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  • Coming Home (2012)
    Review preview for Coming Home

    Despite the fine cast, and some striking, color-drained cinematography, A Moi Seule doesn't have enough psychological complexity.

    Owen Van Spall · 2 out of 5
    Story of a kidnapped woman and what happens to her after release.
  • Hippocrates (2014)
    Review preview for Hippocrates

    Hippocrates is an engaging coming-of-age drama centring on the problems within public medicine in France as budget cuts bite.

    Rebecca Naughten · 3.5 out of 5
    A young doctor encounters challenges he didn't expect in his first post, working for his father.
  • Lost River (2014)
    Review preview for Lost River

    The plot quickly runs out of narrative drive, preferring to deluge the senses with symbolic and surrealistic images.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.
  • Paris Countdown (2013)
    Review preview for Paris Countdown

    For all its bombast – the thwacks, the thuds, the slowed-down bang of a gunshot – one never really believes these guys are in trouble.

    Michael Pattison · 2.5 out of 5
    Two ageing nightclub owners find events slipping out of control one dangerous night.
  • Promises (2021)
    Review preview for Promises

    If Kruithof’s main ambition with Promises is to make audiences debate and ponder over the relationships between politicians and the public then it is definitely succeeds in its efforts to bring these puzzling and interesting topics to light.

    Stephanie Brown · 3.5 out of 5
    A mayor in the final term of her political career faces a choice between integrity and ambition.
  • A Prophet (2009)
    Review preview for A Prophet

    An unlikely, but highly effective, marriage of arthouse and mainstream sensibilities.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    An illiterate teenager struggles when he is sent to jail, but after embarking on a series of "missions" for a gang leader, he begins to hatch plans of his own.
  • Silent Voices (2009)
    Review preview for Silent Voices

    Lea Fehner bites off more than she can chew.

    James Benefield · 2 out of 5
    A prison in Marseille forms the centrepiece of a series of interlocking stories.
  • The White Knights (2015)
    Review preview for The White Knights

    A fiercely intellectual film, Lafosse shears away any shred of sentimentality, although humanism remains.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Dramatisation of the Zoe's Ark controversy.
  • Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
    Review preview for Zero Dark Thirty

    If you've read the paper during the last ten years, you won't get much new insight here.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 2.5 out of 5
    A recreation of the ten year hunt by US agents for Osama bin Laden.

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