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  • Confetti (2006)
    Magazine wedding competition becomes improv mockumentary with tennis balls.
  • Cuban Fury (2014)
    Review preview for Cuban Fury

    Nick Frost's limited comedic talent cannot stretch to a faux South American dance devil with fire in his heels.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    A former salsa star attempts a comeback.
  • Dog Altogether (2007)
    Review preview for Dog Altogether

    Mullan, as usual, blends his trademark emotional rawness and understatement of gesture to powerful effect.

    Dylan Matthew · 4 out of 5
    A man has to deal with the outcome of his rage. Screening alongside Somers Town at many venues.
  • Elsinore (2026)
    Review preview for Elsinore

    Scott’s beacon of light is swallowed up by Stone and Beresford’s heavy-handedness.

    Paul Risker · 3 out of 5
    Account of Ian Charleson’s life, capturing the moment when he faced his own mortality as he prepared to play Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre.
  • Empire Of Light (2022)
    Review preview for Empire Of Light

    With Roger Deakins handling the cinematography and making the most of the magical light found on parts of England’s south coast, the film never ceases to be visually absorbing.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A peek into the lives of staff at a cinema in an English seaside town in the early 1980s.
  • The Father (2020)
    Review preview for The Father

    Zeller elegantly and scarily fuses dream logic with markers of past trauma.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Anthony is 80 years old. He lives alone in London and refuses the caregivers that his daughter tries to impose upon him. Yet his need for help is becoming more pressing.
  • The Favourite (2018)
    Review preview for The Favourite

    The dialogue is irreverent and sharp like a raven's claw.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Two of Queen Anne's acolytes jockey for position.
  • Grow Your Own (2007)
    Review preview for Grow Your Own

    This derivative drama might have worked quite well as a four-part mini Sunday night series for the BBC. As a film, however, it fails on almost every count.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Allotment stuffed shirts learn some tolerance thanks to an influx of refugees.
  • Hot Fuzz (2007)
    Review preview for Hot Fuzz

    Formulaic but exuberant, packed with quirky humour and very difficult not to like.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Tongue-in-cheek British twist on the buddy cop genre.
  • Hyde Park On Hudson (2012)
    Review preview for Hyde Park On Hudson

    Are Bill Murray's fabulous presidential brogues what is worth remembering most, or are some of the statements about gender still valid commentary?

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
  • The Iron Lady (2011)
    Review preview for The Iron Lady

    Anyone over the age of 35 will find the whistle-stop, romanticised tour of Thatcher's career offers scarcely any insight, skating over most of the interesting issues.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Biopic of Margaret Thatcher.
  • Jimpa (2025)
    Review preview for Jimpa

    The film’s initial loose and enjoyable construction gradually drifts towards a drawn-out and repetitive melodramatic conclusion.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Hannah takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim - lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances’ desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.
  • Joyride (2022)
    Review preview for Joyride

    The director does achieve some quiet drama - a kiss on a cheek, an attempt at breast feeding - but elsewhere, it feels as though a committee was insisting on moments of 'quirky humour'.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A woman planning to give up her baby finds herself on an oddball roadtrip with a 12-year-old.
  • The Kármán Line (2014)
    Review preview for The Kármán Line

    The Kármán Line packs a punch in the emotional stakes thanks to an excellent cast who all invest their characters with warmth and humour.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    A woman develops a rare illness causing her to lift off the ground at a slow but increasing rate.
  • The Lost Daughter (2021)
    Review preview for The Lost Daughter

    The film comes into its own because of Gyllenhaal's non-judgemental perspective, even sympathy, for the small suffocations of motherhood.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A holidaying professor finds an encounter with another family triggers memories of motherhood from her past
  • Locke (2013)
    Review preview for Locke

    It's like a suicide. And there's nothing to look at

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A man drives through the night, listening to mobile phone calls, as his life falls apart.
  • The Mitchells Vs The Machines (2021)
    Review preview for The Mitchells Vs The Machines

    Mayhem ensues - occasionally too much of it

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A family find themselves trying to avert the robot apocalypse.
  • Mothering Sunday (2021)
    Review preview for Mothering Sunday

    The façade of a happy picnic shows all the cracks, despite the lovely geese flying overhead.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
  • Murder On The Orient Express (2017)
    Review preview for Murder On The Orient Express

    If Ustinov emphasised the humour of Poirot and Suchet the meticulousness, Branagh manages to bridge the two, while also bringing an unexpected note of soulfulness and melancholy to his performance.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    When a man is killed on a train, the Belgian sleuth steps in to investigate.
  • Nasrin (2020)
    Review preview for Nasrin

    Considerable courage has gone into acquiring this footage.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Portrait of Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is serving a prison sentence of 38 years in Iran for representing women who protested the country’s mandatory hijab law.
  • Peep Show: Series 1 (2003)
    Review preview for Peep Show: Series 1

    Mitchell and Webb have been a double act for quite some time and this is apparent in their inspired interplay.

    Keith Dudhnath · 5 out of 5
    Classic odd couple flatmates TV sitcom, with tried and tested stand-up double act.
  • Peep Show: The Complete Second Series (2004)
    Review preview for Peep Show: The Complete Second Series

    At times puerile and immature, at others witty and smart, Peep Show will have you laughing out loud throughout every episode.

    Steve Harwood · 4.5 out of 5
    Between the pub and the girl lies a secret pleasure - the perfect sitcom.
  • Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
    Review preview for Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

    A real return to form, a fully developed story in its own right.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: he has burned through eight of his nine lives. He sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore them.
  • Pudsey The Dog: The Movie (2014)
    Review preview for Pudsey The Dog: The Movie

    What a shame that those aiming to cash in on the cute mutt's charms with this low-rent film didn't look for a better script.

    Amber Wilkinson · 1 out of 5
    The Britain's Got Talent favourite gets a starring role.
  • Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
    Review preview for Ron's Gone Wrong

    This is an animated kids' movie in a furrow well ploughed.

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    Ron, a Bubble Bot damaged in transit, is wreaking havoc and only young Barney can make things right.
  • That Mitchell And Webb Look: Series One (2006)
    Review preview for That Mitchell And Webb Look: Series One

    Importantly, unlike some shows which make the leap from sound-only to screen, they have taken the opportunity to revisit the sketches and beef them up visually, so that they take on a life in their own right.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    First series of the BAFTA-winning sketch show.
  • Them That Follow (2019)
    Review preview for Them That Follow

    In terms of mood, directors Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage do a lot with a little, allowing the plot to coil round the characters.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Inside a snake-handling church deep in Appalachia, a forbidden relationship forces a pastor’s daughter to confront her community’s deadly tradition.
  • Tyrannosaur (2011)
    Review preview for Tyrannosaur

    What really stands out in Tyrannosaur, however, are the towering performances.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A man plagued by inner rage forms an unexpected relationship with an abused woman.
  • Wicked Little Letters (2023)
    Review preview for Wicked Little Letters

    A curious case of real-life poison pen letters is given an oddly cosy retelling in this well-polished if tonally uneven drama.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    When people in Littlehampton start receiving scandalous and obscene letters, suspicion immediately falls on fiery Rose, who might lose the custody of her daughter. A group of women set out to solve the mystery.
  • Wonka (2023)
    Review preview for Wonka

    Sweet, light, funny and perhaps most merrily, musical.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.

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