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  • American Gangster (2007)
    Review preview for American Gangster

    Scott has gone back to source, bringing viewers the most refined product available.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    The true story of the rise of an American mobster.
  • Avengers: Endgame (2019)
    Review preview for Avengers: Endgame

    Directors Joe and Anthony Russo use the length to explore more than one significant theme in depth and to shift tone markedly from hour to hour.

    Jane Fae · 4.5 out of 5
    The remaining Avengers take a final stand.
  • Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
    Review preview for Avengers: Infinity War

    Infinity War is a clearing of the decks: opportunity for new characters and plots to emerge; opportunity too for some characters to move on.

    Jane Fae · 4.5 out of 5
    The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
  • Best Laid Plans (1999)
    Review preview for Best Laid Plans

    Builds beautifully before losing its nerve, leaving a bitter taste of irony.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Film noir about a teacher who sleeps with an underage girl.
  • Deadpool 2 (2018)
    Review preview for Deadpool 2

    That it manages to get away with this at all is largely down to the supernatural likeability of Ryan Reynolds.

    Max Crawford · 4 out of 5
    Deadpool brings together a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from time-travelling mutant Cable.
  • Dune (2021)
    Review preview for Dune

    It is pretty.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    A young man must survive on the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people.
  • Dune: Part Two (2024)
    Review preview for Dune: Part Two

    Dune at least looks, sounds, amazing, though not always.

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
  • Everest (2015)
    Review preview for Everest

    The grandeur and beauty of the place is set against figures of climbers, like black ants, across a white wilderness

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A climbing expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm.
  • Flag Day (2021)
    Review preview for Flag Day

    As a snapshot of the influence parents bring to bear on their offspring it lacks engagement for the audience and takes the attitude that everyone watching should be enrapt by the self-importance Penn brings to bear.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and conman in order to provide for his daughter.
  • Gangster Squad (2013)
    Review preview for Gangster Squad

    Outbreaks of emotion get swung about like loose punches in a brawl - gung-ho yet completely missing the target.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A group of incorruptible cops take on a kingpin in post-war LA.
  • The Goonies (1985)
    Review preview for The Goonies

    Donner's era-defining adventure is at once lighthearted, serious, scary and lots of fun.

    Stephen Carty · 4.5 out of 5
    A pirate treasure map leads a group of kids on an adventure.
  • Hail, Caesar! (2016)
    Review preview for Hail, Caesar!

    The Coens' obvious fun in concocting scenes of mid-century paranoia is infectious.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Capitol Pictures is about to complete its biggest film of the year, but its star has been kidnapped. Can the studio fixer solve the problem in time?
  • Hollow Man (2000)
    Review preview for Hollow Man

    As usual with big budget sci-fi movies, what is missing are characters that live and breathe.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Modern take on the Invisible Man sees Kevin Bacon do a disappearing act.
  • In The Valley Of Elah (2007)
    Review preview for In The Valley Of Elah

    Makes no secret about trying to be Chinatown, but surprisingly doesn't come off too badly.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A former soldier investigates the disappearance of his son, who has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.
  • Inherent Vice (2014)
    Review preview for Inherent Vice

    This is the tail end of the good times, Doc and his cohort seem as though they are fading out.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    A drug-fuelled detective investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
  • Into The Blue (2005)
    Review preview for Into The Blue

    The characters seem as shallow as the waters through which they paddle.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Underwater treasure evokes a moral dilmma for fit diver.
  • Kerouac's Road: The Beat Of A Nation (2025)
    Review preview for Kerouac's Road: The Beat Of A Nation

    Ambitious in its attempts to stitch Jack Kerouac’s biography through a patchwork exploration of both cultural and social modern America as related to his seminal book On The Road.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Jack Kerouac's On the Road finds new relevance as modern travellers including Josh Brolin, W. Kamau Bell and Natalie Merchant reveal how his quest for authentic experience resonates powerfully in our screen-saturated era.
  • Labor Day (2013)
    Review preview for Labor Day

    The ingredients may look to be all there but Reitman's effort feels too full of studio additives and overcooked.

