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  • The Darkest Hour (2011)
    Review preview for The Darkest Hour

    I'm surprised that there wasn't a tech on set who could have told people how electricity works.

    Donald Munro · 1 out of 5
    Five English speakers in Moscow try to survive an alien invasion.
  • Damascus Cover (2017)
    Review preview for Damascus Cover

    Daniel Zelk Berk’s feature has all the essential ingredients of a political thriller - a moody grey-blue filter, a tingling, foreboding score and people throwing back whiskies while staring drearily into space.

    Emilia Rolewicz · 3 out of 5
    A German spy must retrieve a chemical weapons expert in Syria in the wake of the fall of Berlin Wall.
  • Dredd (2012)
    Review preview for Dredd

    Pete Travis works hard to bring John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's apocalyptic vision to life.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    In the violent dystopia of Mega City One, only the judges can keep order.
  • Juno (2007)
    Review preview for Juno

    The proverbial buzz surrounding Juno is, like, totally justified.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    A teenager finds her own way of dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
  • Lousy Carter (2023)
    Review preview for Lousy Carter

    Lousy Carter provides pleasant enough distraction in the moment but gives viewers very little to take away.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Variously labeled as a deadbeat by his ex, a failure by his mother, and a shell of himself by his best friend, Lousy Carter is falling apart, debt-ridden and cast adrift. As he interprets The Great Gatsby for an antipathetic graduate class, one of the students offers Lousy Carter one last chance at living the dream.
  • Love Comes Lately (2007)
    Review preview for Love Comes Lately

    This tale of elderly amour, centering on a Jewish New York author, is sweet enough.

    Tony Sullivan · 2 out of 5
    An old man dreams of sex.
  • The Senator (2017)
    Review preview for The Senator

    Undeniably, powerfully, tragic, a tale of ambition, bad decisions, cover-ups if not conspiracy - actual smoke-filled back rooms and dirt-road meetings notwithstanding - it is sympathetic to its protagonist but only so far.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A dramatisation of events around Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claimed the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
  • The Wackness (2007)
    Review preview for The Wackness

    What really hold the attention in this playful comedy are the central perfomances.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A teen drug dealer swaps spliffs for psychiatry in the long, hot New York summer of 1994.
  • The Wedding Ringer (2015)
    Review preview for The Wedding Ringer

    Painfully unimaginative

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for grooms in need.

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