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  • Headspace (2022)
    Review preview for Headspace

    Balancing its grim observations with sly humour, it very effectively captures the community dynamics in both the home and the workspace.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    As the tensions and frustrations of life in a community house start to close in on him, a young man with Down Syndrome realises he may have to cross a line to end a nightly disturbance.
  • Spartan (2004)
    Review preview for Spartan

    Despite some dodgy plotholes and remarkable coincidences, the film is genuinely exciting.

    Andrea Mullaney · 3.5 out of 5
    A military expert is called in to rescue the abducted daughter of a high-profile politician.
  • Strap (2005)
    Review preview for Strap

    There is brave cinema and safe cinema. Strap is brave cinema.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Out on the town in Edinburgh with dopeheads and losers.

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