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  • Devil Girl From Mars (1954)
    Review preview for Devil Girl From Mars

    Part of the charm of Devil Girl From Mars is how seriously the movie takes itself.

    Donald Munro · 2.5 out of 5
    An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earthmen as breeding stock.
  • Devil Woman (2018)
    Review preview for Devil Woman

    There's a fair helping of gore at the end, but not much else.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A forest protester gets bitten by a devil and transforms into a monster.
  • Diane In The Loop (2026)
    Review preview for Diane In The Loop

    Unexpectedly playful given the weight of the subject

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    When a woman discovers her mum was raped some years before she was born, she plans vengeance, but her mother has other ideas. Things become complicated.
  • The Divine Order (2017)
    Review preview for The Divine Order

    Leuenberger makes Nora's gradual awakening to gender issues feel like the sun coming out on a dreary day, brimful of unexpected warmth.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A small-town mum joins the suffrage movement in Switzerland.
  • Doin' My Drugs (2020)
    Review preview for Doin' My Drugs

    It is the fear of the stigma, the unknown and the misinformation about HIV that Doin’ My Drugs makes its predominant mission to correct - a society where people can be open about their status, and more importantly one where they no longer fear being teste

    Stephanie Brown · 5 out of 5
    Thomas Muchimba returns to his native Zambia to share the knowledge he has learned from his familial experiences with HIV and AIDS.
  • Downwind (2023)
    Review preview for Downwind

    There’s such a huge story here that it’s astonishing that it hasn’t been put on film before.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of the nuclear testing which took place in Mercury, Nevada, where 928 nuclear weapons were detonated between 1951 - 1992.
  • Dracula (1958)
    Review preview for Dracula

    Constantly chilling and never less than eerie, this first colour outing for Vlad is undoubtedly the stuff of nightmares.

    Stephen Carty · 4.5 out of 5
    Adaptation of the classic vampire tale.
  • Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
    Review preview for Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

    This film's sharp political observations are as relevant now as they ever were.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Classic black comedy about frantic politicians trying to avert a nuclear war.
  • Dying Of The Light (2014)
    Review preview for Dying Of The Light

    A largely conventional thriller about the last-gasp of mission of a die-hard CIA agent that is lent moments of surprising poignancy and glimmers of madness thanks to Nic Cage's performance.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A dementia-hit CIA agent goes rogue to take down an old enemy.
  • Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)
    Review preview for Dead Rising: Watchtower

    This film's attempt to contextualise a zombie threat as something more deeply political is clumsy at best.

    Luke Shaw · 1 out of 5
    Video game spin-off sees a group of people try to survive a zombie attack.
  • Dean Spanley (2008)
    Review preview for Dean Spanley

    This is a U-rated family film with more tasty stuffing in it than most of the dressed Christmas turkeys that get released at this time of year.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    A dean recounts tales of his past life... as a dog.
  • Death At A Funeral (2007)
    Review preview for Death At A Funeral

    For farce to work well, the plotting needs to be watertight, whereas here the sheer excess of characters fails entirely to cover up this film's flimsy underpinnings.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    Funeral farce.
  • Death Car On The Freeway (1979)
    Review preview for Death Car On The Freeway

    A sharp, cleverly structured film that deserves to be more widely known.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A van driver targets female motorists on the highway.
  • Deepwater (2005)
    Review preview for Deepwater

    Hokum and a lamentably OTT ending ruin what had been a pleasingly ponderous piece of pap.

    Richard Mellor · 2 out of 5
    A drifter becomes sucked into the shady dealings of a businessman after saving him from an accident. But will the businessman's wife prove his downfall?
  • The Deep End (2001)
    Review preview for The Deep End

    Suture, have avoided every cliche of film noir.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A mother tries to protect her son from suspicion after his lover is found dead.
  • De-Lovely (2004)
    Review preview for De-Lovely

    It is impossible to be down on the film when the many songs radiate such wit and style and keep the whole show rolling.

