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  • 127 Hours (2010)
    Review preview for 127 Hours

    If, like me, you’re a fully paid-up member of the Boyle fan club, this still has all the things you go to his movies for – imagination, heart, humour and a constant desire to try something new.

    Jeff Robson · 4 out of 5
    The truer story of Aron Ralston, a climber who had to resort to desperate measures when trapped by a boulder.
  • Bucking Fastard (2026)
    Review preview for Bucking Fastard

    For all the strangeness of the premise there’s not a lot of meat on the bones of this story.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The adventures of a pair of twins whose speech is synchronised and lives co-dependent.
  • Brokeback Mountain (2004)
    The illicit love of two cowboys.
  • Captive (2015)
    Review preview for Captive

    Authenticity is well matched by the performances

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A drug-addicted single mum is taken hostage in her own home.
  • Call Jane (2022)
    Review preview for Call Jane

    Nagy and her screenwriters’ disciplined refusal to pursue grandiose storylines results in a well-earned sense of community.

    Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
    Chicago, 1968: after having a life-saving secret abortion, a suburban housewife seeks to give women access to healthy and safe abortions through an underground collective of women known as "Jane".
  • The Dutchman (2025)
    Review preview for The Dutchman

    There’s a lot of very good work in The Dutchman.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a sexualised game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman on a subway that leads to a violent conclusion.
  • A Fairy Story (2002)
    Review preview for A Fairy Story

    It's all too magical for words.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A day in the life of a tooth fairy, who lives in the real world and the fairy world simultaneously.
  • Good Thanks, You? (2020)
    Review preview for Good Thanks, You?

    Jobson carries the film with remarkable confidence.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    In the aftermath of a sexual assault, a teenager is further traumatised by others' behaviour.
  • Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
    Review preview for Happythankyoumoreplease

    This is a movie in serious need of pruning.

    Nick Da Costa · 3.5 out of 5
    A mumblecore romcom following a group of friends struggling with their relationships.
  • Ironclad (2011)
    Review preview for Ironclad

    For those who've always found Robin Hood yarns a trifle lightweight, this rufty-tufty beer-swilling, limb-lopping examination of King John attempting to quash a rebellion after being forced to sign the Magna Carta is worth a look.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A small group of fighters try stop Rochester Castle falling into the tyrannical hands of King John.
  • The Martian (2015)
    Review preview for The Martian

    The Martian’s real strength lies in its good-natured attitude.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    An astronaut becomes stranded on a mission to Mars.
  • Shooter (2007)
    Review preview for Shooter

    That's not beer in the Marky Mark fridge, it's testosterone. And he's going to share it with you.

    Martin Gray · 3 out of 5
    A disgruntled ex-US marine fights a conspiracy at the heart of government. With guns. Big guns.
  • The Senator (2017)
    Review preview for The Senator

    Undeniably, powerfully, tragic, a tale of ambition, bad decisions, cover-ups if not conspiracy - actual smoke-filled back rooms and dirt-road meetings notwithstanding - it is sympathetic to its protagonist but only so far.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A dramatisation of events around Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claimed the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
  • Stone Of Destiny (2008)
    Review preview for Stone Of Destiny

    A brief trip into shortbread-tin Scotland.

    Scott Macdonald · 1.5 out of 5
    If Ealing were still alive... they'd probably grab this script and run with it!
  • Transsiberian (2008)
    Review preview for Transsiberian

    One increasingly unlikely incident follows another, saddling the characters with exceptionally dumb behaviour and silly dialogue until the whole thing goes off the rails.

    Tony Sullivan · 1.5 out of 5
    Mystery on the Tran Siberian Express.
  • Tadpole (2002)
    Review preview for Tadpole

    It has little teen humour, with the majority of the cast unlikely to see 40 again, and there is not enough plot substance to constitute an incentive for the older crowd.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A boy falls for his stepmother in this coming of age comedy.
  • We Are Marshall (2006)
    Review preview for We Are Marshall

    A straightforward, by-the-numbers sports movie designed to boost Kleenex sales.

    Stephen Carty · 2.5 out of 5
    After the players and staff of a high school football team are killed in a plane crash, a coach is brought in to rebuild the squad in honour of the dead.

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