaos.
  • The Brothers Grimm (2005)
    Review preview for The Brothers Grimm

    The true fault lies with the script, which brings no life to the real, or indeed fantasy, characters.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Bogus ghostbusters finally meet their match in a genuine enchanted forest.
  • Brothers Of The Head (2005)
    Review preview for Brothers Of The Head

    Harry and Luke Treadaway frankly took my breath away.

    Susanna Krawczyk · 5 out of 5
    Conjoined twins exploited by the music business slowly succumb to psychosis.
  • Dark Blood (2012)
    Review preview for Dark Blood

    Dark Blood is an offbeat film no one would call formally perfect, yet the depths it gutsily goes for and its strange vein of comedy make it one to think about and enjoy

    Sophie Monks Kaufman · 4 out of 5
    When a couple's car breaks down at an former nuclear test site they are rescued and imprisoned by a local hermit.
  • De-Lovely (2004)
    Review preview for De-Lovely

    It is impossible to be down on the film when the many songs radiate such wit and style and keep the whole show rolling.

    Stephanie Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Musical based on the life of Cole Porter.
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
    Review preview for Glengarry Glen Ross

    Great cast, great dialogue, great Baldwin cameo, great movie.

    Stephen Carty · 4.5 out of 5
    Competition hots up in a real estate office when the employees are told their jobs are on the line.
  • Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (1998)
    Review preview for Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

    A gem for lovers of great show tunes.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    Celebration of 30 years of musical theatre, with Julie Andrews and a galaxy of stars.
  • Hysteria (2011)
    Review preview for Hysteria

    It's rare to see a film that is at once so playful and so openly political.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of the young doctor who invented the vibrator without understanding what it was really for.
  • Listen Up Philip (2014)
    Review preview for Listen Up Philip

    The moments of distinctly sub-Woody Allenesque humour make you dream of what might have been.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    An angry writer and his relationships.
  • Leatherheads (2008)
    Review preview for Leatherheads

    A treat for the senses from beginning to end.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    It's 1925, and an aging American football pro trying to make the sport a success falls for a journalist out to bring down one of its biggest stars.
  • The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
    Review preview for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

    Gilliam’s script cannot quite stand the excesses of his own imagination.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote.
  • Narcopolis (2014)
    Review preview for Narcopolis

    Frustratingly, the film isn’t really concerned with its setting, and the large bulk of the plot is a time travel caper that’s solvable within a few minutes of it being revealed.

    Luke Shaw · 2 out of 5
    A troubled cop tackles a case in a near-future world where all recreational drugs are legal.
  • The New World (2005)
    Review preview for The New World

    Epic, sprawling and inspirational.

    Richard Mellor · 4.5 out of 5
    English nudge out natives, plunder Pocahontas and kick-start some place called America.
  • The Penguin Lessons (2024)
    Review preview for The Penguin Lessons

    Coogan is well cast in this tricky role, moving easily from humour to heartbreak..

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An Englishman in Uruguay adopts a penguin, smuggles it back to his home in Argentina, and gradually wakes up to the political violence going on around him.
  • 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.
  • Regeneration (1997)
    Review preview for Regeneration

    Jonathan Pryce conveys the burden of inner conflict with exceptional subtlety, as James Wilby carries Sassoon's intellectual fury with fortitude.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    War poets meet in a military hospital for shell shocked soldiers.
  • Renaissance (2006)
    Review preview for Renaissance

    Renaissance is blessed with a script that not only feels like genuine noir rather than a hastily written pastiche, but also is not subordinated to all the visual razzle-dazzle.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    Ground-breaking animated film noir in which a hard-boiled detective hunts a kidnapped dame.
  • Ronin (1998)
    Review preview for Ronin

    Frankenheimer's direction is so flawless and masterful that every frame of every scene flows effortlessly.

    Gator MacReady · 5 out of 5
    Heist caper starring Robert de Niro.
  • The Salvation (2014)
    Review preview for The Salvation

    War by any other name

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A man who kills his family's murderer faces the wrath of a violent gang - with nobody to help him.
  • Shopping (1993)
    Review preview for Shopping

    Everything hangs on Billy, but he's empty.

    Gary Duncan · 2.5 out of 5
    Joyriding action with Jude Law and Sadie Frost.
  • Stigmata (1999)
    Review preview for Stigmata

    Wainwright's style is crude... slow-motion water droplets are constantly about to hit the deck, while white doves flutter toward high windows.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A Vatican sleuth investigates when a woman becomes possessed by the spirit of a priest.
  • The Two Popes (2019)
    Review preview for The Two Popes

    The Two Popes is totally captivating when Pryce and Hopkins simply talk and react to each other.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A struggle, behind Vatican walls, between a cardinal and a Pope.
  • What A Girl Wants (2003)
    Review preview for What A Girl Wants

    Dennie Gordon's 2003 version resurrects the worst aspects of English class snobbery in a film that makes you squirm with embarrassment.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Fiesty New York teenage girl comes to London to find her titled missing dad.
  • Woman In Gold (2015)
    Review preview for Woman In Gold

    Elegantly put together and watchable throughout, but falling short of the potential offered by this fascinating case, Woman In Gold has the shiny appeal of Klimt's work but none of the depth.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A Jewish refugee takees on the government to recover artwork she believes was stolen from her family.
  • The Wife (2017)
    Review preview for The Wife

    Björn Runge is in no hurry to reveal his characters' faults or their history, letting his camera linger on Close and Pryce, so we can see the thoughts that swim on after the words die away.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm, where her husband is to receive an award.
  • William Tell (2024)
    Review preview for William Tell

    An ostensibly rousing speech is aiming for Braveheart but has all the grip one would expect from an address to an adhesive sales conference.

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    William Tell has returned home weary after fighting with the Knights Templar in the Holy Land. Now he is called upon to help a farmer who is seeking revenge against the villains of the Hapsburg court.

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