    Stephanie Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Musical based on the life of Cole Porter.
  • Desperate Measures (1998)
    Review preview for Desperate Measures

    Keaton half-deranged is an improvement on Keaton half funny.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A bone marrow transplant from a sociopath is the last remaining hope for a cop's son.
  • Diary For My Children (1984)
    Review preview for Diary For My Children

    The film delicately and daringly places a specific time and place in history under the microscope.

    James Gracey · 4.5 out of 5
    An orphan returns to her native Hungary.
  • DiG! (2004)
    Review preview for DiG!

    An energetic, insightful look into the dysfunctional, drug fuelled world of the modern pop musician.

    Bradley Brasier · 4 out of 5
    Two bands turn from friends to rivals as they struggle to make it big in the Nineties rock scene.
  • Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle (2017)
    Review preview for Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle

    Sng makes no bones about the fact this is a campaigning film, firmly voicing an argument that home ownership is not the main thing we should be striving for - but he does manage to keep a level of political balance.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    An examination of Britain's housing crisis.
  • Doctor Who And The Daleks (1965)
    Review preview for Doctor Who And The Daleks

    When those metal monsters take to the screen, it's non-stop fun and extermination.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    The Doctor and his companions travel to the planet Skaro and try to help the Thals escape the nuclear menace posed by the daleks.
  • Doctor Who: Series Two (2006)
    Review preview for Doctor Who: Series Two

    Tennant’s Doc is less haunted by past events than his predecessor and more of an infectious enthusiast, but there’s no doubting the gobby Scot is very, very likeable.

    Stephen Carty · 3 out of 5
    Torchwood, Cybermen and Madame De Pompadour - oh, my! And Peter Kay running around in a fat suit.
  • 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.
  • The Door Stop (2005)
    The inner rage of a small, bald bouncer.
  • Down The Road (2007)
    Review preview for Down The Road

    A frantic, classic piece, with a sting in the tail.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A dark thriller about a vicar who picks up a hitchhiker.
  • Do It Again (2009)
    Review preview for Do It Again

    Geoff's campaign is more interesting as an exploration of his own failings than as the insightful rockumentary it purports to be.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A documentary following a middle aged journalist's quest to reunite The Kinks.
  • Dragonflies (2001)
    Review preview for Dragonflies

    Using handheld camera and naturalistic lighting, director Marius Holst's style might be summarised as Dogme-lite.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3 out of 5
    Secrets from the past are prized open when an ex-con comes to see a couple in the country.
  • Drag Me To Hell (2009)
    Review preview for Drag Me To Hell

    Manages to include a whole stack of annoying cliches, stereotypes and habits that it could well do without.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A bank clerk having a bad day crosses an old gypsy woman and is afflicted with terrible curse.
  • Dr Dolittle (1998)
    Review preview for Dr Dolittle

    Scriptwriters Nat Mauldin and Larry Levin lack vision to lift the movie out of TV sitcomland.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A vet discovers he can talk to the animals.
  • Due South: The Complete Second Series (1995)
    A Canadian Mountie with superhuman detective abilities, a hard-nosed street cop from the Windy City and a deaf wolf. Together, they fight crime!
  • Durant's Never Closes (2016)
    Review preview for Durant's Never Closes

    Durant's Never Closes is unlikely to be a breakthrough film, but where Durant is remembered as a local force to be reckoned with, it will have strong audience appeal.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A biopic of bar owner Jack Durant.
  • Dying Breed (2008)
    Review preview for Dying Breed

    Dwyer has taken this cinematically uncharted landscape and, like the convict runners of old, transported to it all manner of unsavoury foreign elements.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Four friends find out something - or someone - murderous lurks in the rain-slogged Australian bush.
  • The Dying Gaul (2005)
    A recently bereaved screenwriter struggles to get his film produced without too many compromises, but personal compromises can be much more dangerous.
  • Earthling (2010)
    Review preview for Earthling

