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  • 54 (1998)
    Review preview for 54

    Suffers from a surfeit of superficiality.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Life in New York's most famous night club, seen through the eyes of a naive employee.
  • After The Sunset (2004)
    Light-hearted take on To Catch A Thief, transplanted to the Bahamas.
  • Ask The Dust (2006)
    The love affair between a budding Italian-American writer and a Mexican waitress during The Great Depression.
  • Beatriz At Dinner (2017)
    Review preview for Beatriz At Dinner

    The satire feels a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, with Strutt so monstrous he's an easy target.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A masseuse clashes with a real estate developer over a mansion meal.
  • Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
    Review preview for Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

    Scruffy and scarred and only inadvertently dashing, Crepsley has none of the glamour generally associated with vampires today, though John C. Reilly has no difficulty in making him compelling.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A teenager gets in over his head with vampire politics and finds temporary refuge with a freak show.
  • Dogma (1999)
    Review preview for Dogma

    Why should a story about two angels who have been hanging around Wisconsin for aeons, bored rigid, and wanting to go home, be understandable?

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The last known descendant of Christ has to stop a pair of errant angels from destroying humanity.
  • Eternals (2021)
    Review preview for Eternals

    This is almost an hour longer than anything else Zhao has directed, and while her eye is keen there must surely have been a point where someone looked at a script and thought 'this is too much'.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    The saga of a race of immortal beings.
  • The Faculty (1998)
    Review preview for The Faculty

    The film succeeds so well in a genre, where pastiche is the norm, by accepting absurdity as real.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Six students take on their teachers after they begin to suspect they are aliens.
  • Frida (2002)
    Review preview for Frida

    Taymor has succeeded in recreating an extraordinary time for an exceptional woman. She does so with love and imagination.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The passionate love and life story of Mexican artists, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
  • Here Comes The Boom (2012)
    Review preview for Here Comes The Boom

    Mixed messages and crass stereotyping combine with an underwhelming script to add up to a pretty lightweight experience.

    David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
    A teacher takes up mixed martial arts to try and raise the money to save extra curricular activities at his school.
  • The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
    Review preview for The Hitman's Bodyguard

    A high octane, low credibility caper

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A top professional bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who is required to testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.
  • The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
    Review preview for The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

    Reynolds has proved he's the king of dry delivery in everything from Deadpool to Pokemon Detective Pikachu but even his comedy Kevlar can't protect him from this script.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A bodyguard and two assassins team up to stop the destruction of Europe.
  • House Of Gucci (2021)
    Review preview for House Of Gucci

    An inconstancy of detail might be forgivable if it were not matched by inconstancy elsewhere.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    When an outsider from humble beginnings marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy, leading to a spiral of betrayal and violence.
  • The Hummingbird Project (2018)
    Review preview for The Hummingbird Project

    This is a story of building a thing against impossible odds.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    A pair of cousins embark on scheme to make millions in High Frequency Trading.
  • Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)
    Review preview for Magic Mike's Last Dance

    Pleasant enough.

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    Mike takes to the stage again, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. He heads to London with a wealthy socialite who makes him an offer he can't refuse.
  • Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)
    Review preview for Once Upon A Time In Mexico

    Rodrigues's trilogy is a visual feast of posturing machismo, during which all sense and sensibility is discarded in favour of slow-motion stunts and death from a thousand angles.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Robert Rodrigues continues the saga of El Mariachi with even more bloodshed.
  • The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists (2012)
    Review preview for The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists

    These particular pirates may not be the greatest at, well, pirating, but if you're ready to set sail for adventure, they're the crew to join.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    In his quest to become Pirate of the Year, the Pirate Captain leads his crew into peril and risks losing a treasured shipmate.
  • Puss In Boots (2011)
    Review preview for Puss In Boots

    Just a whisker away from being the cat's whiskers.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The suave cat goes hunting for the goose that lays the golden eggs.
  • Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
    Review preview for Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

    A real return to form, a fully developed story in its own right.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: he has burned through eight of his nine lives. He sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore them.
  • Sausage Party (2016)
    Review preview for Sausage Party

    If you’ve ever wanted to see a bagel and a lavash engaging in homosexual activity used as an argument for why Israel and Palestine should just y’know, smoke some weed and get on with each other, here’s your chance!

    Luke Shaw · 2.5 out of 5
    A sausage tries to find meaning in the world as well as carnal knowledge.
  • Tale Of Tales (2015)
    Review preview for Tale Of Tales

    On balance, the dexterity of Garrone’s vision papers over the cracks and finds the poetic dimensions of the magical material.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Collection of fairy tales. In one, Salma Hayek is a jealous queen and in another Vincent Cassel plays a king who encounters two mysterious sisters. In a third a king raises a gigantic flea.
  • Timecode 2000 (2000)
    Review preview for Timecode 2000

    Within the confines of this technically complex idea, Figgis has created a work of considerable artistic merit.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Experimental film, using split-screen to tell its story about the day in the life of Hollywood folk.
  • Wild Wild West (1999)
    Review preview for Wild Wild West

    Essentially a retro sci-fi spoof, everything is too much.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Two Wild West guns for hire unite to save the president of the Not Really United States.

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