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  • Beautiful Blue Eyes (2009)
    Review preview for Beautiful Blue Eyes

    Worth watching for the performances, Beautiful Blue Eyes still feels like a bit of a missed opportunity.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A retired police officer seeks revenge against an elderly man he's convinced is the Nazi who slaughtered his family during World War Two.
  • Chicago 10 (2006)
    Dramatised reconstruction and archival footage concerning the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago the subsequent “civil unrest” and trials that followed.
  • The French Connection (1971)
    Review preview for The French Connection

    Friedkin's trend-setting handheld-camera gives a documentary-style feel, puting you right in among the tense surveillance and hunch-following legwork.

    Stephen Carty · 3.5 out of 5
    An unorthodox cop and his partner are hot on the tail of a heroin shipment.
  • Jaws (1975)
    Review preview for Jaws

    Jaws is a well-made, nuanced, gamble of a film that paid off handsomely and assured Spielberg's future.

    Chris · 4.5 out of 5
    A small seaside community dependent on tourism is terrorised by a great white shark with a hunger for human flesh.
  • Naked Lunch (1991)
    Review preview for Naked Lunch

    Jim Isaacs's creatures are remarkable, as is the film - unique, disturbing, wicked.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    An addict writer descends into a hallucinatory existence after accidentally killing his wife.
  • Seaquest DSV: Series 1 (1993)
    Review preview for Seaquest DSV: Series 1

    A soggy experience.

    Andrea Mullaney · 2 out of 5
    The missions of an underwater team, with added dolphin.

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