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  • The Cell (2000)
    Jennifer Lopez enters the mind of a serial killer in scary scientific experiment.
  • Chrysalis (2007)
    Review preview for Chrysalis

    If the film fails to connect the dots, it is never less than intriguing.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Futuristic French thriller erases memories and fights a serial killer.
  • Emmanuelle 1, 2, 3, 4 (1984)
    Review preview for Emmanuelle 1, 2, 3, 4

    The acting is abysmal and the dubbing appalling.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Soft-porn adventures of a glamorous bisexual.
  • Extraordinary Measures (2010)
    Review preview for Extraordinary Measures

    Tears will be shed as you watch.

    Katy Carter · 3 out of 5
    Two parents race to find a cure for their children's genetic illness.
  • Friendship's Death (1987)
    Review preview for Friendship's Death

    It is hard not to admire a film that manages, for all the shoestring meagreness of its budget, to be so broad in its ambitions.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    A war correspondent's conversation with an extraterrestrial amid the chaos of Black September.
  • The Perfect Sleep (2009)
    Review preview for The Perfect Sleep

    An overwrought, eccentric folly, surely never to be repeated, but truly amazing to behold.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    An assassin returns to a city of his past to try to rescue a lost love.
  • Phenomena (1985)
    Review preview for Phenomena

    This rarely seen Argento gem has it all. We're on ground he's covered before, but it's constantly shifting beneath us.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A girl who has a strange relationship with insects attends boarding school in a small town where a killer is at large.
  • Panic Room (2002)
    Review preview for Panic Room

    The camera soars like a bird, zooming and floating through walls, pressing the audience into a voyeuristic role.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A woman and her daughter are stalked by a trio of thieves on their first night in a luxury apartment, with contains a monitor-equipped safe room.
  • Secretary (2002)
    Review preview for Secretary

    Secretary is a testament to the need to leave politics out of the bedroom and just look at things honestly once in a while.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An unhappy young woman discovers purpose and passion when her boss dishes out spanking sessions.
  • Thieves (2007)
    Review preview for Thieves

    Thieves suffers from a story which is really too slight for its length, but explores its metaphorical aspects in some depth.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A youth taught to steal in early childhood finds himself resorting to it almost compulsively as he searches for his mother.
  • Twin Falls Idaho (1999)
    Review preview for Twin Falls Idaho

    The overall effect is not unlike watching a delicate and subtle poem slowly turn into something altogether more clumsy and prosaic.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Conjoined twins find their world turned upside down by the love of a call girl.
  • A View To A Kill (1985)
    Review preview for A View To A Kill

    Glen keeps a balance between the plot and the action that is believable.

    Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
    The super-spy tackles a psychotic capitalist, bent on destroying Sillicon Valley.

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