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  • 22 Jump Street (2014)
    Review preview for 22 Jump Street

    Ideal summer entertainment.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    Schmidt and Jenko go undercover at a college.
  • 8mm (1999)
    Review preview for 8mm

    The plot produces one of those surprise twists that reinforces its decline into gratuitous cliché.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Nic Cage is a PI, hired to find out whether a 'snuff film' is genuine.
  • Armageddon (1998)
    Review preview for Armageddon

    The film goes for broke. No safety net. No apologies. Believing in itself.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A drill team head to space to stop an asteroid destroying Earth.
  • Autumn Blood (2011)
    Review preview for Autumn Blood

    A superb piece of work.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Two orphans living high in the mountains are threatened by a gang of local men and must face a brutal struggle to survive.
  • Bad Company (2002)
    Review preview for Bad Company

    The jokes dry up, because Rock is a one-gag guy

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock conduct a sting on Russian Mafia in Prague.
  • Bad Boys II (2003)
    Review preview for Bad Boys II

    The film never seems to want to end.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Sequel to the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence action comedy about drugs and cops and explosions.
  • The Big Lebowski (1997)
    Review preview for The Big Lebowski

    Nobody plays lazy like Jeff Bridges. You could say he was born to it. Or rather, he's such a good actor he makes it look as natural as an unmade bed.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    After someone puts the pee into rug, its owner goes in search of recompense from the man who shares his name.
  • The Brothers Grimm (2005)
    Review preview for The Brothers Grimm

    The true fault lies with the script, which brings no life to the real, or indeed fantasy, characters.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Bogus ghostbusters finally meet their match in a genuine enchanted forest.
  • Chocolat (2000)
    Review preview for Chocolat

    The character is more sentimental, than exacting.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Fairy story about a woman who provides a breath of fresh air to a small French town.
  • Constantine (2005)
    Review preview for Constantine

    Constantine is best enjoyed by ignoring the Milton-centric mythology and surrendering to the movie's lush atmosphere and wicked performances.

    The Exile · 4 out of 5
    The comic book adventures of a chain smoking paranormal gumshoe in post-apocalyptic LA.
  • Cryptozoo (2021)
    Review preview for Cryptozoo

    Its Jurassic Park style themes concerning failed Utopias passed through the prism of Sixties politics and activism have a certain childlike simplicity to them and, as such, are likely to prove more endearing to some audiences than others.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    As cryptozookeepers struggle to capture a Baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) they begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in the confines of a cryptozoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown.
  • Circus (1999)
    Review preview for Circus

    To call this Brit flick too clever by half, flatters it.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    The con is on... but it's too clever by half.
  • Clown (2014)
    Review preview for Clown

    The problem with Clown is that, beyond that premise, there really isn't very much of substance.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A father puts on a clown costume for his son's birthday but then discovers he can't take it off - and worse, it's possessed by a demon.
  • Dancer In The Dark (2000)
    Review preview for Dancer In The Dark

    Bjork demonstrates an intuitive talent for acting that breaks your heart.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A Czech migrant saves for an eye op for her son while dreaming of Hollywood song and dance numbers.
  • Fargo (1996)
    Review preview for Fargo

    Either the Coens have no conception of reality, or the people they write about lost the place half way between there and here.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    A cocked up kidnap leads to mayhem and murder.
  • Food And Romance (2022)
    Review preview for Food And Romance

    This set-up may be a little clumsy, but lively ensemble performances and magnificent production design give the film has a lived-in feeling, a depth and richness which make its excesses much easier to accept

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A sixtysomething housewife reevaluates her life as she rediscovers her passion for cooking and falls for a chef.
  • The Grand Duke Of Corsica (2021)
    Review preview for The Grand Duke Of Corsica

    Spall commits himself fully to the role.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A celebrated architect is commissioned by a dying billionaire to build a mausoleum.
  • Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
    Review preview for Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

    It might not be designed to win any of this season's awards or linger in the memory, but this is a hell of a lot more fun than other recent fairy-tale reboots.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    The famous brother and sister team take revenge for their childhood trauma.
  • How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2012)
    Review preview for How I Spent My Summer Vacation

    Gibson effortlessly resumes the back-talking bad-ass of Riggs and Porter with self-assured aplomb

    Merlin Harries · 4 out of 5
    A tough criminal imprisoned in a foreign jail learns how to survive from a nine year old boy.
  • John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
    Review preview for John Wick: Chapter 2

    Slowly but surely the wonder of moving pictures bleeds to death in the corner of your mind

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    John Wick faces trouble when a bounty is put on his life after a killing spree of gut wrenching proportions
  • Lockout (2012)
    Review preview for Lockout

    An occasionally agreeable whiff of fromage isn't enough to excuse such amateurish film-making.

    David Graham · 1.5 out of 5
    A wrongly convicted man is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from space prison rioters.
  • Mercury Rising (1998)
    Review preview for Mercury Rising

    This is formula fare. Nothing wrong with that when it's given serious treatment.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Bruce Willis's undercover agent steps in to protect a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked a top-secret code.
  • The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
    Review preview for The Million Dollar Hotel

    Wim Wenders films this dysfunctional love story in a tricksy cinematic manner, adding another layer of pretension to the already overloaded dumpster.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    After a billionaire's son dies, the FBI investigate the eccentric residents of a skid row hotel.
  • Minority Report (2002)
    Review preview for Minority Report

    Flashy future technology and architecture has been cleverly interwoven with the familiar, even the old-fashioned, to create a world which we can believe is not too far away from our own.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Sci-fi thriller about cops who predict murder before it happens with the use of psychics.
  • Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
    Review preview for Penguins of Madagascar

    The pace accelerates through 15 stages of excitement without stopping to refuel

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Four young penguins become embroiled in an animated power play between an evil octopus and a grey wolf.
  • Prison Break: Complete Season 1 (2005)
    A man gets sent to jail to mastermind a breakout that will save his brother's life. Out to own on DVD now.
  • Premonition (2007)
    Review preview for Premonition

    There are two main problems with this film - firstly, you can see the emotional resolution coming a mile off, secondly, you're not actually sure what's happened by the end of play.

    Martin Gray · 3 out of 5
    A young mother wakes to find her newly dead husband is alive again. Was it a premonition?
  • The Tuxedo (2002)
    Review preview for The Tuxedo

    The Tuxedo is like a Chinese meal. You've forgotten it half an hour later.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Jackie Chan fights Manhattan bad guys in a magic dinner suit that gives him special powers.
  • Windtalkers (2002)
    Review preview for Windtalkers

    John Woo specialises in the spectacle of violent death and, after a while, this becomes monotonous.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Nicolas Cage babysits radio operators during at attack on a Japanese island in WWII.
  • The Zero Theorem (2013)
    Review preview for The Zero Theorem

    The Zero Theorem is a messy mélange of broad pratfalls, challenged idealism, dark satire, and expansive, indeed cosmic allegory - but it also .cannot escape being seen as a kind of Brazil vers. 2.0.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A reclusive computer genius, plagued with existential angst, works on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the meaning of life.

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