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  • A Call To Spy (2019)
    Review preview for A Call To Spy

    Pilcher strikes a good balance between interpersonal drama, nerve-racking action scenes and focus on the cat and mouse game that the women are caught up in.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A drama inspired by true stories of women recruited as spies during the Second World War, who were sent to occupied France to disrupt the Nazis.
  • Concussion (2013)
    Review preview for Concussion

    A brilliant central performance from Robin Weigert.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A frustrated woman secretly becomes a lesbian escort.
  • Island Zero (2017)
    Review preview for Island Zero

    Punching well above its weight, this is a film unashamed of its own smallness and willing to take risks in service of the story.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realise that someone - or something - is hunting them.
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
    Review preview for Planes, Trains & Automobiles

    Planes, Trains & Automobiles is an eternal tribute to how great Martin used to be before he sold himself out to family movies and how wonderful Candy was as an actor and a person.

    Gator MacReady · 5 out of 5
    Steve Martin and John Candy try in vain to get home in time for Thanksgiving.
  • Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael (1991)
    Review preview for Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael

    Ryder conveys alienation with an authenticity that puts the rest of the movie to shame.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A small town prepares for the return of a local girl made good, while a girl becomes convinced she is her secret daughter.

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