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  • Alice In Wonderland (2010)
    Review preview for Alice In Wonderland

    Wonderland? I'm afraid this Alice has gone for a Burton.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Re-imagining of Alice as a teenager.
  • Alice Through The Looking Glass (2016)
    Review preview for Alice Through The Looking Glass

    Anything can happen and nothing makes sense and reality is a word as plain as it is pointless

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Alice returns to Wonderland to save the Mad Hatter.
  • Brad's Status (2017)
    Review preview for Brad's Status

    Brad is a painstakingly developed character and one who is often sympathetic, if not exactly likeable, but he's also a character we've seen many times before.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.
  • Bright Young Things (2003)
    Review preview for Bright Young Things

    Where Fry succeeds so well is allowing the intrinsic innocence of these brittle butterflies to be exposed without mockery.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Biting satire on the Thirties party circuit in London.
  • The Damned United (2009)
    Review preview for The Damned United

    It’s Sheen’s ability to humanise the brilliant-yet-volatile legend that hits the back of the net hardest.

    Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5
    Partially fictionalised biopic of the outspoken manager, Brian Clough
  • Far From The Madding Crowd (2015)
    Review preview for Far From The Madding Crowd

    The pace is slower than a trot

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
  • Frost/Nixon (2008)
    Review preview for Frost/Nixon

    It’s Frank Langella’s towering interpretation of Nixon that eventually makes every other character real.

    Chris · 5 out of 5
    Timely restaging of the Frost/Nixon televised interview and duel of wits.
  • The Four Feathers (2002)
    Review preview for The Four Feathers

    The English bits tend to drag dreadfully.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Tale of redcoats, incompetence, cowardice and unrequited love in Victorian England and the Sudan.
  • Heartlands (2002)
    Review preview for Heartlands

    For an uplifting tale about an ordinary man, who is not a recovering alcoholic, or a typical British waster, then check this out.

    Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
    Big-time loser turns his life around when he travels to Blackpool in an effort to win back his estranged wife.
  • Home Again (2017)
    Review preview for Home Again

    What is Reese Witherspoon doing here? That's a loaded question, safety catch off

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Divorcee with kids returns to L.A from New York and hitches up with three likely lads who want to break into the movie biz.
  • The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
    Review preview for The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

    The character-based comedy mostly works as well as it does on the show, but the laboured and frequently infantile storylines make the film fall flat on its face when it's not half way up its own arse.

    Scott Macdonald · 2.5 out of 5
    Convoluted comedy from TV-based series that questions the meaning of reality.
  • Midnight In Paris (2011)
    Review preview for Midnight In Paris

    For some, Midnight In Paris will be first love; for others, a delicious encounter with an old flame.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A struggling writer visiting Paris with his fiancee explores the city's illustrious past in order to find his real passions.
  • My Last Five Girlfriends (2008)
    Review preview for My Last Five Girlfriends

    Kemp makes a virtue of his ‘going for a ride’ framework, so that the viewer has a short-hand indication of where each of the five segments into which the film is split will take them.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A suicidal man considers the five women he has loved and lost.
  • Nocturnal Animals (2016)
    Review preview for Nocturnal Animals

    This is a study of bitter, sorry people hurting each other using ancient memories, propelled like bullets via the power of fiction.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    A woman is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, which she interprets as a veiled threat.
  • Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer (2016)
    Review preview for Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer

    Cedar aims for emotional truth through visceral recognition and he succeeds in feeding our desire to understand what makes humans do the things we do.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A fixer falls in with a rising Israeli politician and is soon trying to bluff his way into the big time.
  • Passengers (2016)
    Review preview for Passengers

    The concept of being trapped in solitary confinement for the rest of your natural is a goose bump reversal experience

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An odd romance develops on a transport spaceship.
  • The Queen (2006)
    Review preview for The Queen

    A few contrived moments, such as the metaphorical stag the Queen spots on her estate, only marginally detract from what is otherwise a fascinating drama on previously uncharted cinematic territory.

    Ben Sillis · 4 out of 5
    The experiences of Queen Elizabeth II after the death of Princess Diana.
  • Timeline (2003)
    Review preview for Timeline

    Proof that when you combine a great premise and a talented director, you don't necessarily strike gold.

    Stephen Carty · 2 out of 5
    Archaeologists travel back in time to 14th Century France.
  • TRON: Legacy (2010)
    Review preview for TRON: Legacy

    You are unlikely to see a better-looking film this year or a film that is more of its moment – but if you see this a few years hence, it will no doubt already have started looking as redundant as an Eighties arcade game.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Seven years after his mysterious disappearance, Kevin Flynn's son discovers his father is trapped in his own 'utopia'.
  • Underworld: Evolution (2006)
    Review preview for Underworld: Evolution

    Delivers in spades what the first film only hinted at.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    The vicious mythology of wars between Vampires and Lycans continues.
  • Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans (2009)
    Review preview for Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans

    Offers far more visually than it does narratively.

    Leanne McGrath · 3 out of 5
    Prequel chases the origins of the feud between vampires and werewolves.
  • Underworld (2003)
    Review preview for Underworld

    Absense of personality leaves Beckinsale's character in a limbo, where sex appeal is not the same as charisma.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Vampires and werewolves battle for supremacy.

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