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  • Almost Famous (2000)
    Review preview for Almost Famous

    Captures the seriousness and the sweetness perfectly

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Autobiography of a suburban Californian boy's rites of passage.
  • Bulk (2025)
    Review preview for Bulk

    It's not a map, it's a blueprint, a means of telling fortunes and a handsome puzzle to boot.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Sci-fi nightmare fusing head scrambling multiverse and a conspiracy of global proportions that might mean the end of the world as we know it.
  • Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005)
    Review preview for Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

    It's a slick and intoxicating vision to say the least.

    George Williamson · 3.5 out of 5
    Extravagant remake of the Roald Dahl story about a boy who wins a Golden Ticket visit to an eccentric millionaire's sweet factory.
  • The Double (2013)
    Review preview for The Double

    I wished for Billy Wilder's spirit from The Apartment to take over the tone just a little bit.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    Jesse Eisenberg finds his world turned upside down by the arrival of a confident and ambitious doppelganger.
  • Edge Of Tomorrow (2014)
    Review preview for Edge Of Tomorrow

    Cage gets killed over and over and comes back to the same place to start again. Bor-ing!

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A soldier fighting a war with aliens finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle and despite being killed over and over resurrects to save the world with the help of a tall girl in a leotard.
  • Free Fire (2016)
    Review preview for Free Fire

    The director resembles a sniper who remains unseen, but whose presence can nonetheless be felt.

    Paul Risker · 3.5 out of 5
    A meeting between two gangs in a deserted warehouse turns into a shootout.
  • Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life (2003)
    Review preview for Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life

    Lara has changed. No longer a three-dimensional computer game heroine, with enhanced breasts, she has emerged as the next James Bond.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Action sequel sees adventurer Croft on a quest to save Pandora's Box.
  • The Life Aquatic (2004)
    Review preview for The Life Aquatic

    Anderson creates sealed, self-supporting worlds, crammed with excruciating detail.

    The Exile · 4.5 out of 5
    An ageing oceanographer gathers a crew to hunt a shark that killed his partner.
  • Maya The Bee (2014)
    Review preview for Maya The Bee

    Altogether the best exploration of Australian class conflicts through the medium of animated insects that you're likely to see this year.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    When the royal jelly is stolen, a brave little bee must travel across the corn poppy meadow to prove the hornets innocent and end a war.
  • Max (2002)
    Review preview for Max

    Has a dark, post-Apocalyptic feel to it, with a vibrant artistic life.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A friendship between an artist and Hitler as a young man.
  • The New World (2005)
    Review preview for The New World

    Epic, sprawling and inspirational.

    Richard Mellor · 4.5 out of 5
    English nudge out natives, plunder Pocahontas and kick-start some place called America.
  • Paddington 2 (2017)
    Review preview for Paddington 2

    This is exactly what a sequel should be, respectful, goose bumpy and warm hearted

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Paddington gets into a scrape over his Aunt Lucy's birthday present.
  • Red Dog (2011)
    Review preview for Red Dog

    The cast do a splendid job of portraying the rough and tumble inhabitants of the mining town, each with their own problems and desires.

    Lindis Kipp · 5 out of 5
    The story of a Western Australian legend and the tough, warm, independent people whose lives he touched.
  • Red White & Blue (2010)
    Review preview for Red White & Blue

    This isn't just blood and guts mayhem; this is about the mental repercussions of bodily violence.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    A damaged woman strikes up a tentative bond with an Iraq veteran in this psychological horror.
  • Simon Magus (1999)
    Review preview for Simon Magus

    Another example of a film which looks good, sounds good, has a great cast, and is utterly boring.

    Trinity · 3 out of 5
    A new railroad spells trouble for a small town.
  • Simon Magus And The Nine Lives Of Thomas Katz (1999)
    Review preview for Simon Magus And The Nine Lives Of Thomas Katz

    The acting performances, without exception, are excellent.

    Keith Dudhnath · 4 out of 5
    Two films by director Ben Hopkins.
  • Submarine (2010)
    Review preview for Submarine

    Ayoade’s aesthetic choices as well as his many cinematic nods make the film a genuine treat for the cinephile set, but not to the extent of alienating those who may not grab the references to Bergman, Roeg, or the French New Wave.

    Andrew Grant · 4.5 out of 5
    An imaginative 15-year-old is as interested in losing his virginity as he is in saving his parents’ marriage. Plus read our interview with Richard Ayoade.
  • Vanilla Sky (2001)
    Review preview for Vanilla Sky

    Confusion is the name of what stops being a game because after the first hour it's no fun any more.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Tom Cruise is a millionaire New York publisher who falls for Penelope Cruz and smashes his face.
  • The Windmill Massacre (2016)
    Review preview for The Windmill Massacre

    With a lot of characters to deal with, The Windmill Massacre wastes no time on setting up. The basic logic of the situation is quickly established and there’s never much of a pause between deaths.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    When their bus breaks down, tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused barn beside a sinister windmill where, legend has it, a Devil-worshipping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain.

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