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  • The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn (2011)
    Review preview for The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn

    A rollicking, humorous rollercoaster ride with stunning set pieces.

    Paul Logan · 4 out of 5
    A young globetrotting journalist partners with an old alcoholic sea Captain to unravel a mystery.
  • Atomic Blonde (2017)
    Review preview for Atomic Blonde

    The pace squeezes your windpipe; the action pulverises your senses; the plot double crosses your preconception

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent.
  • Anthropoid (2016)
    Review preview for Anthropoid

    The final 20 minutes turn the screen into a video game.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 2.5 out of 5
    Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
  • Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
    Review preview for Berberian Sound Studio

    If you're a fan of gialli and horror all'italiana you'll enjoy playing spot the homage. If you're not a lot of the imagery and dialogue will simply go past you.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 4 out of 5
    In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film where his nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche.
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
    Review preview for Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    If you're a fan of Marvel's cinematic universe, you absolutely cannot miss this instalment.

    Max Crawford · 3.5 out of 5
    Suspicion within S.H.I.E.L.D. complictes matters as our hero takes on a new enemy.
  • City Of Ember (2008)
    Review preview for City Of Ember

    Good as Caroline Thompson's script is this is a City Of Ember that could do with a little stoking.

    Tony Sullivan · 3 out of 5
    Can a pair of teens save their world by finding a time capsule?
  • Creation (2009)
    Review preview for Creation

    This is a film which seeks to convey emotional truth rather than historical accuracy.

    Val Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A look at the personal conflicts Charles Darwin experienced when deciding whether or not to publish his theory of evolution.
  • Empire Of Light (2022)
    Review preview for Empire Of Light

    With Roger Deakins handling the cinematography and making the most of the magical light found on parts of England’s south coast, the film never ceases to be visually absorbing.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A peek into the lives of staff at a cinema in an English seaside town in the early 1980s.
  • First Cow (2019)
    Review preview for First Cow

    The simplest of pleasures bring the greatest moments of joy in Reichardt’s latest film.

    Matthew Anderson · 4.5 out of 5
    A cook with a group of fur trappers strikes up a connection with a Chinese emigre in the Old West.
  • Frost/Nixon (2008)
    Review preview for Frost/Nixon

    It’s Frank Langella’s towering interpretation of Nixon that eventually makes every other character real.

    Chris · 5 out of 5
    Timely restaging of the Frost/Nixon televised interview and duel of wits.
  • Happy End (2017)
    Review preview for Happy End

    Haneke is a master of his material, revealing just enough to keep the viewer on tenterhooks but not enough to give an easy explanations.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Story of a bourgeois family, set against the backdrop of the Calais refugee crisis.
  • Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
    Review preview for Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets

    Is it familiarity that makes the heart grow fonder? Or magic?

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Harry enters the second year at Hogwarts... and it's even more perilous than the first.
  • Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (2023)
    Review preview for Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny

    There's a difficult place between homage and pastiche, between nostalgia and the new.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    As the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artefact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
  • Infamous (2006)
    Truman Capote researches the Clutter murders for In Cold Blood.
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
    Review preview for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

    So riddled with logic gaps, dumb character decisions and simple confusion about how we should view the entire conceit, that the actual genetic recreation of dinosaurs from 65 million years ago starts looking believable in comparison.

    Owen Van Spall · 2 out of 5
    When Owen and Claire return to Isla Nublar, they stumble on a conspiracy that threatens the Earth.
  • Kaleidoscope (2016)
    Review preview for Kaleidoscope

    Serious acting, but it becomes something other, something smaller than its stage.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Psychological thriller sees an ex-con trying to adjust to freedom, whose life is challenged by his controlling mother.
  • Ladies In Lavender (2004)
    Review preview for Ladies In Lavender

    If you can tolerate the soft focus and picture postcard shots in return for a pleasant, feelgood movie, by all means go see it.

    Emma Slawinski · 2.5 out of 5
    Two elderly sisters befriend a shipwrecked foreigner.
  • The Mist (2007)
    Review preview for The Mist

    The Mist has to introduce its beasties very early – and herein lurks the problem.

