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  • Complicity (1999)
    An investigative journalist discovers people in his articles are being bumped off by a serial killer.
  • Hyde Park On Hudson (2012)
    Review preview for Hyde Park On Hudson

    Are Bill Murray's fabulous presidential brogues what is worth remembering most, or are some of the statements about gender still valid commentary?

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
  • Iris (2001)
    Review preview for Iris

    Eyre does nothing with the camera except place it in line with an actor.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Biopic of the novelist who succumbed to Alzheimer's.
  • On Chesil Beach (2017)
    Review preview for On Chesil Beach

    The attempted act of consummation has a theatrical element to it. She is too passive, he is too angry.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A honeymoon couple struggle to physically and emotionally connect in 1962
  • Pandaemonium (2000)
    Review preview for Pandaemonium

    The facts are twisted out of recognition.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Friendship and rivalry between Romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
  • Stiff Upper Lips (1997)
    Review preview for Stiff Upper Lips

    The humour is less subtle than a fat lady in a small swimsuit.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Satirical sideswipe at Merchant Ivory dramas.
  • Suffragette (2015)
    Review preview for Suffragette

    All message and no massage

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Story of the early feminist movement.

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