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  • Boyz In The Wood (2019)
    Review preview for Boyz In The Wood

    It's laugh out loud funny in places, and there's an endearing earnestness throughout.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    An anarchic cocktail of generational politics, hip-hop loving farmers and hallucinogenic rabbit shites, set in the highlands of Scotland.
  • Couple In A Hole (2015)
    Review preview for Couple In A Hole

    Kate Dickie is amazing.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    A Scottish couple ends up living like savages in a hole in the middle of a vast forest.
  • Donkeys (2010)
    Review preview for Donkeys

    Donkeys is an interesting experiment. But its script is patchy, and at times strands the excellent performances in a wasteland of poorly defined relevance.

    Chris · 2.5 out of 5
    An ailing man seeks to reconnect with his family but inadvertently keeps making all his previous blunders worse.
  • Education (2020)
    Review preview for Education

    McQueen builds his scathing criticism of the 1970s British school system in layers. Resembling the 'beautiful spiral constellation of Andromeda' that set the little protagonist dreaming, the film returns to the diverging realities and tropes.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    When 12-year-old Kingsley is transferred to a special-needs school, a group of West Indian women uncover an unofficial segregation policy.
  • For Those In Peril (2013)
    Review preview for For Those In Peril

    Falls just shy of a state of perfection.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    The lone survivor of a shipwreck, blamed for it for superstitious reasons, refuses to believe his fellow sailors are dead and sets out to find them.
  • The Green Knight (2021)
    Review preview for The Green Knight

    Any number of the film’s frames belong in frames, fit to adorn palace walls.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Retelling of the legend of Sir Gawain's quest.
  • Honey Bunch (2025)
    Review preview for Honey Bunch

    There’s a genuine unpredictability to Honey Bunch, both structurally and thematically.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Diana’s husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she cannot remember why ... As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
  • Native Son (2009)
    Review preview for Native Son

    This is one of my favourite performances of the year.

    Scott Macdonald · 4.5 out of 5
    Lonely farm-hand finds someone to be close to.
  • Not Another Happy Ending (2013)
    Review preview for Not Another Happy Ending

    If there is one positive thing that can be said about the film it is that it lives up to the promise of its title.

    Robert Munro · 1 out of 5
    A publisher tries to improve an author's creativity by making her life less happy.
  • Outcast (2010)
    Review preview for Outcast

    For much of its runtime, Outcast may be the best British horror film since The Descent.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    Beasties, romance, black magic, comedy and horror - sounds like it's got it all!?
  • Prevenge (2016)
    Review preview for Prevenge

    Writer-director Alice Lowe takes a blowtorch to the picture postcard image of pregnancy.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    A pregnant serial killer is out for vengeance.
  • Prometheus (2012)
    Review preview for Prometheus

    This big-screen epic is immersive less for its binocular vistas than for their impossibly grand scale

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Exploration to the dark reaches of space, to discover the origins of mankind. It doesn't go well.
  • Rain Catcher (2026)
    Review preview for Rain Catcher

    A stylish and twisty psychological thriller that easily goes the distance in terms of plot, even if the scripting is uneven in places

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A photographer takes snapshots of strangers, sharing them online as 'Rain Catcher' but he is unsettled when he spots a mysterious woman who is photographing him.
  • Raven's Hollow (2022)
    Review preview for Raven's Hollow

    It’s hard to imagine that [Poe] would have been anything other that appalled by this shoddy exercise in pilfering the most superficial aspects of his work.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    West Point cadet Edgar Allan Poe and four other cadets on a training exercise in upstate New York are drawn by a gruesome discovery into a forgotten community.
  • Red Road (2006)
    Review preview for Red Road

    The film makes no compromises to its audience.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A psychological thriller from Glasgow's heart of darkness.
  • Shell (2012)
    Review preview for Shell

    Isolation rules and comfort is cold in Scott Graham's gripping and emotionally tense feature debut.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An intense story of two people who struggle to keep their longings for freedom under control, set against a beautiful and remote landscape that reflects their isolation back at them.
  • Shepherd (2021)
    Review preview for Shepherd

    There are different kinds of horror at work here and Owen keeps us waiting to see which will come to the fore.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A grieving widower is overcome by malevolent forces.
  • Somers Town (2008)
    Review preview for Somers Town

    Meadows' film oozes quality. The scripting feels natural and, thanks to long takes, Meadows is able to get the best performances from his young leads.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    A boy heads to London to seek his fortune and finds friendship.
  • Take It Back And Start All Over (2014)
    Review preview for Take It Back And Start All Over

    It is this film's universality that gives it relevance - that, and a remarkable central performance from newcomer Kerri Clarence.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A former musician struggles with the banality of the life she has found herself living.
  • Timestalker (2024)
    Review preview for Timestalker

    Lowe’s approach is an exhiliarating, if sometimes a bit scrappy, mix of high and low brow.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A woman continuously seeks out the presumed love of her life across time, in one incarnation after another.
  • Undergods (2020)
    Review preview for Undergods

    The dystopian stories in Spanish director Chino Moya's feature debut nest within one another like a series of Russian dolls - dolls that have been carved by someone with a soft-spot for JG Ballard.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
  • The Witch (2015)
    Review preview for The Witch

    Eggers draws fully on the iconography of the period, the muted greys and greens of the landscape captured by cinematographer Jarin Blaschkee broken only by repeated flashes of cardinal red, bringing with it the suggestion of cardinal sin.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A family of New England settlers find their faith tested when their son disappears... possibly snatched by something evil in the woods.

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