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  • Abe And Phil's Last Poker Game (2017)
    Review preview for Abe And Phil's Last Poker Game

    Although it's not entirely successful as a film, its balance of comedy and tragedy serves to demystify a part of life too often hidden away.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Two very different men become friends in a care home and bond with a young nurse looking for her birth father, hoping it might be one of them.
  • Christmas Eve In Miller's Point (2024)
    Review preview for Christmas Eve In Miller's Point

    The camera drifts through it at a leisurely pace, back and forth, up and down, taking in different details one might when wandering around drunk or half asleep. From these, story and meaning gradually coalesce.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A clan gathers for what could be their last Christmas together at their family home.
  • Christine (2016)
    Review preview for Christine

    Craig Shilowich's careful scripting avoids all the usual mental illness cliches and hystrionics to help us sympathise with her even in her most unpleasant moments.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    True story of a driven but troubled TV news reporter.
  • Homebody (2021)
    Review preview for Homebody

    A tender-hearted comedy with a deep understanding of what it feels like to be a child.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Nine-year-old Johnny sends his spirit into his babysitter Melanie and gets to be a woman for a day.
  • Lola Versus (2012)
    Review preview for Lola Versus

    Essentially, this is Gerwig's natural charm versus her character and script's lack of it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A woman on the cusp of 30 tries to come to terms with being dumped by her fiance.
  • 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.
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
    Review preview for Martha Marcy May Marlene

    As a moody, atmospheric study of paranoia, it is hard to beat.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A woman is traumatised after fleeing a cult.
  • The Neighbor's Window (2019)
    Review preview for The Neighbor's Window

    Savvy viewers may guess where this is all going, but Curry doesn't push the emotions or the pace despite showing a decent passage of time.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A wife and husband become fascinated by the younger couple who live in the apartment across the street.
  • Piercing (2018)
    Review preview for Piercing

    Without a doubt, Pesce is one of the most exciting young directors to emerge in recent years.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A man seeks out an unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he encounters a woman with plans of her own. A playful psycho-thriller game of cat-and-mouse.
  • Plainclothes (2024)
    Review preview for Plainclothes

    Blyth and Tovey have chemistry to burn and Emmi generates pressure cooker tension as the past and many faces of the present prove to be just a synapse away in the kaleidoscope of Lucas’ mind.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies orders when he falls in love with a target.
  • True Story (2015)
    Review preview for True Story

    Something happens in the courtroom that puts a hammer to the spanner

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A disgraced reporter gets involved in a cat and mouse game with an accused killer.
  • We Strangers (2024)
    Review preview for We Strangers

    Valia and Kirby work together with wonderful ease, whilst cinematographer Charlotte Hornsby and editor James Codoyannis give key scenes a fluid, volatile quality which keeps us uncertain of how they’re going to develop.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A commercial cleaning woman in Gary, Indiana, stumbles into a new job cleaning the homes of several rich suburban families. While working, she tells one small lie that spins out of control.
  • X/Y (2014)
    Review preview for X/Y

    The biggest problem with Ryan Piers Williams' latest is that, although it is nicely shot and well acted, the characters with the most going for them are given the least screentime.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Restless New Yorkers try to find happiness.

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