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  • Defiance (2008)
    Review preview for Defiance

    Everything is fairly predictable and heavily signposted.

    Val Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Four brothers escape Nazi occupied Belarussia and hide out in the woods with other rebels, plotting to rescue their fellow Jews.
  • Echoes Of The Past (2021)
    Review preview for Echoes Of The Past

    The framing of the atrocities of war through the eyes of an innocent is a tried and tested device – perhaps a little too much so – and there’s nothing particularly new about it here

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A fictionalised take on the massacre of Kalavryta in which a survivor tells his tale decades after the fact.
  • Gladiator (2000)
    Review preview for Gladiator

    Ridley Scott's 2nd century extravaganza dies during those pauses between blood, sweat and fear.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    The revenge of a disgraced Roman general turned gladiator.
  • Limitless (2011)
    Review preview for Limitless

    It's almost as if the project ran out of money or whole scenes were cut to preserve the runtime, as after setting up some juicy ideas, the film cheats us by ushering in conclusions which leave the words 'but how did that happen?' hanging accusingly in the

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A struggling writer finds himself on the up after getting hold of a drug that lets him access 100 per cent of his brain power.

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