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  • 12 Years A Slave (2013)
    Review preview for 12 Years A Slave

    One of this year's must-see films, this is not simply a worthy tribute of a subject too often ignored by Hollywood; it's also a remarkable piece of cinema in its own right.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A free black man is abducted and sold into slavery.
  • 1 - Life On The Limit (2013)
    Review preview for 1 - Life On The Limit

    Crowder’s film is clearly a labour of love and offers a more multi-angled approach than anything I can recall that’s gone before.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    Documentary charting the most glamorous – and dangerous years – of the Formula One motor racing championship.
  • 300 (2006)
    Review preview for 300

    It feels like a two-hour descent into Mordor that makes Gladiator look gay.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    An adaptation of the Frank Miller comic about the real life struggle of 300 Spartan soldiers to hold a pass against the full might of the Persian army.
  • Angel (2007)
    Review preview for Angel

    Lucy Russell in particular puts in a fascinating and nuanced performance.

    Susanna Krawczyk · 4 out of 5
    The life story of a self-obsessed young woman determined to succeed as a romance novelist at the beginning of the 20th Century.
  • Alien: Covenant (2017)
    Review preview for Alien: Covenant

    Its use of blood and slime and razor teeth is more inventive than a 12-year-old needs watch.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A spaceship full of colonists check out another planet where man eating monsters are starving for fresh meat
  • Assassin's Creed (2016)
    Review preview for Assassin's Creed

    This film is not worth seeing. The costumes, special effects and a brilliant cast can't save it.

    Donald Munro · 1.5 out of 5
    Two factions struggle for control of mankind's destiny.
  • Black Bag (2025)
    Review preview for Black Bag

    A sophisticated palate will discern any number of flavours running through Black Bag, but these are glosses on a traditional recipe.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    When an intelligence agent is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband - also a legendary agent - faces the ultimate test: should he be loyal to his marriage, or to his country?
  • Centurion (2010)
    Review preview for Centurion

    Centurion cannot escape the huge shadow cast by previous swords-and-sandals epics.

    Owen Van Spall · 2 out of 5
    A group of Romans struggle for survival after a guerilla attack.
  • A Dangerous Method (2011)
    Review preview for A Dangerous Method

    Keira Knightley... will be tough to beat at next year's Academy Awards for her portrayal of Spielrein

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley star in David Cronenberg's look at the early days of psychoanalysis.
  • Eden Lake (2008)
    Review preview for Eden Lake

    Not so very far from where we all live today.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A young couple spending a romantic weekend in the woods fall foul of an angry group of teenagers.
  • Fish Tank (2009)
    Review preview for Fish Tank

    Its momentum is overpowering.

    Chris · 4.5 out of 5
    A bored 15-year-old girl collides with her mother's frustrating but charismatic boyfriend.
  • Frank (2014)
    Review preview for Frank

    His attempt at satire digs too deep into the muddy waters of exaggeration

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Offbeat comedy about a wannabe musician who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant garde rock band led by the enigmatic Frank - a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head.
  • Haywire (2011)
    Review preview for Haywire

    Soderbergh lays the pretension on thick in flashbacks to the Barcelona job that is clearly at the root of her problems, with slo-mo here and black and white there doing nothing to distract from the fact that it has all the substance of a chocolate bar adv

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A betrayed agent goes rogue in search of revenge.
  • Hunger (2008)
    Review preview for Hunger

    Despite the filth, the violence and the desolation, McQueen’s portrait is a thing of brutal beauty in terms of its composition.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Examination of the events leading up to and during Bobby Sands' 1981 hunger strike. Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes.
  • Inglourious Basterds (2009)
    Review preview for Inglourious Basterds

    Graphic violence is mixed with tongue-twisting wittiness in Tarantino’s peerless signature style.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    A mercenary group sets out to hunt Nazis and try to assassinate Hitler during the Second World War.
  • Jane Eyre (2011)
    Review preview for Jane Eyre

    This is one of the most visually ravishing period dramas ever.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    A neglected young woman struggles to assert herself in 19th century England, finding love in the process.
  • The Killer (2023)
    Review preview for The Killer

    There's a disassociation between the original's ennui and what might be the consequences of sleep deprivation. There's also a rebalancing of its violence, and it might be that which most discomfits.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    After a fateful near miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.
  • Kneecap (2024)
    Review preview for Kneecap

    It's got the musicality that proper swearing should.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
  • Macbeth (2015)
    Review preview for Macbeth

    Kurzel helps to put his two actors at the top of their game.

    Richard Mowe · 3.5 out of 5
    Prophecy, treachery, murder and their consequences unwind in the Scottish Play.
  • Next Goal Wins (2023)
    Review preview for Next Goal Wins

    It's pleasant enough.

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    A story about the American Samoa soccer team, who suffered the worst loss in World Cup history, losing to Australia 31-0 in 2001. With the 2014 World Cup approaching, the team recruits a down on his luck, maverick coach in the hope that he can turns its fortunes around.
  • Pitch Black Heist (2011)
    Review preview for Pitch Black Heist

    Shot in lush, vivid black and white, the film carries a sense of age and expectation.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two men team up to rob an office safe but they must work around a light-triggered alarm system.
  • Prometheus (2012)
    Review preview for Prometheus

    This big-screen epic is immersive less for its binocular vistas than for their impossibly grand scale

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Exploration to the dark reaches of space, to discover the origins of mankind. It doesn't go well.
  • Slow West (2015)
    Review preview for Slow West

    Maclean shows a land where loss of innocence is ever-present.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A Scotsman heads to the american West in search of his lost love.
  • Song To Song (2017)
    Review preview for Song To Song

    Some films need to be watched alone. This is one of them.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Modern love story set against the backdrop of the Austin music scene.
  • Shame (2011)
    Review preview for Shame

    Fassbender and Mulligan burn white hot in the central pairing, their emotional maelstrom magnetic even when no dialogue is used.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A thirtysomething finds his life spiral out of control after his sister moves into his apartment.
  • Steve Jobs (2015)
    Review preview for Steve Jobs

    Fassbender does his best to not make the man easily likable at first.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    A biopic of the computing entrepeneur.
  • Trespass Against Us (2016)
    Review preview for Trespass Against Us

    The West Country slang in use is at times impenetrable, but it’s clear that writer Alex Simmonds has spent a long time learning its intricacies, and the actors are doing their best to capture the spirit and tone of this community.

    Luke Shaw · 3 out of 5
    A man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw family.
  • X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
    Review preview for X-Men: Apocalypse

    Without the all-star cast, it's easy to imagine X-Men: Apocalypse as a dismal failure, but the somewhat nonsensical script is rescued by the performances.

    Max Crawford · 2 out of 5
    An ancient, super-powerful mutant arises, planning to kill all humans and with a nasty fate in mind for Charles.
  • X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
    Review preview for X-Men: Dark Phoenix

    This was a great chance to cover one of the most iconic storylines in the history of comics, squandered by not handing the script to a five-year-old child in order to iron out some of the more egregious errors prior to filming.

    Max Crawford · 3 out of 5
    Jean Grey struggles with her cosmic powers, tearing the X-Men family apart.
  • X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014)
    Review preview for X-Men: Days Of Future Past

    What makes this film so enjoyable is the chemistry that holds its ensemble together.

    Michael Pattison · 3.5 out of 5
    Wolverine travels back in time in a bid to change history.
  • X-Men: First Class (2011)
    Review preview for X-Men: First Class

    It's not only the best X-Men film yet, it's a fantastic piece of cinema in its own right.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    The origins of the X-Men are explained as they struggle to thwart a villain with nuclear ambitions.

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