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  • 2012 (2009)
    Review preview for 2012

    Never fear, the requisite monuments duly get what's coming to them.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Solar activity brings about the end of the world as we know it, but a handful of people are determined to survive.
  • Beloved (1999)
    Review preview for Beloved

    Thandie Newton plays it full blown, too self-consciously physical to become anything but caricature.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    A slave is visited by the spirit of her dead daughter.
  • Besieged (1998)
    An exiled student's relationship with a pianist.
  • The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004)
    Review preview for The Chronicles Of Riddick

    There's a new Conan on the block, and he's in space!

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The continuing story of the escaped convict from the sci-fi thriller Pitch Black.
  • The Chronicles Of Riddick: Director's Cut (2004)
    Review preview for The Chronicles Of Riddick: Director's Cut

    The Director's Cut, as expected, beefs up the storyline with more established characters and small scenes to make sense of previously disorientating sub-plots.

    Gator MacReady · 3.5 out of 5
    David Twohy beefs up his sci-fi fantasy and makes it less disorientating.
  • Crash (2004)
    Review preview for Crash

    Haggis weaves his tapestry with infinite skill, aided by exquisite performances.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Slice of Los Angeles paranoia, incorporating fear, anger, racial tension and a miracle.
  • ER - The Complete 11th Season (2005)
    Review preview for ER - The Complete 11th Season

    This show has great drama, writing and it’s as funny as it is moving.

    Darren Amner · 4 out of 5
    More trials and tribulations in the emergency room.
  • Half Of A Yellow Sun (2013)
    Review preview for Half Of A Yellow Sun

    A film worth shouting about.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Civil war shatters the comfortable illusions of Nigeria’s middle class in this 1960s-set love story.
  • Huge (2010)
    Review preview for Huge

    This should have been an insider’s guide to laughter. It isn’t.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    The long, low road to failure on the stand-up comedy circuit.
  • Interview With The Vampire (1994)
    Review preview for Interview With The Vampire

    The relish with which Tom Cruise delivers even the most awful lines is quite engaging.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A vampire tells his life story to a young reporter.
  • Mission: Impossible II (2000)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible II

    It is to Tom Cruise's credit that the sequel is infinitely better than the original.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in the big action sequel to the TV spin off.
  • Norbit (2007)
    Review preview for Norbit

    Its production values are really low, bright colours hardly compensating for shoddy camerawork.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Meeting his childhood sweetheart again after 20 years, mild-mannered accountant Norbit has just one problem - his terrifying wife.
  • The Pursuit Of Happyness (2006)
    Review preview for The Pursuit Of Happyness

    Hugely complimented by Smith’s performance and kept in line by an intelligent script from Steve Conrad, don’t be fooled by the trailer, or the poster. There is nothing soft about this.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A failed salesman, with a five-year-old son, struggles to stay afloat while learning to be a stock broker in San Francisco in the Eighties.
  • Run, Fatboy, Run (2007)
    Review preview for Run, Fatboy, Run

    I wasn't bored. And I had expected to be. In fact I was laughing loudly.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    Comedy about an unfit bloke's marathon.
  • Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
    Review preview for Solo: A Star Wars Story

    Solo is an exercise in retroactive continuity, and its ability to create peril is itself imperilled by what we know to follow after.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
  • The Truth About Charlie (2002)
    Review preview for The Truth About Charlie

    Jonathan Demme manages to mangle the comedy/romance/thriller genre, because this is not his thing.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Charade remake sees a widow implicated in the theft of $6million.
  • W (2008)
    Review preview for W

    In the end I found myself won over by the charm of this film's various creative idiosyncrasies and by the charisma of Brolin’s performance.

    Themroc · 3 out of 5
    The life of US President George W Bush, as seen by Oliver Stone.

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