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  • Denial (2016)
    Review preview for Denial

    This is a grown-up film not ashamed to ask its audience to think rather than mindlessly emote.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A film about a real life libel suit that became critical to proving that the Holocaust really happened.
  • The Father (2020)
    Review preview for The Father

    Zeller elegantly and scarily fuses dream logic with markers of past trauma.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Anthony is 80 years old. He lives alone in London and refuses the caregivers that his daughter tries to impose upon him. Yet his need for help is becoming more pressing.
  • The Favourite (2018)
    Review preview for The Favourite

    The dialogue is irreverent and sharp like a raven's claw.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Two of Queen Anne's acolytes jockey for position.
  • The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
    Review preview for The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

    The character-based comedy mostly works as well as it does on the show, but the laboured and frequently infantile storylines make the film fall flat on its face when it's not half way up its own arse.

    Scott Macdonald · 2.5 out of 5
    Convoluted comedy from TV-based series that questions the meaning of reality.
  • The Mercy (2018)
    Review preview for The Mercy

    This is a film full of notions about the way dreams shape our personal stories as much as being shaped by them.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, who enters a round the world competition in the Sixties in an unfinished boat and decides to fake his journey to save face and impending bankruptcy.
  • Operation Mincemeat (2021)
    Review preview for Operation Mincemeat

    Elegant and gripping but perhaps just a little genteel.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Drama based on the true story of how the British intelligence services fooled the Nazis.
  • Our Kind Of Traitor (2016)
    Review preview for Our Kind Of Traitor

    You have to know your enemy. If everyone is an enemy, where's the tension?

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Caught between the British Secret Service and the Russian mafia, an oligarch with nefarious secrets uses an English teacher on holiday in Morocco to help secure political asylum.
  • The Wind In The Willows (2006)
    Review preview for The Wind In The Willows

    There is a certain hollowness about this production that reduces it to a lightweight comedy.

    Natasha Footman · 3 out of 5
    Live action retelling of Kenneth Grahame's children's novel about the adventures of Ratty, Badger, Mole and Toad.
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)
    Review preview for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit

    Pure joy from start to finish.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    A vegetable horror comedy for claymation villagers and a dog.

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