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  • 28 Days (2000)
    Review preview for 28 Days

    Crushingly predictable.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Sandra Bullock is an alcoholic, forced into rehab.
  • Appaloosa (2008)
    Review preview for Appaloosa

    Harris the director handles both the personal moments and the action sequences well.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    Two professional ‘peace-keepers’ try to bring law and order to a town run by a murderous rancher. But matters are complicated when a young widow arrives.
  • Captain Fantastic (2016)
    Review preview for Captain Fantastic

    Taken as a whole, however, the director is trying too hard, pushing this family so far into caricature that we lose sight of the story of grief that is underpinning the shenanigans.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A dad who has raised his kids in the forest is forced to take them on a road trip.
  • Carlito's Way (1993)
    Al Pacino is a recovering drug dealer trying to go straight in the mean city.
  • Crimes Of The Future (2022)
    Review preview for Crimes Of The Future

    Cronenberg, a seemingly gentle soul on the surface, remains tortured by the possibilities of technology and how it may tear us apart.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    In a near-future human evolution has accelerated, a situation embraced by a performance artist.
  • A Dangerous Method (2011)
    Review preview for A Dangerous Method

    Keira Knightley... will be tough to beat at next year's Academy Awards for her portrayal of Spielrein

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley star in David Cronenberg's look at the early days of psychoanalysis.
  • The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)
    Review preview for The Dead Don't Hurt

    A small and human story in the sweep of a West both mythic and mundane.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A fiercely independent French Canadian woman embarks on an affair with a Danish immigrant.
  • Eastern Promises (2007)
    Review preview for Eastern Promises

    With its underworld themes and ambiguous protagonist, Eastern Promises plays like a companion to A History of Violence.

    The Exile · 4 out of 5
    An idealistic young midwife inadvertently stumbles across a crime syndicate trafficking prostitutes.
  • Eureka (2023)
    Review preview for Eureka

    Characters come and go between these different worlds, emerging and re-emerging in different forms, as we explore different aspects of colonialism, responses to it, and survival strategies at personal and cultural levels.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Three stories set in wildly different terrain reflect lives haunted by the spectre of colonialist violence.
  • Everybody Has A Plan (2011)
    Review preview for Everybody Has A Plan

    Ana Piterbarg attempts the acrobatic and ill-advised feat of presenting the plot of a B movie noir through the prism of arthouse sombreness.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    Twin brothers - one a beekeeper with a criminal history, one a doctor - are drawn together into dangerous confrontations in the Argentinian swamplands.
  • Falling (2020)
    Review preview for Falling

    Mortensen seems to draw particular focus to the aggression, fear and pejoratives associated with neurological disorders - a side only ever faintly explored in cinema.

    Stephanie Brown · 3 out of 5
    A man invites his conservative father to live with him and his husband in Los Angeles, but his progressing dementia becomes problematic for them both.
  • The Fellowship Of The Ring: Extended Edition (2001)
    Review preview for The Fellowship Of The Ring: Extended Edition

    Tellingly, despite all this extra material, the film does not feel slower and does not become boring. If anything, it’s better balanced, with a more fluid sense of momentum.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A little Hobbit from the Shire sets out with eight companions on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle Earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
  • Green Book (2018)
    Review preview for Green Book

    Mortensen has gained weight. He plays Tony with confidence.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An Italian-American is hired as a driver for a world-class black pianist on a concert tour of the Deep South.
  • Good (2008)
    Review preview for Good

    We feel rather as if we're watching Springtime For Hitler but with real gas chambers.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    An examination of the people who thought of themselves as 'good', yet allowed the Nazis to rise to power.
  • A History Of Violence (2005)
    Review preview for A History Of Violence

    An unflinching indictment of the savagery at the heart of the American dream.

    The Exile · 5 out of 5
    Violence begets violence in a study of retribution and small town defiance.
  • Hidalgo (2004)
    Review preview for Hidalgo

    Hidalgo is Cliche City's nominee for the Been There award.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    A half-breed American cowboy races his mustang across the Arabian desert, circa 1890.
  • The Indian Runner (1991)
    Review preview for The Indian Runner

    Penn had a definite feel for the incidental details and the everyday rhythms of small-town life.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    A State patrolman tries to keep his troubled Vietnam veteran brother on the straight and narrow...
  • Jauja (2014)
    Review preview for Jauja

    Stunningly shot by cinematographer Timo Salminen, who illuminated landscapes as if they were Eckersberg paintings, the film is framed in 4:3 aspect ratio, creating the sense that there's always something just out of sight.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A dad and daughter's odyssey into a desert.
  • The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001)
    Review preview for The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

    Has its moments of genius.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Frodo Baggins and his friends must destroy a powerful, malevolent ring before it falls into the wrong hands.
  • The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2003)
    Review preview for The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

    The Return Of The King is too long and slow. It has about five endings.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Final part of Peter Jackson's Middle Earth trilogy.
  • The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
    Review preview for The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

    This is indeed the war of worlds

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    The second installment of J.R.Tolkien classic fantasy epic.
  • A Perfect Murder (1998)
    Review preview for A Perfect Murder

    Douglas knows the territory well... he has perfected the iced stare to such a degree you worry in case the wind changes.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A man plots to murder his adulterous wife.
  • Psycho (1998)
    Review preview for Psycho

    In remake heaven, where all clones meet, the only question is 'Why?'

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Colour, shot-for-shot remake of Hitchcock's classic.
  • The Return Of The King: Extended Edition (2003)
    Review preview for The Return Of The King: Extended Edition

    Numerous small changes work together to change the character of the battle.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Gandalf and Aragorn lead the world of men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
  • The Road (2009)
    Review preview for The Road

    Pure, stripped-down bleakness, both in the desaturated drabness of its appearance and in the last-days essentialism of its themes.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    An unnamed father and son travel through a post-apocalyptic America in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
  • The Two Towers: Extended Edition (2002)
    Review preview for The Two Towers: Extended Edition

    There is more world building here than in any other part of the trilogy, and the additional material means it’s better balanced with character development.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
  • The Two Faces Of January (2014)
    Review preview for The Two Faces Of January

    Patricia Highsmith on a low flame

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Death in Greece involves a fraudulent investment banker, a tour guide and a young wife. There are no certainties and nowhere to run.
  • Witness (1985)
    Review preview for Witness

    A patient, affecting study of human connection in unusual circumstances

    Antoni Konieczny · 4 out of 5
    When an Amish boy witnesses the murder of an undercover cop, a detective seeks refuge in the community as he tries to protect the child and his mother.

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