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  • Adventureland (2009)
    Review preview for Adventureland

    At its core, Adventureland is a surprisingly sweet and tender coming-of-age romance.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A recent graduate takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park and discovers it's perfect preparation for the real world.
  • Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
    Review preview for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

    Burgundy's ability to survive cockups on an industrial scale is impressive

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    San Diego's 70s TV newscaster and his team of idiots take on the graveyard shift on a new 24hour New York channel with surprising (manic) results
  • Bridesmaids (2011)
    Review preview for Bridesmaids

    Don’t be tempted to dismiss it as another fluffy chick flick – this is a film with balls, bite and plenty to appeal to both sexes.

    Maria Realf · 4 out of 5
    Despite her best attempts to be a model member of the bridal party, an unlucky-in-love singleton finds herself rapidly becoming the ’maid of dishonour’.
  • Date Night (2010)
    Review preview for Date Night

    Painfully self-conscious, trying ultra hard to be wacky and repeatedly missing the mark.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    A married couple's plan to hit the town goes badly awry.
  • Despicable Me 2 (2013)
    Review preview for Despicable Me 2

    A magnificent 90 minutes of slapstick silliness.

    Max Crawford · 4.5 out of 5
    There's a new supervillain on the block and Gru is recruited to help the Anti-Villain League.
  • Despicable Me 4 (2024)
    Review preview for Despicable Me 4

    Good enough.

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr, who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.
  • Downsizing (2017)
    Review preview for Downsizing

    Alexander Payne's latest, unclassifiable film gallivants with us through a number of different worlds that all seem familiar, yet perplexing.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Satire about a man who starts to think he would have a better life if only he could shrink himself.
  • Ghostbusters (2016)
    Review preview for Ghostbusters

    This is a blockbuster which puts the emphasis firmly on entertainment by showing its heroes enjoying their roles, not suffering through angst.

    Andrea Mullaney · 3.5 out of 5
    A team take on a ghost invasion of Manhattan.
  • Girl Most Likely (2012)
    Review preview for Girl Most Likely

    Initially seems to be another quirkily neurotic chick-flick, but soon reveals itself to be surprisingly good-natured and insightful.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    After her life collapses around her a woman is forced to move back in with her mother, and clashes ensue.
  • Her (2013)
    Review preview for Her

    It is in these details, the small objects Jonze provides us with in his film of disembodied desires, that essences become distilled.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A lonely writer falls in love with his new all-purpose operating system, leading to romantic and existential complications.
  • How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
    Review preview for How to Train Your Dragon

    Fast and funny enough to let even its derivativeness take wing – and, as any seven-year-old can tell you, dragons are cool.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A young viking becomes an unlikely dragon master.
  • How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
    Review preview for How To Train Your Dragon 2

    There is no tension, no expectation of trouble. Happiness infuses the land

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Hiccup and his prehistoric friends fight the evil forces of a dastardly dragonnapper
  • 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.
  • MacGruber (2010)
    Review preview for MacGruber

    Plotting is afoot, so that the spirit of the Eighties is embraced and royally sent up.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Eighties spoof sees hapless bomb expert take on an old nemesis.
  • Mother! (2017)
    Review preview for Mother!

    In the realm of the insane reason has no place. Anything is possible. Even the impossible

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Uninvited guests threaten a couple's relationship.
  • Nasty Baby (2015)
    Review preview for Nasty Baby

    It either, depending on how open you are to it, completely goes off the rails in the final 20 minutes and destroys its credibility, or instead delivers a provocative moral twist

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    A gay couple try to have a baby with the help of their best friend... but trouble lies ahead.
  • Paul (2011)
    Review preview for Paul

    Though it's not on a par with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's best work, it's hard to imagine anybody not enjoying it.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two British comic book geeks visiting America pick up a hitchhiking alien and determine to help him return to his mothership, but the FBI are on their tail.
  • The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (2013)
    Review preview for The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

    He takes the antihero into areas of sad you never knew you wanted to avoid.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A sad little man who dreams of heroic derring-do goes on a real life adventure in cold countries
  • The Skeleton Twins (2014)
    Review preview for The Skeleton Twins

    The end product of a long and dismal trend in American indies, where the effort to create art just like the art one saw last week has produced a formula that is exponentially recursive.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    A restless young woman reconnects with her brother while he is recovering from a suicide attempt.
  • Sausage Party (2016)
    Review preview for Sausage Party

    If you’ve ever wanted to see a bagel and a lavash engaging in homosexual activity used as an argument for why Israel and Palestine should just y’know, smoke some weed and get on with each other, here’s your chance!

    Luke Shaw · 2.5 out of 5
    A sausage tries to find meaning in the world as well as carnal knowledge.
  • Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
    Review preview for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

    Walk Hard delivers a wonderful collection of pastiches that are both amusing and very catchy.

    Daniel Hooper · 3.5 out of 5
    Spoof biopic of a rock 'n' roll singer.
  • Welcome To Me (2014)
    Review preview for Welcome To Me

    There have been bad films. There have been terrible films. And then there's Welcome To Me

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own TV talk show.
  • Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
    Review preview for Wonder Woman 1984

    The central characters, so often a weak point in superhero movies, are well developed with solid performances all round. Gadot, meanwhile, goes above and beyond.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Wonder Woman has to learn some difficult personal lessons as she faces off against Max Lord and the Cheetah with the fate of the world at stake.

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