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  • The Animal Kingdom (2023)
    Review preview for The Animal Kingdom

    The aerial shots of the forest and the believable transformations with feathers, wings, beaks and claws as well as fish scales, make for riveting viewing.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Sci-fi adventure set in a world where humans are mutating into "creatures".
  • Afterwards (2008)
    Review preview for Afterwards

    As technically accomplished as it might be, this is a ponderous and interminable experience.

    James Benefield · 1.5 out of 5
    An attorney is haunted by his past.
  • All The Money In The World (2017)
    Review preview for All The Money In The World

    These are the pigments of luminous cinema.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III.
  • The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2004)
    Review preview for The Beat That My Heart Skipped

    Jacques Audiard's film isn't intended as a replacement for Toback's wild-eyed and masterly [Fingers], but rather a deliberately assured take on the same material.

    Scott Macdonald · 3.5 out of 5
    A young heavy, following in his father's violent footsteps yearns for something more.
  • The Big Picture (2010)
    Review preview for The Big Picture

    Romain Duris is excellent as the main character.

    Val Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Paul Exben has the perfect life, but when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error.
  • Black Tide (2018)
    Review preview for Black Tide

    Erick Zonca is less interested in solving the mystery than in exploring the damaged psyches of Visconti and Bellaile.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    An alcoholic cop investigates the disappearance of a teenager who is the same age as his son.
  • Dans Paris (2006)
    Review preview for Dans Paris

    Dans Paris is about love – between brothers, father, girlfriends – and suicide... adding dollops of languor and a good deal of sex.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Love, sex, suicide and depression filmed Truffaut style.
  • Le Divorce (2003)
    Review preview for Le Divorce

    Everything about the film is ill-judged, miscast and intellectually anorexic.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Rom-com centring two Americans in Paris.
  • Dobermann (1997)
    Review preview for Dobermann

    The humour bites your face. The popvid camera tricks are tempered by a storyline that demands attention.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Violent action flick sees sadistic cop hunt a gang of dangerous nutters.
  • Heartbreaker (2010)
    Review preview for Heartbreaker

    The comedy is soft, the story’s predictable and the clichés line up like pretty little dolls.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A professional gigolo has one week to stop a loving couple tie the knot in Monte Carlo.
  • Mrs Hyde (2017)
    Review preview for Mrs Hyde

    Although we alight at many points of interest throughout the journey, we never stop long enough anywhere to explore.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    After a teacher is struck by lightning, she discovers a powerful and dangerous alter ego.
  • Moliere (2007)
    Review preview for Moliere

    From the opening credits, this is a visual treat.

    Val Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    An imaginative look at the 'lost' months of playwright Molière's life, in the style of one of his plays.
  • Mood Indigo (2013)
    Review preview for Mood Indigo

    The overkill threatens to bludgeon the much-loved book into an over-wrought exercise in style.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    This dreamlike story of two pairs of lovers, a cook and a kitchen mouse is an adaptation of the cult novel by French writer Boris Vian.
  • The New Girlfriend (2014)
    Review preview for The New Girlfriend

    Sexuality, Francois Ozon's latest film declares, can be as complex as desiring another person can be simple.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    When a woman falls seriously ill her friend gets more than she bargained for after pledging to look after her baby and husband.
  • Populaire (2012)
    Review preview for Populaire

    Populaire benefits from a savvy script with multi-layered humour and from superb work by its stars.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    An insurance agent grooms a wayward secretary for a speed typing contest, and falls in love in the process.
  • Paris (2008)
    Review preview for Paris

    A film you'll never forget.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A medical diagnosis leaves a young dancer and his sister in care(e)r gridlock.
  • Pot Luck (2002)
    Review preview for Pot Luck

    Their adventures and scrapes and close encounters of the emotional kind are wittily chronicled in Xavier's short history of his life so far.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    An observant, shy Frenchman becomes a student in Barcelona for a year.
  • The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)
    Review preview for The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan

    It's big, traditional, film-making, anchored in some quality performances.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    D'Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three musketeers of the King.
  • The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023)
    Review preview for The Three Musketeers: Milady

    Dumas may have provided the mettle but everyone here has sharpened it.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    D'Artagnan is forced to join forces with Milady to save Constance, who was kidnapped before his eyes. But as war is declared and Athos, Porthos and Aramis have already joined the front, a secret from the past shatters old alliances.

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