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  • Bear With Us (2018)
    Review preview for Bear With Us

    Despite the family fall outs and relationship fallout, these characters are winningly human.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A family has decided to sell their lovely cottage as none of them has visited it for some time. Yet it holds so many nostalgic memories that the mother suggests they all spend one last day there before the sale takes place.
  • Black Flies (2023)
    Review preview for Black Flies

    The pace is relentless and raucous - so much so that many viewers will feel alienated.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    A young paramedic makes his way through his first year on the job in New York City.
  • Bully (2001)
    Review preview for Bully

    The performances are uninhibited and utterly believable.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The true story of a motiveless murder amongst middle-class teenagers in Florida.
  • Criminal (2016)
    Review preview for Criminal

    There are two stories running side by side. When they reach the junction they collide. It's a Hollywood disaster

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    The memories of a dead CIA operative are implanted in a dangerous convict.
  • The Dreamers (2003)
    Review preview for The Dreamers

    Despite full frontals, this is less erotic than scooping shelled shrimps out of aspic with your tongue.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Exploration of love set against a backdrop of the 1968 student riots in Paris.
  • Funny Games (2007)
    Review preview for Funny Games

    Haneke once again delivers intellectual, challenging and bravura filmmaking.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    English language remake of the ice-cold horror about a family held hostage by a pair of preppy youngsters. Plus read our with producer Chris Coen.
  • The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
    Twisted tale of motherly love gone oh so very wrong.
  • Hedwig And The Angry Inch (2000)
    Review preview for Hedwig And The Angry Inch

    It is a triumph of the imagination over a plot that is not really a plot, more an emotional car crash.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Musical, in which a transsexual punk rocker recounts her life story.
  • Ithaqua (2026)
    Review preview for Ithaqua

    Made in close consultation with the people whose ancient lore it borrows, this is a film rich in detail, so solidly grounded and astute in its observation of real world horrors that viewers will find it easy to accept its more fantastical aspects.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    American mercenary Cole Franklin is recruited as a hired gun at the remote outpost of Fort William, struggling to survive the decline of the fur trade. With dwindling supplies, the keepers of the Fort blackmail Cole into leading a trading party to a nearby Indigenous village, where they discover a massacre.
  • Last Days (2005)
    Review preview for Last Days

    A mood piece sustained by a kind of strange, desperate beauty.

    Themroc · 4 out of 5
    The final hours of a rock legend.
  • Murder By Numbers (2002)
    Review preview for Murder By Numbers

    A cat's breakfast has more chance of winning an award for neatness.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Sandra Bullock investigates motiveless murder around prestigious high school.
  • Silk (2007)
    Review preview for Silk

    When it comes to Japanese slo-mo sensuality, there is nothing you can do but admire the photography, because arousal has been dulled to death long before.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    19th century travels in search of silk worms introduces the perfectly naked Japanese concubine.

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