    Tony Sullivan · 2.5 out of 5
    People are trapped in a supermarket after a sinister mist envelopes the town.
  • Mr. Burton (2025)
    Review preview for Mr. Burton

    A film full of finely crafted detail.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Wild schoolboy and son of an alcoholic miner, Rich Jenkins is mentored by teacher Philip Burton to transform into Richard Burton - Wales's greatest star.
  • My Week With Marilyn (2011)
    Review preview for My Week With Marilyn

    You could wash your hair, play scrabble and still not miss the point.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 1.5 out of 5
    Biopic exploration of the tension that developed between Monroe and Laurence Olivier on the set of The Prince And The Showgirl.
  • Out Of Blue (2018)
    Review preview for Out Of Blue

    If you see one portrayal of a screwed up female detective with a drink problem this year, make it this one.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Detective thriller based on Martin Amis' Night Train.
  • The Painted Veil (2006)
    Review preview for The Painted Veil

    Visually and emotionally restrained, the Painted Veil shines with intellectual integrity.

    Chris · 4 out of 5
    A marriage hits the rocks in Shanghai in an adaptation of Somerset Maugham's classic novel.
  • The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
    Review preview for The Pale Blue Eye

    If you have a particular passion for the Gothic, you may find this film appealing despite its flaws.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man whom the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
  • Red Lights (2012)
    Review preview for Red Lights

    Suffers from excess in almost every department.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Psychic debunkers target a clairvoyant who is determined to prove his talents are for real.
  • Serena (2014)
    Review preview for Serena

    The film spirals towards the inevitable like a Greek tragedy written in crayon.

    Donald Munro · 1.5 out of 5
    Melodrama about a logging magnate who discovers his wife can't have children.
  • Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)
    Review preview for Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

    As the film progresses through bouts of selfishness and success, you learn to dislike him more.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The life and wild times of Ian Dury - pop singer, artist, hell raiser.
  • Simon Magus (1999)
    Review preview for Simon Magus

    Another example of a film which looks good, sounds good, has a great cast, and is utterly boring.

    Trinity · 3 out of 5
    A new railroad spells trouble for a small town.
  • Snow White And The Huntsman (2012)
    Review preview for Snow White And The Huntsman

    A gripping, exhilarating rollick through a medieval wasteland.

    Merlin Harries · 4 out of 5
    The huntsman ordered by a jealous queen to kill the young princess Snow White instead trains her as a warrior who can lead a rebel army.
  • Tale Of Tales (2015)
    Review preview for Tale Of Tales

    On balance, the dexterity of Garrone’s vision papers over the cracks and finds the poetic dimensions of the magical material.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Collection of fairy tales. In one, Salma Hayek is a jealous queen and in another Vincent Cassel plays a king who encounters two mysterious sisters. In a third a king raises a gigantic flea.
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
    Review preview for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    The cool colours and muted emotions of this John Le Carré adaptation fit the 1973 Cold War backdrop perfectly and are appropriate for the murky world of moralistic shades of grey.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A spy has to root out a mole at the top of the civil service.
  • Virginia (2010)
    Review preview for Virginia

    Jennifer Connelly has never been more subtle and astute.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A psychiatrically troubled woman trying to move on with her teenage son, finds her way blocked by a sheriff with whom she has had a long-standing affair.
  • 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.
  • Wander To Wonder (2023)
    Review preview for Wander To Wonder

    The model work is magnificent, from the appropriately terrifying design of the TV characters to the careful distinctions in style between that world and the apparent reality of the one in crisis.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature actors who perform in a 1980s kids' TV series. When the creator of the series dies, they are left alone in the studio to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
  • The Wonder (2022)
    Review preview for The Wonder

    Pugh's performance, which dovetails nicely with newcomer Cassidy’s devout determination as Anna, can’t quite overcome the uneven plotting and, at times, flimsy characterisation.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    The Irish Midlands, 1862. A young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months.
  • Your Highness (2011)
    Review preview for Your Highness

    Like spending two hours with a six year old who has just learned a new naughty word.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    A reluctant knight accompanies his brother on a quest to save the latter's fiancee, who has been kidnapped by an evil warlock.

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