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  • The Axe (2005)
    Review preview for The Axe

    Garcia – reminiscent of a young Jack Lemmon - puts the hang into dog perfectly and the script will bite your arm off.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    It's murder to find a job in France.
  • Eden Is West (2009)
    Review preview for Eden Is West

    This fable for our times manages to be touching, comedic, and poignant.

    Adam Micklethwaite · 4.5 out of 5
    Odyssey of a migrant in search of 'paradise'.
  • In The Fade (2017)
    Review preview for In The Fade

    Akin asks us to shift our perceptions of terrorist attacks in deliberately provocative ways, constantly flipping what we think we know and what we expect to see right up until the film's haunting final image.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Revenge thriller set in the aftermath of a bombing.
  • Köln 75 (2025)
    Review preview for Köln 75

    Emde is a force to be reckoned with. The film could not have been made any other way.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organise the greatest solo jazz concert in music history: Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert.
  • The Lives Of Others (2006)
    Review preview for The Lives Of Others

    A chilling, but ultimately uplifting glimpse into the lives of those trapped within the repressive regime of East Germany.

    Andrew Robertson · 5 out of 5
    East German secret police spy on a playwright and follow the course of his life over a number of years.
  • Original Bliss (2016)
    Review preview for Original Bliss

    Complex, sometimes conflicting emotions are beautifully played by Gedeck.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A woman tortured by her loss of religious faith falls for a charismatic psychologist.
  • Solaris (2002)
    Review preview for Solaris

    Soderbergh's use of real time, old time, dream and memory is orchestrated with such delicacy that the meaning of truth dissolves into pure sensation.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A bereaved man is sent to investigate a mysterious planet and the disaffected crew in orbit around it.
  • Séraphine (2008)
    Review preview for Séraphine

    The overall effect is touching without being sentimental.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    Portrait of French 'outsider' artist Séraphine de Senlis.
  • Taking Sides (2001)
    Review preview for Taking Sides

    While admiring the motives for resurrecting the Furtwangler case, it is difficult to feel sympathy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An American Major interrogates the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1945.
  • The White Ribbon (2009)
    Review preview for The White Ribbon

    The slippery nature of the morality on show coupled with the shifting sands of the narrative makes this an uneasy watch - yet it is also a beautiful and masterfully constructed film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Tensions in a German town on the eve of the First World War.

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