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  • Bitter Moon (1992)
    Review preview for Bitter Moon

    An enjoyably salacious, seedy experience.

    James Benefield · 3.5 out of 5
    An Englishman gets more than he bargained for when an American on his cruise ship offers to tell him the story of his relationship with a beautiful but dangerous woman.
  • Bel Ami (2012)
    Review preview for Bel Ami

    This is a fantastic chance to see some of the industry's greatest talents at the top of their game.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An ambitious young man seeks to attain power in 1890s Paris by seducing and manipulating the bored wives of important men.
  • Chromophobia (2005)
    Review preview for Chromophobia

    The film neatly encapsulates the frustrations provided by its director: talent is displayed and interest grabbed, but in the end there’s only mild dissatisfaction and a sense of untapped potential.

    Richard Mellor · 3 out of 5
    A middle-class London family struggle with dysfunction.
  • Confessions Of A Shopaholic (2009)
    Review preview for Confessions Of A Shopaholic

    I can hardly remember a movie more spectacularly ill-timed.

    Scott Macdonald · 2 out of 5
    Ditzy farce about fiscally irresponsible journalist.
  • Darkest Hour (2017)
    Review preview for Darkest Hour

    There is an awkward balance here between the focus on capturing real events and a clear desire to play to the gallery.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A dramatisation of the early days of Winston Churchill's premiership and his dilemma over how to handle Hitler.
  • Easy Virtue (2008)
    Review preview for Easy Virtue

    This 1920s play by Noel Coward still dances along like a sprightly flapper, defying the passage of the years, thanks to Stephen Elliott’s energetic direction.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    When a young Englishman takes his American bride to meet his family sparks soon fly.
  • The English Patient (1996)
    Review preview for The English Patient

    Seldom has passion felt so primed, or sex so explosive.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Love and war expose the vulnerability of hope for a passion that seeks solitude in the desert.
  • Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)
    Review preview for Four Weddings And A Funeral

    The audience is taken from delight to despair, while never truly losing its grin.

    Josh Morrall · 5 out of 5
    Comic observations of the emotionally cauterised English upper-middle-classes at play.
  • Gosford Park (2001)
    Review preview for Gosford Park

    Altman's great triumph is in galvanising the energies of exceptional actors into a living, breathing entity.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Murder and mystery at a party in a stately home.
  • The Horse Whisperer (1998)
    Review preview for The Horse Whisperer

    Stories as good as this are rare.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    A trainer is enlisted to heal a horse but also works magic on those around him.
  • In The House (2012)
    Review preview for In The House

    Ozon loves to let his audience's perceptions clash.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Fiction and reality become blurred between a teacher and student.
  • The Invisible Woman (2013)
    Review preview for The Invisible Woman

    The film suffers from a profusion of good taste

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Adaptation of Claire Tomalin’s 1992 biography, which brought Charles Dickens' secret 13-year affair with a young actress to light.
  • I've Loved You So Long (2008)
    Review preview for I've Loved You So Long

    It is good to see Kristin Scott Thomas, often underused, in a role which makes real demands on her talents.

    Val Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Estranged sisters reunite under difficult circumstances.
  • Keeping Mum (2005)
    Review preview for Keeping Mum

    None of this is funny. It's embarrassing, or sad.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Sex and a serial killing granny seek gratification in Little Wallop.
  • Largo Winch - Deadly Revenge (2008)
    Review preview for Largo Winch - Deadly Revenge

    German star Tomer Sisley brings a winning level of charm to Largo, rising to the physicality of the role and injecting humour, but never letting it slip into pastiche.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A man tries to stay alive and track down the killer of his adopted father.
  • Looking For Hortense (2012)
    Review preview for Looking For Hortense

    An uneven film with occasional moments of genius.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    The life of a tired academic becomes suddenly moe complicated after his wife asks him to pull strings to help a Serbian woman who is facing deportation.
  • Military Wives (2019)
    Review preview for Military Wives

    You don't need the sheet music to know that this is a familiar tune and the film does lean into all the expected emotional beats heavily.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Comedy drama about singing spouses on a military base.
  • Mission: Impossible (1996)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible

    For those who cannot follow the plot there are some really good set pieces, with enough tension and excitement to carry the movie.

