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  • Alice Through The Looking Glass (2016)
    Review preview for Alice Through The Looking Glass

    Anything can happen and nothing makes sense and reality is a word as plain as it is pointless

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Alice returns to Wonderland to save the Mad Hatter.
  • Ali G Indahouse (2001)
    Ali G becomes an MP and spends most of his time leching after babes and upsetting the PM.
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (2006)
    Review preview for Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan

    The unconscious is never suppressed and the id runs riot

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    A fake documentary about a Kazakhstani TV reporter on a cultural mission to America.
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
    Review preview for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

    It becomes more interesting when it gets out of the comfort zone provided by familiar cynicism and finds warmth in unexpected places.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Fiction and documentary blur as a Kazakh journalist sets out to win favour with the US government on behalf of his nation.
  • Brüno (2009)
    Review preview for Brüno

    A lot of the humour here is genuinely edgy and will offend some viewers, but it has a purpose.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An Austrian gay fashion icon endeavours to become world famous.
  • The Dictator (2012)
    Review preview for The Dictator

    Like the best comedy, it's both wilfully stupid and deceptively clever, pushing buttons you may not expect.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A Middle Eastern dictator is summoned before the UN Security Council in relation to concerns about his nuclear weapons programme.
  • Hugo (2011)
    Review preview for Hugo

    referential re-enactments of everything from Harold Lloyd to Fritz Lang will massage the ego of the informed but like most modern remakes, these scenes lack the heart and soul of their inspirations, and aren't imaginative or exciting enough out of context

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
    Review preview for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

    Those anarchic avians, the penguins, steal every scene they are in making them, to my way of thinking, the best additions to animated film since that coyote fancied roadrunner for dinner.

    Tony Sullivan · 4 out of 5
    Trouble brews when the New York Zoo animals try to head back to the Big Apple.
  • Madagascar (2005)
    Review preview for Madagascar

    Formulaically funny and kids will adore every derivative minute.

    Kotleta · 4 out of 5
    Four animated animals from Central Park Zoo are shipwrecked on the wild shores of Madagascar.
  • Les Misérables (2012)
    Review preview for Les Misérables

    There is a sense of danger in performances that are called upon to hit high musical and emotional notes simultaneously.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    All-singing, no-dancing rendition of the Schönberg and Boublil musical.
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007)
    Review preview for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

    Johnny Depp gives one of the greatest performances of his career.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Musical mayhem, murder most foul, and meat pies with a difference in a gothic tale of doomed love and deadly obsession.
  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006)
    Review preview for Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby

    The humour is so basic, it doesn't need a spell check.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    A NASCAR comedy of fast cars and stupid drivers.
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
    Review preview for The Trial of the Chicago 7

    This is a clean-cut, old school script that has no time for messy interludes or spare chat, but this is a feature film not a documentary and the polish adds pace.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Retelling of the conspiracy trial that occurred following protests at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention

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