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  • Amelie (2001)
    Review preview for Amelie

    Jeunet has such an imaginative approach to film that he creates an atmosphere of magic.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A girl with an eccentric, repressed childhood grows up attracted to the odd detail in everyday life and to the strangest people.
  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
    Review preview for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

    A good example of the contents of tins doing exactly what they say.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    The president has a stake in a deadly game.
  • All Things To All Men (2013)
    Review preview for All Things To All Men

    All fur coat and no knickers.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A bent copper tries to rip off a kingpin.
  • Amazing Grace (2006)
    A dramatic look at the legal and cultural processes which led to the abolition of slavery.
  • Arcadia (2016)
    Review preview for Arcadia

    Large's rather flat directorial style doesn't give Baylis much to work with.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    In a dystopian future, a man is promised refuge for himself and his daughter if he will take out an enemy of the state.
  • Bless The Child (2000)
    Review preview for Bless The Child

    Basinger can't run. Her acting is lame as well.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Good and evil battle for the soul of a six-year-old.
  • The Believer (2001)
    Review preview for The Believer

    The intelligence of the writing and the intensity of Ryan Gosling's performance takes it out of the shock horror budget bin.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    An intelligent Jewish boy grows up into an urban terrorist who hates Judaism.
  • The City Of Lost Children (1995)
    Review preview for The City Of Lost Children

    This is a work of originality without precedent, unique and unsafe.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A fairground strongman searches for his brother in a grotesque world of artificial intelligence.
  • Dark City (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City

    What [director Proyas] does here is juggle genres and lop the dead cells from the brains of old cliches.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Film noir plotting meets a fiendish science fiction underworld in an extravagant fantasy.
  • Dark City: Director's Cut (1998)
    Review preview for Dark City: Director's Cut

    A stylish and engrossing mystery - an immature, yet energetic explosion of storytelling ideas.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    Extravagant sci-fi fantasy about a hunted man struggling with his memory gets a directorial polish.
  • The Father (2020)
    Review preview for The Father

    Zeller elegantly and scarily fuses dream logic with markers of past trauma.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Anthony is 80 years old. He lives alone in London and refuses the caregivers that his daughter tries to impose upon him. Yet his need for help is becoming more pressing.
  • Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (2021)
    Review preview for Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song

    The end result could do with less tangent and more of the gent himself.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah.
  • Happiness (1998)
    Review preview for Happiness

    Todd Solondz's investigation into the suburban psyche is so disturbing, it's funny, although when humour slides into the realms of nightmare, laughs congeal in the throat.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Sex in suburbia.
  • The Holiday (2006)
    Review preview for The Holiday

    The Holiday is a romantic comedy. You know what that means.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    An American woman and an Englishwoman swap houses for a holiday and discover romance.
  • The Honest Courtesan (1998)
    Review preview for The Honest Courtesan

    Marshall Herskovitz, who made Legends Of The Fall into a remedy for insomnia, directs from the sitting position.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A Venetian who is too low-class to marry the man she loves, becomes a courtesan.
  • The Illusionist (2006)
    Review preview for The Illusionist

    The strength of the film is its ability to suspend disbelief and engage the audience with its mastery of mystery.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    A dangerous love story infused by the magic of assumed reality.
  • Judy (2019)
    Review preview for Judy

    This is a mainstream consideration of Garland's life but Zellweger brings fine art to its more broad brush moments.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Biopic focusing on the life of Judy Garland six months before her death.
  • A Knight's Tale (2001)
    Review preview for A Knight's Tale

    What matters more is whether this mixture of stunt riding spectacle and tongue-in-cheek works. Surprisingly, it does. Almost.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A peasant pretends to be a nobleman in order to compete on the jousting circuit.
  • The Legend Of Zorro (2005)
    Review preview for The Legend Of Zorro

    Once the action starts in earnest and the stunt doubles do their thing, the film is entertaining enough, although when Zorro leaps from a high rock onto the roof of a moving train, you do worry about the horse.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Sword-fighting sequel, sees Zorro take on a racist preacher.
  • Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2005)
    Review preview for Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

    Emotionally electric and so deeply felt, Lian Lunson's infuriatingly artsy documentary style fails to dilute the privilege of the experience.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A tribute concert for Leonard Cohen, with snatches of interviews and scrapbook photos.
  • Marius (2013)
    Review preview for Marius

    A hug of a film which, despite being set in a sun-kissed fairytale style Marseilles, is perfect for those looking for a feel-good outing that's suitable for all the family in the run-up to Christmas.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Love story between a would-be sailor and his childhood friend.
  • Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998)
    Review preview for Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence

    The comedy rests. In fact, it goes to sleep.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    The friendship of three buddies is threatened after they all meet - and fall for - the same girl.
  • Middlemarch (1994)
    Review preview for Middlemarch

    The production is flawless and the acting a joy. It

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Personal and public politics in a small English town in the middle of the 19th century
  • Mystery Train (1989)
    Review preview for Mystery Train

    Its hyperreal colours and iconic tableaux ooze retro chic.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Trio of stories connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
  • Operation Mincemeat (2021)
    Review preview for Operation Mincemeat

    Elegant and gripping but perhaps just a little genteel.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Drama based on the true story of how the British intelligence services fooled the Nazis.
  • Scottish Mussel (2015)
    Review preview for Scottish Mussel

    For a debut this shows impressive grasp of a variety of locations, even that whole 'children and animals' thing.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    A Glaswegian chancer who moonlights as an illegal pearl fisher in the Highland streams falls for a beautiful English conservationist.
  • The Sea (2013)
    Review preview for The Sea

    For all its visual skill and mostly good performances, this is a tiresome, dull film.

    Scott Macdonald · 1 out of 5
    An art historian explores haunting memories in the village he visited as a child.
  • Silent Night (2021)
    Review preview for Silent Night

    Plays out like a high spirited seasonal version of Threads.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Nell, Simon and their son Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
  • Stan & Ollie (2018)
    Review preview for Stan & Ollie

    The performances by Steve Coogan (Stan) and John C Reilly (Ollie) are above and beyond the call of duty. They give the film heart.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    True story of the late years of the comedy double-act.
  • Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie (2018)
    Review preview for Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie

    This isn't the Thomas we loved when there was nothing else to watch

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    A shiny new tank engine goes on a journey through five continents with an Australian racing car and a friendly African train
  • The Tourist (2010)
    Review preview for The Tourist

    There are moments of distress, high tension, but there's never much doubt that there will be a happy ending.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    A post-heist thriller about a man whose lonely wanderings lead him into the path of a dangerous woman with still more dangerous enemies.
  • Tristan & Isolde (2006)
    Review preview for Tristan & Isolde

    Overall, this comes across as a movie which has been compromised to death.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A Dark Ages take on Romeo and Juliet, with naked nursing and energetic swordplay
  • Vinyan (2008)
    Review preview for Vinyan

    This is not the despotic kingdom of Rambo but something worse, increasingly alien, a murky desperate Myanmar.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A couple searching for their missing child find themselves in ever more desperate circumstances.

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