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  • Ad Astra (2019)
    Review preview for Ad Astra

    Gray's film is so visually stunning in places, you'll wish that Roy would pipe down a bit and let you enjoy it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An astronaut travels to the outer edge of the solar system in a bid to find his missing father and ensure the survival of the planet.
  • Breakfast On Pluto (2005)
    Review preview for Breakfast On Pluto

    Breakfast On Pluto's tone is a discomforting mixture of comedy and tragedy.

    Richard Mellor · 4 out of 5
    An Irish transvestite, searching for the mother who abandoned him, is caught up in terrorist violence and hilarious goings on in London.
  • Iona (2015)
    Review preview for Iona

    Director Graham is fantastic at allowing the underlying relational strain to simmer for most of the film, in quiet, unspoken Scots Calvinist passive-aggression.

    Robert Munro · 4.5 out of 5
    A woman and her teenage son return to the place she was born to seek refuge from a violent gang.
  • Jimi: All Is By My Side (2013)
    Review preview for Jimi: All Is By My Side

    The film fails to fill those spaces between speculation and that other thing - truth

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The opening chapters of The Jimi Hendrix Story in London
  • Loving (2016)
    Review preview for Loving

    Despite Nichols’s softly-softly approach, the film packs a powerful punch, constantly reminding us of just how recent these historical injustices are.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Story of an interracial couple in 1950s Virginia who face the wrath of the law for getting married.
  • Noble (2014)
    Review preview for Noble

    Noble is a bold little film which smashes through barriers as surely as its heroine does.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The true story of an Irish woman who survived a difficult childhood and went on to help street children in Vietnam.
  • Passing (2021)
    Review preview for Passing

    The role is a gift for Negga, who has always evinced considerable talent but has not previously had the chance to demonstrate her abilities to this extent.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Two African-American women who can "pass" as white choose to live on opposite sides of the colour line in 1929 New York in an exploration of racial and gender identity, performance, obsession and repression.

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