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  • 600 Miles (2015)
    Review preview for 600 Miles

    A brilliant piece of character driven desert noir.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A federal agent is kidnapped while he is trying to track a weapons cartel.
  • Arbitrage (2012)
    Review preview for Arbitrage

    Richard Gere is getting better with age. The lived-in look suits him and he holds this film tight.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A hedge-fund magnate is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire before the depths of his fraud are revealed. An unexpected, bloody error forces him to turn to the most unlikely corner for help.
  • Bergman Island (2021)
    Review preview for Bergman Island

    The film unfolds at an easy pace, Hansen-Løve making everything matter of fact and yet beguiling, thereby softening viewers up to accept the fantastic or surreal aspects of the narrative as normal.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An American filmmaking couple retreat to the island for the summer to write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the island's wild landscape.
  • Broken (2012)
    Review preview for Broken

    Underneath the sound and fury is a subtle, poignant and often very funny take on growing up.

    Jeff Robson · 3 out of 5
    A young girl’s life changes when she witnesses a brutal attack.
  • The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover (1989)
    Review preview for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover

    A work of brilliance, painful as a punctured lung, fierce, uncompromised, operatic, sexual, startlingly beautiful and yet poisoned with evil.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Darkly comic horror about sex, murder and food.
  • Dark Water (2005)
    Review preview for Dark Water

    For those who have seen the originals, stay away.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    So-so adaptation of Hideo Nakata's Japanese horror movie.
  • Don't Come Knocking (2005)
    Nostalgia for the old times as age resurrects emotions and lost lovers for a legendary film star.
  • Funny Games (2007)
    Review preview for Funny Games

    Haneke once again delivers intellectual, challenging and bravura filmmaking.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    English language remake of the ice-cold horror about a family held hostage by a pair of preppy youngsters. Plus read our with producer Chris Coen.
  • A Fuller Life (2013)
    Review preview for A Fuller Life

    Any greater insight into the life of Fuller is most welcome.

    Robert Munro · 3.5 out of 5
    Tribute to maverick American filmmaker Samuel Fuller.
  • Grace Of Monaco (2014)
    Review preview for Grace Of Monaco

    Kidman is 47. She's an actress playing an actress, not a Catholic girl from Philly with all the enthusiasm of youth

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco.
  • The Hateful Eight (2015)
    Review preview for The Hateful Eight

    Tarantino flexes his trash thrashed imagination and vomits forth the guts of a serial killer's darkest desires

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
  • The Incredible Hulk (2008)
    Review preview for The Incredible Hulk

    Predictable popcorn pap - this feels exactly like the holiday filler that it is.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    On the run, Bruce Banner must come to terms with his alter ego, the Hulk, in order to defeat a hostile version.
  • Invincible (2001)
    Review preview for Invincible

    After a string of vulgar performances in awful films, Tim Roth here makes a stunning return to form as the cabaret owner and hypnotist, courageously portraying an ambitious and frightened man whose life is dominated by the secrets he keeps.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A Jewish blacksmith's son becomes a strongman in Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power.
  • Liar (1997)
    Review preview for Liar

    The Pates use flashback, like postcards from the pit, exploring aspects of character that contradict and expose.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    When a prostitute is found dead and diced, a textile heir finds himself under suspicion of murder.
  • Luce (2019)
    Review preview for Luce

    There's a rare intelligence to this film, which explores issues around race, wealth, class, gender and what it means to be a real American in a nuanced, multifaceted way.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealised image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
  • Made In Britain (1983)
    Review preview for Made In Britain

    Roth, in his TV debut, is dangerously fluent.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The life of a violent skinhead.
  • The Musketeer (2001)
    Dumas' musketeer gets a chop-socky makeover.
  • Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood (2019)
    Review preview for Once Upon A Time ... In Hollywood

    Tarantino's on good form but there are moments in the middle of the 165-minute marathon where it flags before mustering for its finale.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth make their way around an industry they hardly recognise any more.
  • Planet Of The Apes (2001)
    Review preview for Planet Of The Apes

    It hardly helps having Mark Wahlberg in the lead. As charismatic as seaweed, he creates a new milestone in minimalist acting. It's called not acting.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Tim Burton's monkeys are revolting.
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
    Review preview for Pulp Fiction

    Excitement shivers through each scene with quirky, individual peculiarity.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Killers and junkies interact and outeract in a merry-go-mayhem ensemble of violent eccentricity.
  • Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
    Review preview for Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

    Every theatrical device in the book is here and everything that makes a film interesting is not.

    David Stanners · 2 out of 5
    Tom Stoppard directs his first play about minor characters from Hamlet.
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992)
    Review preview for Reservoir Dogs

    Tarantino's talent for dialogue is what catapults Dogs into instant-classic status.

    Gary Duncan · 4 out of 5
    Quentin Tarantino’s ultra-cool reworking of the tired old heist genre.
  • Rob Roy (1995)
    Review preview for Rob Roy

    Energy, enjoyment and a refusal to be bothered by purist sensibilities make this a rollocking good adventure.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Adventure yarn about people's hero who robs from the rich to help the poor.
  • Selma (2014)
    Review preview for Selma

    There are long stretches when nothing much happens

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign for equal voting rights.
  • Silver City (2004)
    Review preview for Silver City

    A monumental bore.

    The Exile · 2.5 out of 5
    Part murder mystery, part political rant, John Sayles goes looking for trouble in Colorado.
  • Seven Snipers (2026)
    Review preview for Seven Snipers

    We don’t get much explicit backstory, so it’s the chemistry between the actors that’s important to making this slight story convince, and for the most part, it’s there.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A retired sniper in hiding on an Australian ranch must reunite her elite kill squad when a vengeful warlord threatens her daughter.
  • To Kill A King (2003)
    Review preview for To Kill A King

    To Kill a King features a career-best performance by Rupert Everett as King Charles I.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Power struggle in 1645, as Oliver Cromwell instigates a reign of terror in England.
  • There Are No Saints (2022)
    Review preview for There Are No Saints

    It does pretty much as it says on the wrapper: and if some of us do not have the stomach to stay the course, that is on us, not the filmmakers.

    Jane Fae · 3 out of 5
    When a man who was wrongfully imprisoned discovers his wife has been murdered and his son kidnapped, he hatches a plan for vengeance.
  • Tornado (2025)
    Review preview for Tornado

    The script is lean, the sword edges keen and the characters mean.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A Japanese puppeteer's daughter gets caught up with criminals when their show crosses paths with a crime gang, led by Sugarman and his son Little Sugar.
  • Vincent & Theo (1990)
    Review preview for Vincent & Theo

    The acting is so committed that it sparks the imagination and makes two-and-a-half hours feel inadequate.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    The tempestuous relationship between Vincent Van Gogh and his art dealer brother.
  • Virgin Territory (2007)
    Review preview for Virgin Territory

    Littered with sexual innuendo that is about as funny as drowning kittens.

    Darren Amner · 1 out of 5
    A young buck in mediaeval Italy tries to rescue his love from the clutches of a dastardly Tim Roth... at the same time as avoiding the plague.
  • Youth Without Youth (2007)
    Review preview for Youth Without Youth

    What emerges, despite the magic realist trappings, is a classic Coppola tale; Like Kurtz and Michael Corleone, Dominic is a man alone, haunted by his memories and driven to tragedy by the essence of his character.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    A university professor is struck by lightning and finds himself growing younger.

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