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  • 21 (2008)
    Review preview for 21

    Kevin Spacey is really the highlight of the film. Every scene he's in springs to life, his laid back performance blowing the younger cast out of the water.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A group of card counting college kids try to take the dealers of Vegas for a ride.
  • American Beauty (1999)
    Review preview for American Beauty

    As a thumbnail analysis of the middle-class American psyche, Alan Ball's script is a devastating attack. It is also extremely funny.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Satire is best when it has bite. Alan Ball gets his teeth into the psyche of middle America.
  • Baby Driver (2017)
    Review preview for Baby Driver

    This is not a serious film, rather a parody. Every attribute of style over content is here

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    His name is Baby and he’s a young and exceptionally talented getaway driver for a criminal gang. Pedal to the metal, music cranked up on his headphones, and flashing lights in the rear-view mirror. Just one last job and Baby can make a fresh start.
  • Beyond The Sea (2004)
    The Bobby Darin Story as perceived and sung by Kevin Spacey.
  • The Big Kahuna (1999)
    Three salesmen in a hotel room.
  • A Bug's Life (1998)
    Review preview for A Bug's Life

    Make no mistake: all ages will leave the cinema with a big fat grin on their faces.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    An ant recruits a troupe of circus insects to save his colony from grasshoppers.
  • Edison (2005)
    Review preview for Edison

    The surprise here is Cool J, who puts in perhaps his best performance to date.

    Steve Harwood · 2 out of 5
    Police corruption in the ex-murder capital of America is exposed by a rookie reporter.
  • Elvis & Nixon (2016)
    Review preview for Elvis & Nixon

    Dangerously thin on purpose

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Elvis goes to the White House to ask the President to make him a Federal Agent At Large.
  • Fred Claus (2007)
    Review preview for Fred Claus

    Fred Claus has a lot of things going for it but struggles because it can't make up its mind what it's trying to be.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Santa's older brother is asked to help out at the North Pole, and everyone gets more than they bargained for.
  • 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.
  • Horrible Bosses (2011)
    Review preview for Horrible Bosses

    Jennifer Aniston is an absolute revelation, burning up the screen in her sleaziest and possibly funniest performance to date.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.
  • Hurly Burly (1998)
    Review preview for Hurly Burly

    As a piece of writing, it has a sharp, smart gloss, without soul or feeling.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Men behaving badly in LA.
  • Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
    Review preview for Horrible Bosses 2

    There are no winners, only casualties

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Starting a business without bosses means that no one takes the blame when it goes belly up
  • K-Pax (2001)
    Review preview for K-Pax

    A beautiful film about family, connecting with others and finding the meaning in life.

    Stephen Carty · 5 out of 5
    A psychiatrist takes on a patient whose claim that he is from outer space is surprisingly convincing.
  • The Life Of David Gale (2003)
    Review preview for The Life Of David Gale

    This race for life never fails to stimulate excitement, but Parker takes it easy, too easy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Kevin Spacey tells his story to Kate Winslet four days before being executed for murder.
  • L.A. Confidential (1997)
    Review preview for L.A. Confidential

    What is unexpected in this self-conscious pander to the cult of genre cinema is the violence. It lacks the dignity of constraint.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Hard-boiled expose of Fifties corruption in the City of Angels.
  • Margin Call (2011)
    Review preview for Margin Call

    Chandor makes good use of his acting assets and there's no doubt that he knows how to direct, but ultimately, the dullness of the script is just a little too toxic.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A day in the life of a investment firm's meltdown.
  • The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009)
    Review preview for The Men Who Stare At Goats

    An enjoyable if uneven feel-good swipe at both US military and human endeavours.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    A reporter stumbles on the story of a lifetime when he meets a former 'psychic soldier'.
  • Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil (1997)
    Review preview for Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil

    There is no character developement, no tension.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A reporter gets caught up in the trial of a millionaire who murdered his gay lover.
  • Moon (2009)
    Review preview for Moon

    Moon represents a return to a more sedate and thoughtful science fiction of the Seventies and Eighties.

    Tony Sullivan · 4.5 out of 5
    An astronaut starts to lose the plot at the end of a mission to the moon - but is there something else going on? Plus read our exclusive interview with
  • Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999)
    Review preview for Ordinary Decent Criminal

    If this wasn't based on fact, no one would believe the sight of it.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Kevin Spacey is the creme de la crime in Dublin.
  • Pay It Forward (2000)
    Review preview for Pay It Forward

    There are so many sub-plots jostling for position that some are ditched almost before they appear.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A schoolkid tries to change the world with one small action.
  • The Shipping News (2001)
    Review preview for The Shipping News

    Spacey gives a remarkable performance.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Kevin Spacey, a social misfit hitting hard times, finds salvation as a journalist in a small town in Newfoundland, Canada.
  • Se7en (1995)
    Review preview for Se7en

    Se7en is filthier than a dead stray dog at the bottom of a New Jersey toxic waste dump.

    Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
    Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are cops who investigate a series of killings connected by the seven deadly sins.
  • Swimming With Sharks (1994)
    Review preview for Swimming With Sharks

    Spacey is served by some wonderful lines, which could have come from a bloody pen of Satan.

    James Benefield · 3 out of 5
    A frustrated studio assistant attempts to exact a violent revenge on his bullying boss.
  • Superman Returns (2006)
    Review preview for Superman Returns

    A wonderful movie with a nice clear story, good good guys, bad bad guys, rather special effects . . . really, every department is on top form here.

    Martin Gray · 4 out of 5
    The Man of Steel returns to save lives - but can he salvage his own?
  • The United States of Leland (2003)
    Review preview for The United States of Leland

    An accomplished feature about sin and redemption.

    Ben Sillis · 3.5 out of 5
    A disaffected US teen searches for meaning through murder.
  • The Usual Suspects (1995)
    Review preview for The Usual Suspects

    Singer and McQuarrie expertly sustain a rich and tantalising conceit, keeping the reader guessing to a superb climax – and beyond.

    Jeff Robson · 4.5 out of 5
    Five criminals thrown together in a police line-up decide to team up for a high-stakes job.

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