    Gator MacReady · 3.5 out of 5
    Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt, Special Agent, in the first of his TV spin off action extravaganzas.
  • My Mother's Wedding (2023)
    Review preview for My Mother's Wedding

    In casting its net My Mother's Wedding has just a few too many gaps.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. The mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colourful group of unexpected wedding guests.
  • Nowhere Boy (2009)
    Review preview for Nowhere Boy

    There is something a bit bland, a bit kitchen sink, a bit telemovie, about this portrait of the artist as a young man.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Biopic of John Lennon's younger years.
  • Only God Forgives (2013)
    Review preview for Only God Forgives

    Perhaps Winding Refn’s most deliberately difficult work to date.

    Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
    A drug smuggler in Bangkok is charged by his mother with finding and killing whoever killed his brother.
  • The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
    Review preview for The Other Boleyn Girl

    Portraying a woman of such character is no easy task, and it's unfortunate that the task has fallen to Natalie Portman.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A dramatisation of the Boleyn sisters' competition for the affections of King Henry VIII.
  • Random Hearts (1998)
    Review preview for Random Hearts

    Scott Thomas is a revelation. Few actors work from the inside out with such delicacy and focus.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    After a plane crash exposes his wife's affair with a congresswoman's hubby, Harrison Ford's cop gets on the case.
  • Rebecca (2020)
    Review preview for Rebecca

    What is fatal is to make the mistake of thinking, because Hitchcock built up his illusions so well, that this is a story about nice people.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A young newlywed arrives at her husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death.
  • Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (2011)
    Review preview for Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

    Blunt and McGregor do what they can but they, like their characters, are swimming upstream in a river of syrup to a soundtrack that came from the drawer marked Now That's What I Call Celtic.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    When an idealistic sheikh persuades a fisheries expert to try and introduce salmon to the Yemen, the expert soon finds himself himself out of his depth, but love blossoms along the way.
  • Sarah's Key (2010)
    Review preview for Sarah's Key

    The drama of Julia's modern life quite simply can't compete with the history lesson that has gone before.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A journalist uncovers family secrets that link her to a young Jewish girl persecuted 60 years previously.
  • Small Cuts (2003)
    Review preview for Small Cuts

    There are too many scenes of men gabbling incoherently and not doing anything.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Muddled romantic liaisons for Communist journalist in Paris and the depths of the country.
  • Suite Française (2014)
    Review preview for Suite Française

    The film looks right but feels strangely familiar

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    During the early years of German occupation of France, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier, a French villager, and Bruno von Falk, a German officer.
  • Tell No One (2006)
    Review preview for Tell No One

    This is a crisp and well made thriller. It confidently moves the story with its universal themes of secrecy and the abuse of power to France, and grips all the way through.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Years after the event, a man still haunted by the apparent murder of his wife starts to receive mysterious instructions.
  • Up At The Villa (2000)
    Review preview for Up At The Villa

    The acting is either terrible or terrific and the social set pieces, like the Princess's dinner party, seem positively absurd.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Upper-class lust and betrayal in Thirties Florence.
  • The Walker (2007)
    Review preview for The Walker

    A real cinematic gem disguised as a rhinestone.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Investigating a murder mystery, a sophisticated male escort discovers some unexpected things about himself.
  • The Woman In The Fifth (2011)
    Review preview for The Woman In The Fifth

    There's half of a good film here, but Pawlikowski approaches his material in a way that undermines the rationale and our perception of the film's third act.

    James Benefield · 2 out of 5
    While in Paris an academic meets a woman who may be involved in a series of mysterious murders.

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