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  • Adam's Apples (2005)
    A priest who believes in the essential goodness of everything struggles to deal with a neo-Nazi in his church.
  • Allegro (2005)
    Review preview for Allegro

    Truly defies classification.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Genre-bending love story sees a concert pianist confront his past.
  • The Brøken (2008)
    Review preview for The Brøken

    While it is big on atmosphere and features crafty camerawork it is running on empty when it comes to plot.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A woman's life begins to spiral out of control after she sees her doppelganger. Read our with Sean Ellis.
  • Dead Language (2025)
    Review preview for Dead Language

    Both words of the title loom large together and apart and are sprinkled into the smallest verbal and non-verbal exchanges.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A chance encounter leads Aya to pick up a stranger at the airport. When he disappears, he leaves behind a gnawing hunger - one which perhaps only a complete stranger could fulfill.
  • Festen (1998)
    Review preview for Festen

    A delicious exercise in controlled, cathartic anarchy.

    Emma Slawinski · 4.5 out of 5
    Skeletons fall out of the closet at a family birthday party.
  • Flickering Lights (2000)
    Review preview for Flickering Lights

    Jokes are low-brow but delight audiences easily enough to give the film international appeal.

    Chris · 2.5 out of 5
    A group of gangsters on the run hide out in an old country house and fall in love with it, dreaming of a different life; but their past is out to get them.
  • Hitman (2007)
    Review preview for Hitman

    None of this is very interesting, but the action does make up for it in part.

    Ben Sillis · 2 out of 5
    Assassin Number 47 hits the big screen.
  • The International (2009)
    Review preview for The International

    A timely and well-executed thriller

    Adam Micklethwaite · 3.5 out of 5
    An Interpol agent and a lawyer try to uncover an international banking scandal.
  • In A Better World (2010)
    Review preview for In A Better World

    The microcosm of the children's world is exceptionally well drawn.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Two children form a bond that could spell trouble.
  • Liberation (2022)
    Review preview for Liberation

    The film is replete with tension, and director Anders Walter incorporates some nerve-racking sequences.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A family faces difficult choices when a small Danish town is left in charge of hundreds of weak and hungry German refugees at the end of World War Two.
  • Max (2002)
    Review preview for Max

    Has a dark, post-Apocalyptic feel to it, with a vibrant artistic life.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A friendship between an artist and Hitler as a young man.
  • The Rocket Post (2006)
    Review preview for The Rocket Post

    This gentle tale of love in the face of the threat of war could do with a bit of rocket propulsion itself.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Rocket scientist finds love on remote Scots isle.
  • Season Of The Witch (2011)
    Review preview for Season Of The Witch

    For a short while I thought this might be an entertainingly bad film. It isn't.

    Val Kermode · 1 out of 5
    Two men escort a prisoner who may or may not be a witch on a perilous journey through a land ravaged by the black death.
  • A Second Chance (2014)
    Review preview for A Second Chance

    Everything feels contrived, overblown and - perhaps the worst sin you can lay at the door of a psychological thriller - utterly predictable.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    How far are decent people willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust?
  • The Thing (2011)
    Review preview for The Thing

    Van Heijningen Jr tragically fails to exploit our fear of the unknown and the potential tension of the paranoia-stoking premise.

    David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
    At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.

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