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  • About Time (2013)
    Review preview for About Time

    This is complete hand-waving trash - he's an ignorant, privileged cocky arsehole and good things happen to him. Pass the sick bucket.

    Scott Macdonald · 1 out of 5
    A young man who discovers he can travel in time decides to use it to try and get a girlfriend.
  • Everest (2015)
    Review preview for Everest

    The grandeur and beauty of the place is set against figures of climbers, like black ants, across a white wilderness

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A climbing expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm.
  • The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
    Review preview for The Fantastic Four: First Steps

    This is not just the best of the filmed Fantastic Fours but top drawer MCU, a film that entertained me as a thing itself, as a comics connoisseur, as someone who's done their Marvel miles.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.
  • Kill Command (2016)
    Review preview for Kill Command

    Fans of Seventies science fiction television may feel a twinge of nostalgia at the creation of futurescapes out of disused industrial buildings.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A military training exercise goes wrong when robot targets turn the tables.
  • Me Before You (2016)
    Review preview for Me Before You

    The plot behaves itself and is traditionally predictable

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A woman forms a friendship with a recently paralysed man.
  • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

    If anything the potential dangers of AI are even more in the news now than when the film was shot, making it feel bang up to date.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible - Fallout

    Open your eyes. Admire the death defying artistry.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The MIF team chase down a group of international baddies who plan on taking over the world after nuking capital cities and killing anyone who moves.
  • Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

    It’s certainly all very timely and apposite

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Our lives are the sum of our choices.
  • Napoleon (2023)
    Review preview for Napoleon

    Even at its most epic there's something lacklustre about it all, as if the whole thing were being printed in ink-saving mode.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
  • Pieces Of A Woman (2020)
    Review preview for Pieces Of A Woman

    Part of the problem is that the characters are either opaque or unpleasant – and all lack rounded definition.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Martha and Sean Carson are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably during a home birth at the hands of a flustered midwife.
  • Queen And Country (2014)
    Review preview for Queen And Country

    Anchoring the audience with a perennial fence-sitter allows more room for the inevitable impact of the characters' stories, without the weight of an absolute ideological argument.

    Luke Shaw · 4 out of 5
    An Englishman signs up to fight in the Korean War.
  • The Son (2022)
    Review preview for The Son

    This is a film of boundaries and barriers and attempts to overcome them.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Peter's busy life with new wife Beth and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate comes to him with concerns about their teenage son, Nicholas.
  • The World To Come (2020)
    Review preview for The World To Come

    Overall, the story is a familiar one, with a predictably, one could even say, cliched tragic sweep - a well-trodden pioneer trail that while watchable for the fine performances, still feels overly stuck in a rut.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    In upstate New York in the 1850s, Abigail begins a new year on the rural farm where she lives with her husband Dyer. But a friendship with the wife of a new neighbour leads to trouble.

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