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  • Awaydays (2008)
    Review preview for Awaydays

    While it's enjoyable, even affecting in places, it's heavy handed and clumsy in others.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Tragic romance, based on Kevin Sampson's book about Tranmere Rovers hooligans in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • Across The Universe (2007)
    Review preview for Across The Universe

    Overall a mixed bag. Good bits. Great bits. Bits in which you want the ground underneath your reclining cinema chair to open and swallow you up.

    Tony Sullivan · 3 out of 5
    A look at the Flower Power era in America through the eyes of an outsider.
  • Serena (2014)
    Review preview for Serena

    The film spirals towards the inevitable like a Greek tragedy written in crayon.

    Donald Munro · 1.5 out of 5
    Melodrama about a logging magnate who discovers his wife can't have children.

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