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  • Anemone (2025)
    Review preview for Anemone

    Day-Lewis Jr pays attention to his actors and frames them in ways that make monologues count but there’s a lot of unnecessary brooding about in between times.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Estranged brothers reunite in a remote cabin and are forced to confront their painful past.
  • Black Death (2010)
    Review preview for Black Death

    Feels like a film of two halves.

    James Benefield · 2.5 out of 5
    During the plague years a young monk is sent to investigate reports of the dead being restored to life.
  • Cleanskin (2012)
    Review preview for Cleanskin

    Cleanskin is a smart and visceral thriller.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A secret agent tracks down a would-be suicide bomber and his cell.
  • The Dark (2005)
    Review preview for The Dark

    Unfortunately, it becomes clear that the filmmakers have bitten off more than they can chew.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 2.5 out of 5
    A Welsh ghost story with watery connections.
  • Don't Say A Word (2001)
    Michael Douglas is a New York shrink, whose daughter is kidnapped by Sean Bean.
  • Equilibrium (2002)
    Review preview for Equilibrium

    Equilibrium is that rarest of cinematic entities, a film which succeeds both as intelligent science fiction and as action drama.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Brave New World by any other name, with Christian Bale as a cop who sees the light.
  • Far North (2007)
    Review preview for Far North

    An absorbing, disturbing and exceptionally composed filmic fable.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    A stranger enters the world of two isolated, nomadic women.
  • The Fellowship Of The Ring: Extended Edition (2001)
    Review preview for The Fellowship Of The Ring: Extended Edition

    Tellingly, despite all this extra material, the film does not feel slower and does not become boring. If anything, it’s better balanced, with a more fluid sense of momentum.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A little Hobbit from the Shire sets out with eight companions on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle Earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
  • Flightplan (2005)
    Review preview for Flightplan

    This is Foster's film from start to finish.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Has Jodie lost her mind, or her daughter, on the long haul flight?
  • GoldenEye (1995)
    Review preview for GoldenEye

    Where Goldeneye stands out is when it challenges the typical Bondian blueprint.

    Stephen Carty · 3.5 out of 5
    Pierce Brosnan's first outing as the British agent.
  • Henry VIII (2003)
    The life and bloody times of a fat Tudor king with lots of wives.
  • The Hitcher (2007)
    Review preview for The Hitcher

    Bush and Knighton are underwhelming.

    Paul Griffiths · 2 out of 5
    The thumb's out for a second time around the block.
  • The Island (2005)
    Review preview for The Island

    Fast, furious and Calvin Klein-ad slick.

    The Exile · 3 out of 5
    Futuristic clone colony action escape drama (in clinging white bodysuits).
  • The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)
    Review preview for The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

    Has its moments of genius.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Frodo Baggins and his friends must destroy a powerful, malevolent ring before it falls into the wrong hands.
  • The Martian (2015)
    Review preview for The Martian

    The Martian’s real strength lies in its good-natured attitude.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    An astronaut becomes stranded on a mission to Mars.
  • National Treasure (2004)
    Review preview for National Treasure

    National Treasure is just plain boring. There is no mystery, or sense of discovery.

    Gator MacReady · 2 out of 5
    Treaure hunt for kids and soft-centred adults who like watching Nicolas Cage sleep walking.
  • North Country (2005)
    Review preview for North Country

    What finally raises the film above its somewhat programmatic, fight-the-power formula is its willingness to provide a believable context for the abuse.

    The Exile · 4 out of 5
    One woman fights sexual harassment in the mines of Northern Minnesota.
  • Outlaw (2007)
    Review preview for Outlaw

    Love’s approach is consistently fresh and, until the end, when things fall apart a bit, surprisingly original. The writing here is taut, concise and as lean as a whippet.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Fighting back against the heritage of an illegal war and a corrupt police force in Blair's Britain.
  • Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief (2010)
    Review preview for Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief

    This is an entertaining time passer which should keep the kids happy.

    Martin Gray · 3 out of 5
    Teenage gods and monsters - classical, but not a classic
  • Possessor (2020)
    Review preview for Possessor

    Cronenberg is most certainly David’s son, and while he’d probably prefers to avoid comparisons, his proclivity towards jarring imagery and shocking material instantly calls to mind his father's work.

    Jeremy Mathews · 3.5 out of 5
    Vasya is a corporate agent who uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies, driving them to commit assassinations for the benefit of the company. When something goes wrong on a routine job, she finds herself trapped inside a man whose identity threatens to obliterate her own.
  • Ronin (1998)
    Review preview for Ronin

    Frankenheimer's direction is so flawless and masterful that every frame of every scene flows effortlessly.

    Gator MacReady · 5 out of 5
    Heist caper starring Robert de Niro.
  • Silent Hill (2006)
    Review preview for Silent Hill

    Finally, a horror movie worth bragging about.

    John Gallagher · 5 out of 5
    The singed secrets of a burnt town reveal a terrible haunting.
  • Shopping (1993)
    Review preview for Shopping

    Everything hangs on Billy, but he's empty.

    Gary Duncan · 2.5 out of 5
    Joyriding action with Jude Law and Sadie Frost.
  • Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)
    Review preview for Silent Hill: Revelation

    It's the incoherent plotting and pitiful support acting that really sink Revelation.

    David Graham · 2 out of 5
    When her father disappears, a young woman is drawn into a nightmare world - literally.
  • Troy (2004)
    Review preview for Troy

    Ultimately, there is no depth to the drama and precious little soul.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    The ultimate war over a woman, as the ancient Greeks lay siege to Troy.
  • War Requiem (1989)
    Review preview for War Requiem

    What makes the episodic, almost piecemeal direction so effective is the way in which Jarman alternates between the individual and the universal impact of war.

    Adam Micklethwaite · 4 out of 5
    An enigmatic and visually powerful statement against war.
  • Wolfwalkers (2020)
    Review preview for Wolfwalkers

    The seamless, flowing quality of the animation is what will capture older viewers' attention first - and hold it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Animation set in the Ireland of the Cromwell period, when a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland to wipe out the last pack... only to discover the magical world of the wolfwalkers.

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