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  • 24: Series 4 (2005)
    Review preview for 24: Series 4

    Gushes tension and excitement from every pore.

    Keith Dudhnath · 4 out of 5
    Another day, another crisis; this time terrorists are planning a major outrage.
  • Dark City (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City

    What [director Proyas] does here is juggle genres and lop the dead cells from the brains of old cliches.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Film noir plotting meets a fiendish science fiction underworld in an extravagant fantasy.
  • Dark City: Director's Cut (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City: Director's Cut

    A stylish and engrossing mystery - an immature, yet energetic explosion of storytelling ideas.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    Extravagant sci-fi fantasy about a hunted man struggling with his memory gets a directorial polish.
  • Forsaken (2015)
    Review preview for Forsaken

    The film is enjoyable enough, but unfortunately Kiefer Sutherland is not Alan Ladd.

    Robert Munro · 3 out of 5
    A disillusioned former gunslinger tries to reconcile with his father but finds their frontier town terrorised by a brutal gang.
  • The House Of Magic (2013)
    Review preview for The House Of Magic

    The charm levels are high

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    An abandoned kitten finds refuge in a magician's house that is filled with talking animals and animated objects
  • The Lost Boys (1987)
    Review preview for The Lost Boys

    Most of those who fell for this film when it came out still love it today. There's just one problem: it really isn't very good.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Cult brat pack movie about a boy trying to save his big brother from becoming a vampire.
  • Mirrors (2008)
    Review preview for Mirrors

    Mirrors doesn't feel like an unfixed horror for an uncertain world, it comes across more as a broth for the appetites of focus groups.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    Something nasty is lurking through the looking glass...
  • Melancholia (2011)
    Review preview for Melancholia

    Lars von Trier's sublime invitation to the end of the world is a grand film by a master story teller who does not repeat himself.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Two sisters' relationship is examined as a planet threatens to bring about the apocalypse.
  • Monsters Vs Aliens (2009)
    Review preview for Monsters Vs Aliens

    The best gags, at least for the over 20s, subvert 50s sci-fi movie convention.

    Tony Sullivan · 2.5 out of 5
    A woman's brush with a meteor supersizes her and soon, she finds herself and a team of other monsters taking on a bad guy from outer space.
  • Phone Booth (2002)
    Review preview for Phone Booth

    Schumacher uses split screens and visual wizardry to retain a breakneck pace.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Colin Farrell is trapped in a New York telephone box by a mysterious sniper.
  • Pompeii (2014)
    Review preview for Pompeii

    The film is about death, whether in the arena, or out

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A volcanic rebuke of Rome's corrupt society? Or an effects driven disaster movie with a romantic sub plot and gladiatorial massacres?
  • River Queen (2005)
    Review preview for River Queen

    A hauntingly beautiful piece of cinema.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A young Irish woman searches for her kidnapped half-Maori son.
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
    Review preview for The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Through heartfelt and very conventional storytelling Nair simplifies, pleads, and misses the chances to shift the very current problematics into a new light.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    A successful stockbroker finds his glittering career shattered after the Twin Towers fall, and is drawn back to the conflict in his homeland of Pakistan.
  • The Sentinel (2006)
    Review preview for The Sentinel

    The film is like a Chinese meal. You enjoy it at the time, but feel empty half an hour later.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    US secret service attempts to foil a presidential assassination plot, while uncovering a traitor in its midst.
  • Stand By Me (1986)
    Review preview for Stand By Me

    A thoroughly feel-good movie.

    Gabriella Trybalska · 4.5 out of 5
    Four young friends journey into the woods to investigate a death.
  • Taking Lives (2004)
    Review preview for Taking Lives

    The concept is good, but there are so many holes below the plotline, it sinks.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Lippy, leggy FBI agent goes to Montreal to find a serial killer.
  • The Wild (2006)
    Review preview for The Wild

    A dreary, cynical exercise in the marketing of cuddly toys.

    Sobhano · 2 out of 5
    Zoo animals escape to the wilds.
  • Where Is Kyra? (2017)
    Review preview for Where Is Kyra?

    The colours, like that coat, only serve to show Kyra in even paler relief, her invisibility coming to offer a welcoming cloak as she hatches a plan to avoid destitution.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A woman struggles to get by after the death of her mum.

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