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  • After The Hunt (2025)
    Review preview for After The Hunt

    Guadagnino is tilting at windmills and there isn’t even any wind.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
  • Arrival (2016)
    Review preview for Arrival

    Denis Villeneuve's latest film may be about aliens visiting Earth but it's the people who hold his interest.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A linguist is given the task of helping to communicate with extra-terrestrial beings when they touch down around the globe.
  • Afterschool (2008)
    Review preview for Afterschool

    'An effective and realistic examination of a world where intelligent and privileged characters have reached near-adulthood without having any real understanding of basic morality.'

    Jeff Robson · 4 out of 5
    A boy at an exclusive American private school becomes increasingly obsessed with watching video clips on his computer.
  • Bones And All (2022)
    Review preview for Bones And All

    The balance of subjectivity and object status becomes important in a story whose protagonists are always potentially dangerous to one another.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Maren, a young woman, learns how to survive on the margins of society.
  • Call Me By Your Name (2017)
    Review preview for Call Me By Your Name

    It is fundamentally a film about the workings of infatuation with a charmed fever that contaminates its characters.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    First love blooms over a long, hot summer for a teenager in Italy.
  • Digger (2026)
    Review preview for Digger

    Digger is not a film that invites fence sitting.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
  • Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (2022)
    Review preview for Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness

    It might not leave you spellbound but you're likely to be charmed.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Dr Strange tries to protect a girl who can jump between points in the multiverse.
  • Doctor Strange (2016)
    Review preview for Doctor Strange

    The most mind-bending, spectacular visuals of the entire series.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
  • The Grey Zone (2001)
    Review preview for The Grey Zone

    It delivers every experience I treasure in great drama.

    Scott Macdonald · 4.5 out of 5
    A group of Jews working to support the mechanisms of the Nazi death camps ask themselves how far they will go to survive.
  • Hugo (2011)
    Review preview for Hugo

    referential re-enactments of everything from Harold Lloyd to Fritz Lang will massage the ego of the informed but like most modern remakes, these scenes lack the heart and soul of their inspirations, and aren't imaginative or exciting enough out of context

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
  • Miles Ahead (2015)
    Review preview for Miles Ahead

    Cheadle attempts to give us the feel of the man rather than the real essence.

    Luke Shaw · 3.5 out of 5
    A biopic of legendary musician Miles Davis.
  • Miss Sloane (2016)
    Review preview for Miss Sloane

    One admires the cleverness of it, while wondering if there really are people who live like this.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    A ruthless Washington lobbyist takes on gun control.
  • Men In Black III (2012)
    Review preview for Men In Black III

    Whether the stars will align for the rejuvenated franchise is unclear, but for now there's a surprising amount of extraterrestrial fun to be had here.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    Time travelling shenanigans with our alien scum protectors
  • The Shape Of Water (2017)
    Review preview for The Shape Of Water

    Hawkins has waited decades for a role like this, in which she can fully exercise her talents.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A woman who works in a secret government lab discovers a classified experiment.
  • A Serious Man (2009)
    Review preview for A Serious Man

    A fine example of the uniquely offbeat, demonstrative, allusive cinema that only Joel and Ethan Coen can deliver.

    Paul Griffiths · 4.5 out of 5
    Black comedy about a professor whose life starts to unravel.
  • Shirley (2020)
    Review preview for Shirley

    Before, it often felt as though Decker was drifting off onto self-indulgent tangents but her latest feels much more under control, with those tangents are a fully fledged part of the portrait.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A young couple moves in with the famed author, Shirley Jackson, and her Bennington College professor husband, Stanley Hyman, in the hope of starting a new life but instead find themselves fodder for a psycho-drama that inspires Shirley's next novel.
  • 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.
  • Trumbo (2015)
    Review preview for Trumbo

    Despite this period being so rich in potential subject matter, this admittedly handsomely mounted, nimble and quite funny film chooses to take a pretty much conventional ride to a victory-lap finish.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    Story of the career of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in 1947.

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