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  • Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story Of The Cabbage Patch Kids (2022)
    Review preview for Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story Of The Cabbage Patch Kids

    It quickly becomes apparent that this is more than just the story of the dolls. It is the story of the modern age.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of the doll sensation.
  • Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (2013)
    Review preview for Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2

    Rich and strange, although its trippy, LSD vibe becomes almost overwhelming in places.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Flint heads back to Swallow Falls to retrieve his mutant-creating food machine.
  • Downsizing (2017)
    Review preview for Downsizing

    Alexander Payne's latest, unclassifiable film gallivants with us through a number of different worlds that all seem familiar, yet perplexing.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Satire about a man who starts to think he would have a better life if only he could shrink himself.
  • Gone Girl (2014)
    Review preview for Gone Girl

    Rosamund Pike is a revelation as the woman who can be everything you want her to be - and, especially, what you definitely don't want her to be.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A man finds himself in the media spotlight after his wife disappears.
  • Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies (2004)
    Review preview for Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies

    Doesn't take itself any more seriously than is necessary to sell itself as a funny stoner flick.

    The Dude · 3.5 out of 5
    Weed, junk food and diarrhoea: can this movie get any funnier?
  • The Last Temptation Of Becky (2026)
    Review preview for The Last Temptation Of Becky

    Lulu Wilson’s impatient energy and Wexler’s panache are perfectly matched.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Now a CIA field agent, Becky goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at The Wolf's Lair, one of Hitler's WWII bunkers. When she learns the father, Wilhelm Reuss, plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him.
  • The Smurfs 2 (2013)
    Review preview for The Smurfs 2

    Viewers who are still awake after the first 20 minutes will be bludgeoned into unconsiousness by the the film's heavy-handed morals of unconditional love and family transcending blood relationships.

    Max Crawford · 1.5 out of 5
    Gargamel tries to create a new kind of evil smurf.
  • The Smurfs (2011)
    Review preview for The Smurfs

    There's a slew of awkward self-deprecating jokes that suggest the writers don't actually like smurfs in the first place, which leaves one wondering why anybody thought this film should be made.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    The smurfs are sucked through a portal into New York City, where they must fight the evil wizard Gargamel.
  • Starship Troopers (1997)
    Review preview for Starship Troopers

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

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A small group of friends join the war effort to save the Earth from alien attack. Do you want to know more?
  • Undercover Brother (2002)
    Review preview for Undercover Brother

    What appears to be the black version of Austin Powers, except without the charm, fun or decent one-liners.

    Lottie Oaktrees · 1.5 out of 5
    Sub-Austin Powers high jinks in which bad guy tries to stop an African American running for president.

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