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  • Christine (2016)
    Review preview for Christine

    Craig Shilowich's careful scripting avoids all the usual mental illness cliches and hystrionics to help us sympathise with her even in her most unpleasant moments.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    True story of a driven but troubled TV news reporter.
  • Elvis & Nixon (2016)
    Review preview for Elvis & Nixon

    Dangerously thin on purpose

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Elvis goes to the White House to ask the President to make him a Federal Agent At Large.
  • A House Of Dynamite (2025)
    Review preview for A House Of Dynamite

    In A House Of Dynamite the uncertainties are propulsive, what we learn unsettling. Each tick of the clock reorients our understanding of the same events.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
  • I Play Rocky (2026)
    Review preview for I Play Rocky

    Anchored by Anthony Ippolito’s performance – he not only bears a striking resemblance to Stallone, but his physical and verbal mimicry is uncanny.

    Paul Risker · 3 out of 5
    Sylvester Stallone, then a failing actor, writes the ultimate underdog story and must fight for his chance to play the role of a lifetime - Rocky Balboa.
  • Lady Bird (2017)
    Review preview for Lady Bird

    Her honesty cuts through you like an Arctic storm

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Teenage traumas in Sacramento, Cal, for 17-year-old Lady Bird who has love issues, sex issues, mom issues, when what she wants most is to be out of there, anywhere, especially New York because it's a long way away and packed with artistic promise.
  • Little Women (2019)
    Review preview for Little Women

    The garments are liberating, positioning the wearer as subject, not object of a gaze that evaluates the body.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic.
  • Le Mans '66 (2019)
    Review preview for Le Mans '66

    The film avoids the easy route to Clicheville and stays on the dark side of the road.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Dramatisation of a friendship that shaped motor racing in the Sixties.
  • McVeigh (2024)
    Review preview for McVeigh

    Ott’s interest is not in creating an accurate depiction of exactly what happened in the run-up to the Oklahoma City bombing, but rather in exploring the thought processes behind it.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Over days and nights, McVeigh eats, sleeps, watches the news, meets a girl… all while inside his mind brews an unthinkable plan that will forever change the collective American psyche.
  • The Post (2017)
    Review preview for The Post

    There's a quietness about it, a new maturity for Spielberg.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of how the Washington Post rose to prominence by taking on the Nixon administration.
  • Wiener-Dog (2016)
    Review preview for Wiener-Dog

    Wiener-Dog is a Solondz film through and through – there's still no-one daring to be quite so acerbic and inhumane towards his characters while keeping them grounded in a sense of relatable experience.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    Portmanteau film about the owners of a dachshund.

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