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  • Amistad (1998)
    Review preview for Amistad

    Amistad is one of [Spielberg's] deeply felt niche pictures that won't cause ripples on the stock market because of its uncompromising nature.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Courtroom drama about a mutiny on a slave ship.
  • The Beach Bum (2019)
    Review preview for The Beach Bum

    Hollywood is full of tales of people like Moondog who discover the true meaning of life when they get sober. Korine isn't that naive.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A once successful poet aims to drift through the remainder of his life in a happy haze of drink and drugs.
  • Bernie (2011)
    Review preview for Bernie

    Like the man after whom it is named, is joyously camp and colourful, and not a little eccentric – even unhinged.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Based on a true story. Jack Black stars in Richard Linklater's playful treatment of the strange story of a Texan funeral director.
  • Contact (1997)
    Review preview for Contact

    Sentimentality washes over the cold, technical body of the screenplay.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A radio ham finds proof of aliens.
  • Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
    Review preview for Dallas Buyers Club

    McConaughey's performance is a tour de force.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    When a fast-living heterosexual redneck develops AIDS, he refuses to take it lying down, and in his struggle makes some unlikely friends.
  • EDtv (1998)
    Review preview for EDtv

    None of the characters are interesting. They slip into stereotype and stay there, grinning.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Man invites reality TV cameras into his life, without considering the consequences.
  • Failure to Launch (2006)
    Review preview for Failure to Launch

    Throwing in some slapstick and cutesie animals doesn't distract from the fact that the female characters exist only in relation to men.

    Kotleta · 2 out of 5
    A woman hired to con a man into leaving his parents' home, falls for him instead.
  • Frailty (2001)
    Review preview for Frailty

    Instead of being driven by effects and action, Frailty holds your attention with utter disbelief. You can accept what is happening, but do you want to?

    Gator MacReady · 4.5 out of 5
    Bill Paxton’s kids think he’s gone nutzo in religious thriller about a serial axe murderer.
  • Fool's Gold (2008)
    Review preview for Fool's Gold

    Ray Winstone really should have known better, though his accent – American Deep South via London East End – is possibly the funniest thing in the film.

    Val Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    An estranged couple rock the boat while treasure hunting.
  • Free State Of Jones (2016)
    Review preview for Free State Of Jones

    "Every man is a man. It's as simple as that."

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters, runaway slaves, and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.
  • Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past (2009)
    Review preview for Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past

    There's some good material about how getting hurt changes you as a person, but the problem is its too often trapped underneath overly-trite sentiment and the need to please impatient teen girls.

    Stephen Carty · 3 out of 5
    An eternal bachelor finds himself haunted by romance past, present and future.
  • Gold (2016)
    Review preview for Gold

    They have dirt under their fingernails

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An unlikely pair venture to the Indonesian jungle in search of gold.
  • How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (2003)
    Review preview for How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days

    The script isn't witty enough, hitting the buttons by numbers.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Romantic aspirations collide, when a man who takes a bet he can make a woman love him in 10 days hooks up with a girl writing an article on how to dump one in the same time period.
  • Interstellar (2014)
    Review preview for Interstellar

    Not many films are as important to the future of humanity as Interstellar.

    Max Crawford · 4.5 out of 5
    Humanity's last hope lies in a journey into space.
  • Killer Joe (2011)
    Review preview for Killer Joe

    Friedkin has fun seeing how far he can push the envelope with swift, bloody violence and frequent full-frontal female nudity.

    Scott Macdonald · 3.5 out of 5
    Life-insurance crime thriller.
  • Kubo And The Two Strings (2016)
    Review preview for Kubo And The Two Strings

    A journey you have never travelled before

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
  • The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
    Review preview for The Lincoln Lawyer

    McConaughey works above and beyond his usual remit to remind us that he can also convey a formidable intensity and subtle sensitivity.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A hot-shot lawyer finds he may be out of his depth with his latest client.
  • Magic Mike (2012)
    Review preview for Magic Mike

    Frank, funny and immensely entertaining, Magic Mike is a brilliantly bittersweet cautionary fable.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    A peek inside the world of male strippers.
  • Mud (2012)
    Review preview for Mud

    In Nichols' world, understanding isn't taught but something that comes with experience.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Two teenagers try to reunite a fugitive with his long-term love.
  • The Paperboy (2012)
    Review preview for The Paperboy

    The references are messy, the gestures grand.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    A reporter heads back to his Florida hometown to investigate a possible miscarriage of justice.
  • Reign Of Fire (2002)
    Review preview for Reign Of Fire

    Before the movie disintegrates completely - it makes Mad Max look like a classic - you can't help wondering how these Yanks fuel their war machines.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Last men on earth fight the dragons that have decimated the planet, circa 2020.
  • Sahara (2005)
    Review preview for Sahara

    Push the plot too hard and it collapses. Best to sit back and do what you do with James Bond. If nothing else, the locations are breathtaking.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    An adventure yarn, with extreme treasure hunters and a beautiful doctor on a life saving mission.
  • The Sea Of Trees (2015)
    Review preview for The Sea Of Trees

    The twists and turns of this narrative fail to ring true with too many implausibilities in the plotting to give any credibility.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
  • Sing (2016)
    Review preview for Sing

    If this sounds like a corn fed carbon copy of a Debbie Reynolds standard, it's not

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Fast talking koala bear with a great line in bull and a cool idea to save his theatre from bankruptcy organises a talent contest with hilarious, disaster prone results
  • Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
    Review preview for Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

    It's a great experience for the actors to get into such meaningful and intelligent roles and for us to be thrilled by their hard work and great performances.

    Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
    Several intertwining stories of New Yorkers with no sense of direction in life.
  • Two For The Money (2005)
    Review preview for Two For The Money

    It’s hard not to get swept up in the ride.

    Stephen Carty · 3.5 out of 5
    The fabulously rich world of high stakes gambling has a dark, manipulative side.
  • U-571 (2000)
    Review preview for U-571

    The acting depicts fear and determination - no shades of emotion, no humour.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    American sailors attempt to capture a code machine from a German U-Boat.
  • We Are Marshall (2006)
    Review preview for We Are Marshall

    A straightforward, by-the-numbers sports movie designed to boost Kleenex sales.

    Stephen Carty · 2.5 out of 5
    After the players and staff of a high school football team are killed in a plane crash, a coach is brought in to rebuild the squad in honour of the dead.
  • The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
    Review preview for The Wolf of Wall Street

    This is how you destroy people's dignity and make them yours, Scorsese seems to say.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Based on the true story of the rise and fall of a financial high roller.

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