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  • 47 Meters Down (2017)
    Review preview for 47 Meters Down

    "I'm so scared we're going to die down here."

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Two sisters trapped in a shark cage and running out of oxygen have to fight to survive.
  • Backtrace (2018)
    Review preview for Backtrace

    In addition to issues of physical discomfort, the film suffers from an unnecessarily convoluted and drawn out plot in which there's very little actually happening.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    The lone surviving thief of a violent armoured car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and given an experimental drug.
  • Le Divorce (2003)
    Review preview for Le Divorce

    Everything about the film is ill-judged, miscast and intellectually anorexic.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Rom-com centring two Americans in Paris.
  • Family Weekend (2013)
    Review preview for Family Weekend

    Nobody has played uptight this well since Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A teenage girl who feels betrayed by her family decides to pursue an intervention, beginning by taking her parents hostage.
  • Gazzara (2012)
    Review preview for Gazzara

    The actor appears in Rezwin’s film to be as shy as he is sensitive.

    Michael Pattison · 3 out of 5
    Conversations with the actor just before his death.
  • The Hippopotamus (2017)
    Review preview for The Hippopotamus

    Allam makes no secret of the fact that, as Ted, he's essentially playing Fry himself, capturing every little vocal tick and expressive nuance.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A theatre critic is offered a princely sum to travel to a stately home to investigate a series of unexplained ‘miracles’.
  • Married To The Mob (1988)
    Review preview for Married To The Mob

    For sheer style, the film is electric. Demme is incapable of being boring and consistently comes up with surprises.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Michelle Pfeiffer is a Mafia widow on the run and under surveillance by Matthew Modine (FBI).
  • Miss Virginia (2019)
    Review preview for Miss Virginia

    What elevates the film, despite its problems, is Uzo Aduba's performance in the central role.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.
  • My Love Affair With Marriage (2022)
    Review preview for My Love Affair With Marriage

    If there’s a single word to describe the latest film from Signe Baumane, it’s vibrancy.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Some people spend their lives wondering why a marriage didn’t last. Signe Baumane set out to get some answers. The result is this animated film, which combines ancient mythology and contemporary neuroscience.
  • Mulberry St. (2010)
    Review preview for Mulberry St.

    Mulberry St. is rich and colourful and utterly immersive.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The director explores the neighbourhood where he built his career
  • Overnight (2003)
    Review preview for Overnight

    A bit biased.

    Gator MacReady · 3.5 out of 5
    How to be the next big thing in Hollwood and screw up.
  • The Real Blonde (1997)
    Review preview for The Real Blonde

    DiCillo's dialogue has a cynical bite and the story expands naturally from rejection to humiliation with enormous good humour.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Comedy about the superficial life of a group of ageing thespians.
  • Sicario: Day Of The Soldado (2018)
    Review preview for Sicario: Day Of The Soldado

    There are deeper moral questions, ones sufficiently metatextual that I in the audience began to feel and fear complicity.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The drug war on the US-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight them, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with Alejandro.
  • Streamers (1983)
    Review preview for Streamers

    Though the tone is lower-key and much darker than in M*A*S*H, there is still some of the sense of the ridiculous which made Altman’s cult classic so watchable.

    Emma Slawinski · 3 out of 5
    Tense and dark alternative take on the Vietnam movie which focuses on four paratroopers preparing to ship out.
  • Transporter 2 (2005)
    Review preview for Transporter 2

    The Transporter franchise suffers from some serious engine failure in this too-slickly produced sequel and only just makes it over the finishing line.

    Gator MacReady · 2.5 out of 5
    The return of the ass-kicking courier in a convoluted tale of a kidnapped kid and a deadly virus.

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