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  • Populaire (2012)
    Review preview for Populaire

    Populaire benefits from a savvy script with multi-layered humour and from superb work by its stars.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    An insurance agent grooms a wayward secretary for a speed typing contest, and falls in love in the process.
  • Trader (2022)
    Review preview for Trader

    Mediated by the music, her behaviour sometimes comes to feel like ritual carried out in service of a mystical bond with the markets.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    When a manipulative sociopath discovers her passion for stock market trading, she sets out to conquer the financial world, all from the confines of her basement apartment.
  • Trench 11 (2017)
    Review preview for Trench 11

    When the film focuses on the living over the undead it is at its strongest.

    Emilia Rolewicz · 3 out of 5
    In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches of No Man’s Land to stop a German experiment that could turn the tide of the war. But the Germans have already lost control...

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