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Snow can be tough to shoot in, especially on a small budget, but the wintery prospects work well here and suit a theme of emotional coldness and concealment.

Hokum and a lamentably OTT ending ruin what had been a pleasingly ponderous piece of pap.

The plot strands are abandoned after the intro, the characters never encouraged to rise above their cardboard.

There are plenty of low budget science fiction films with weak acting, bad scripts and tacky plots that remain great fun to watch. This isn't one of them.

It's essentially a simple premise but the delivery is a thing of beauty.

Bale's performance is superb, his devotion to the role scary.

For all that there's some gold within it the real treasure is in playfulness.

There is no room for quirky individualism, as writer Bill Wittliff shovels on the sentimentality. Even the dialogue is highlighted with italics.

Delivers the schlock goods.

Reeker is slyly funny and certainly macabre (if not exactly scary).

The concept, narrative, dialogue, cinematography and action sequences are elements of Scanners that can't be faulted.

Starship Troopers is one of Verhoeven's most underrated works.

Burke's performance would be riveting even on an empty sound stage.

Ormond and Pullman abet Surveillance's queasiness with their characters' near-complete apathy to the situation unfolding around them.

Terminator Salvation looks more towards its potential sequels than towards itself.

It's tightly structured but ambitious in scope and often reminiscent of Soviet cinema in both style and thematic arc.

At first glance it seems like a rollercoaster action movie but underneath it's full of ambiguities, hidden clues and red herrings.

A preposterously gory exercise in nostalgia.

Leaning slightly more towards action than the fascist allegory-orientated original.