    In the real world of coincidence and logic there has to be meaning in order to contain the terror that naturally arises from unnatural occurances.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A group of people on Earth discover they aren't who they thought they were.
  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (2003)
    Review preview for Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

    This is a comprehensive and uncompromising look at some of the films that still influence many independent filmmakers today.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Documentary about 70s cinema.
  • Eat Pretty (2018)
    Review preview for Eat Pretty

    Rebecca Culverhouse's film is somewhere in a the realm of tableaux vivants, of stereogrammatic .gif sets, of brief moments somewhere around the repeated rustle that Vine left.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    An experimental horror short that explores the link between social media, isolation and eating disorders.
  • Elf (2003)
    Review preview for Elf

    Another John Hughes wannabe cuddle bunny of a movie, as sharp as butter fudge.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    A human who grew up thinking he was an elf goes in search of his dad.
  • 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.
  • Employee Of The Month (2021)
    Review preview for Employee Of The Month

    Where the film shines is in the incidental details, the small observations and asides which contribute to setting the tone.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Black comedy. An employee at a cleaning products company accidentally commits a messily bloody crime – and must figure out how to cover her tracks with the help of her young trainee.
  • The Endless (2017)
    Review preview for The Endless

    The proportion of films opening with HP Lovecraft quotes that manage to live up to the visionary writer's work verges on the infinitesimal, but The Endless is one of the special ones.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Years after escaping a cult as teenagers, brothers Aaron and Justin return to their former home after receiving a mysterious message. While Aaron is quickly drawn back into the fold, Justin remains uneasy.
  • The End Of Us (2021)
    Review preview for The End Of Us

    There are just enough events to keep things interesting without distracting from the fact that it's really the sameness of things that is behind the character interactions we see.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    After a savage breakup, two exes must continue living together when California issues its stay-at-home order for Covid-19. Now they’ll try to move on without moving out.
  • Erasing Frank (2021)
    Review preview for Erasing Frank

    While it's hard to say that Fabricius's film is completely fresh, it is undoubtedly up-to-date and effective.

    Mateusz Tarwacki · 3.5 out of 5
    The singer of a banned punk band is taken to a psychiatric hospital in an attempt to silence him.
  • Erin Brockovich (1999)
    Review preview for Erin Brockovich

    Finney adds definite class to Roberts high octane performance.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A feisty single mother uncovers a toxic scandal.
  • Escape From LA (1996)
    Review preview for Escape From LA

    Degenerates into a haphazard mish-mash of special effects, action set pieces and largely pointless cameos.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2 out of 5
    By-the-numbers remake-cum-sequel to Escape from New York.
  • E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
    Review preview for E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial

    It showcases Spielberg's gifts for light comedy, spectacle, and fairy tale celuloid sorcery.

    Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
    Spielberg's beloved classic about a stranded and lonely alien.
  • Extreme Measures (1996)
    Review preview for Extreme Measures

    There isn't a massive amount of 'action' per say, but Apted's expertly-paced tale throbs with genuine suspense as the net progressively closes in on Guy.

    Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5
    A surgeon begins to suspect one of his eminent colleagues may be in the business of harming rather than healing people.
  • Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
    Review preview for Eyes Wide Shut

    You are never sure what is actually happening, what is real and what is pretending to be real.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    A doctor embarks on a sexual adventure after a chance remark by his wife leads him to question monogamy.
  • Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films (2014)
    Review preview for Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films

    A breezy, captivating and balanced tale of a studio whose rise and fall is perhaps the only story actually more bizarre than the plots of the films that came out of it.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    Examination of exploitation cinema.
  • Elegy (2008)
    Review preview for Elegy

    Elegy is well acted by both the lead and the supporting actors, which helps in carrying the emotional load of the film forward.

    Maryam Ghorbankarimi · 2.5 out of 5
    A college lecturer becomes obsessed by the student with whom he is having an affair.
  • Elvis & Nixon (2016)
    Review preview for Elvis & Nixon

    Dangerously thin on purpose

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Elvis goes to the White House to ask the President to make him a Federal Agent At Large.

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