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  • All The Real Girls (2003)
    Review preview for All The Real Girls

    Green's script is filled with understanding and honest reflection.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Desperation and first love in the beautiful decay of small town Appalachia.
  • Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans (2009)
    Review preview for Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans

    No film by Herzog has ever been so defiantly mainstream – and yet at the same time this remains one of the director's craziest, most outlandish affairs.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    Re-imagining of Abel Ferrara's film, starring Nic Cage as a cop in post-Katrina New Orleans, whose moral compass slips after he is put in charge of a murder investigation.
  • The Catcher Was A Spy (2018)
    Review preview for The Catcher Was A Spy

    Berg's dilemma requires him to try and solve logical and ethical puzzles, and cannot be alleviated through the easy process of having him find Heisenberg likeable.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The true story of a baseball player recruited as a spy and sent to assassinate the physicist Werner Heisenberg before he can build the Nazis an atomic bomb.
  • Cop Car (2015)
    Review preview for Cop Car

    This is a tense and enjoyable genre picture, and one which gets terrific central performances from all involved.

    Robert Munro · 3.5 out of 5
    Two 10-year-old boys steal an abandoned police car.
  • Eileen (2023)
    Review preview for Eileen

    There are so many shots through things, boundaries, borders, thresholds, that we are primed for other barriers crossed. Those transgressions are not light ones, but in them is an abject honesty.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counsellor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
  • Fancy Dance (2023)
    Review preview for Fancy Dance

    An emotionally engaging portrait of the struggles of life on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma

    Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
    Following her sister's disappearance, a Native American hustler kidnaps her niece from the child's white grandparents and sets out for the state powwow in hopes of keeping what is left of their family intact.
  • Fast & Furious (2009)
    Review preview for Fast & Furious

    If only Fast And Furious had a better sense of humour, it might just wash.

    Emma Slawinski · 2.5 out of 5
    Pimped-out motors, pumped-up muscles and lots of burnt tarmac.
  • Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
    Review preview for Fast & Furious 6

    This souped up little number comes with plenty of cliche under the bonnet.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The team get back together to thwart a villain after they discover Letty is alive.
  • First Man (2018)
    Review preview for First Man

    This is a story about grief and loneliness here masquerading as one about rockets.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Biopic of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon.
  • Joker (2019)
    Review preview for Joker

    Phoenix strips the skin off your eyeballs. What happens next is a gasp away from easy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Origin story of Batman's arch nemesis.
  • The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
    Review preview for The Lincoln Lawyer

    McConaughey works above and beyond his usual remit to remind us that he can also convey a formidable intensity and subtle sensitivity.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A hot-shot lawyer finds he may be out of his depth with his latest client.
  • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

    If anything the potential dangers of AI are even more in the news now than when the film was shot, making it feel bang up to date.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
  • Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

    It’s certainly all very timely and apposite

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Our lives are the sum of our choices.
  • The Negotiator (2018)
    Review preview for The Negotiator

    The plotting, though not without cliche, retains a satisfyingly robust quality - dense enough to keep you intrigued without becoming overwrought.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A US diplomat flees Lebanon in 1972 after a tragic incident at his home. Ten years later, he is called back to war-torn Beirut by CIA operatives to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
  • Non-Stop (2014)
    Review preview for Non-Stop

    It rocks the chocks and never allows tension to slacken for a second

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Blackmail and murder on a long haul transatlantic flight with 150 passengers on board
  • Savages (2012)
    Review preview for Savages

    Leads and support cast alike march their talents off a cliff like the most earnest of lemmings.

    Sophie Monks Kaufman · 1 out of 5
    A pair of pot growers clash with a drug cartel after their girlfriend is kidnapped.
  • Take Shelter (2011)
    Review preview for Take Shelter

    An astounding film.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    After experiencing visions of impending catastrophe, an ordinary man takes extraordinary measures - but can he trust the evidence of his own senses?
  • This Must Be The Place (2011)
    Review preview for This Must Be The Place

    Funny, moving and endlessly surprising.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    An oddball retired rock star takes a roadtrip across America inspired by his dead father.
  • Tigerland (2000)
    Review preview for Tigerland

    Filmmaking that does not compromise for the sake of entertainment.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Training raw recruits at Fort Polk, Louisiana, 1971, to be killing machines for Vietnam.
  • To The Stars (2019)
    Review preview for To The Stars

    Director Martha Stephens uses a palette full of soft browns and pastels designed to evoke nostalgia but shows us plenty of cruelty just under the surface.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
  • Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Review preview for Wristcutters: A Love Story

    Wristcutters isn’t a story of despair but of hope, moving on, and, yes, love.

    Daniel Hooper · 4 out of 5
    A young man kills himself and awakens in a land where everything is "just a little bit worse".
  • The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
    Review preview for The Wolf of Wall Street

    This is how you destroy people's dignity and make them yours, Scorsese seems to say.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Based on the true story of the rise and fall of a financial high roller.

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