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  • Calm With Horses (2019)
    Review preview for Calm With Horses

    It's usually Keoghan who gets the acting plaudits, but though he is good as a wannabe bad guy, it's Jarvis who provides the heft, in more ways than one here.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Thriller about a crime enforcer for a clan of drug dealers, while also trying to be a good father to his autistic son.
  • Dating Amber (2020)
    Review preview for Dating Amber

    The comedy dries up from around the middle of the film.

    Jane Fae · 3.5 out of 5
    A pair of gay teenagers fake a relationship to avoid prejudice.
  • England Is Mine (2017)
    Review preview for England Is Mine

    Throughout the film, there's a feeling that the writers are picking their way gingerly through a minefield of possible problems, thereby failing to commit fully to the character of Steven Morrissey.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A portrait of Morrissey's early life.
  • Jimmy's Hall (2014)
    Review preview for Jimmy's Hall

    Loach gives voice with eloquence to the disenfranchised and celebrates the spirit of working people.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    The story of political activist Jimmy Gralton, deported from Ireland during the country's Red Scare in the 1930s.
  • Kneecap (2024)
    Review preview for Kneecap

    It's got the musicality that proper swearing should.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.

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