    Amber Wilkinson · 1.5 out of 5
    A depressed woman and her son find their lives changed by an encounter with a convict on the run.
  • Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003)
    Review preview for Milwaukee, Minnesota

    Badly acted, badly directed, emotionally irresponsible and dramatically unconvincing.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Mentally defective angling champ becomes the target for itinerant criminals.
  • Melinda And Melinda (2004)
    Review preview for Melinda And Melinda

    For once, Allen's muse deserts him.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Two interwoven stories about one woman's life.
  • Men In Black III (2012)
    Review preview for Men In Black III

    Whether the stars will align for the rejuvenated franchise is unclear, but for now there's a surprising amount of extraterrestrial fun to be had here.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    Time travelling shenanigans with our alien scum protectors
  • Milk (2008)
    Review preview for Milk

    In one of the finest performances of his career, Sean Penn is understated to convey finer feeling, yet passionate on the soap box to an inspirational degree.

    Chris · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of groundbreaking gay politician Harvey Milk and his assassination.
  • Mimic (1997)
    Review preview for Mimic

    Mexican director, Guillermo Del Toro, does not follow Hollywood's traditional approach to nature's abnormalites. Fear is suggested, rather than flung at the screen.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Scientists step in to track a monster - with a good line in camouflage - that is picking off kids for lunch.
  • No Country For Old Men (2007)
    Review preview for No Country For Old Men

    Against the whisper of wind and buzz of flies, the Coens manage to find tension in the subtlest of movements and cut the dialogue through with humour as arid as the landscape.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    A man goes on the run from a psychopath in Texas after coming across a briefcase of stolen cash.
  • Only The Brave (2017)
    Review preview for Only The Brave

    Half way through you ask yourself, why am I watching this film?

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A group of firefighters try to protect a town from a wildfire.
  • Oldboy (2013)
    Review preview for Oldboy

    The veteran director brings more than enough to the table to make his version well worth watching.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A man who spent 20 years in solitary confinement sets about looking for vengeance.
  • Planet Terror (2007)
    Review preview for Planet Terror

    Glorious, a hilariously stupid zombie fest that spoofs and honours grindhouse so much better than the tenuously related Death Proof.

    Ben Sillis · 4.5 out of 5
    Survivors take on infected zombies in the second part of the double-bill formerly known as Grindhouse.
  • Sicario (2015)
    Review preview for Sicario

    Villeneuve sustains the knife-edge tension without a blip.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
  • Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2014)
    Review preview for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

    You don't venture into this steaming snake pit without balls of steel

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The Senator's power may be challenged and the femme fatale's allure may be slipping but Old Town remains a dangerous place in the neon nightscape of the graphic novel
  • Sicario: Day Of The Soldado (2018)
    Review preview for Sicario: Day Of The Soldado

    There are deeper moral questions, ones sufficiently metatextual that I in the audience began to feel and fear complicity.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The drug war on the US-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight them, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with Alejandro.
  • True Grit (2010)
    Review preview for True Grit

    Where Roberts' screenplay opted at times for easy sentiment the Coens' writing is not only wittier but also as chilly as a late Oklahoma autumn.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A young girl seeks out a lawman to hunt down the killer of her father.
  • Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
    Review preview for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

    There are loads of characters, tonnes of things going on, and little to no reason to invest.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    Gordon Gecko is back, and this time he's predicting financial disaster.
  • W (2008)
    Review preview for W

    In the end I found myself won over by the charm of this film's various creative idiosyncrasies and by the charisma of Brolin’s performance.

    Themroc · 3 out of 5
    The life of US President George W Bush, as seen by Oliver Stone.
  • Weapons (2025)
    Review preview for Weapons

    What we see is framed from the perspective of those after whom the chapters are named but we get the consequences of their visions too. We also see what they're afraid of, and how that intersects and overlaps is where Weapons is sharpest.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
  • You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
    Review preview for You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger

    This is far from vintage Allen, yet it's still a cut above most similar dramatic work.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Moving through difficult life changes, a group of people discover that illusions can be as significant as reality.

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