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  • Americons (2015)
    Review preview for Americons

    Director Avgerinos has an editing background and it shows in a surfeit of visual ideas which communicate Jason's disordered mental state very effectively but sometimes threaten to overwhelm the viewer.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A former college sportsman is drawn into exploitative real estate scamming in the run-up to the US housing market crash.
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
    Review preview for Drop Dead Gorgeous

    There are too many clashes of style, as if rookie director Michael Patrick Jann has thrown everything into the pot and stirred.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Over-the-top parody of US beauty pageants.
  • Meet Monica Velour (2010)
    Review preview for Meet Monica Velour

    Fails to do anything that hasn’t been done before or better.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3 out of 5
    A young dork seizes the chance of a lifetime to meet the former porn star he idolises.
  • Union City (1980)
    Review preview for Union City

    For me the film promised to truly shock and yet I felt somehow cheated as it unravelled.

    Caro Ness · 3 out of 5
    Milk snatching leads to murder.

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