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  • Bringing Out The Dead (1999)
    Review preview for Bringing Out The Dead

    The movie resembles ER on speed. The hospital... is like a war zone.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A night-shift paramedic in Hell's Kitchen finds himself on the brink of breakdown.
  • Dawn Of The Dead (2004)
    Review preview for Dawn Of The Dead

    The direction is different, but appropriate.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3.5 out of 5
    Flesh-eating zombies inhabit the city centre, forcing the few remaining mortals to take cover.
  • Dark Blue (2002)
    Review preview for Dark Blue

    Feels like the real thing.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Corruption amongst the LAPD during the period of street violence after the Rodney King trial.
  • Entrapment (1999)
    Review preview for Entrapment

    Entrapment is a thriller so light it floats away into that place where a 60-year-old bloke is as agile as a chamois and a girl who works in insurance doubles as an international art thief.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    An insurer tries to help capture and art thief.
  • Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
    Review preview for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

    It is the closest thing to an artistic masterpiece in the field of computer generated optical illusion.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A select group of scientist soldiers search for earth spirit in devasted America after alien colonisation.
  • The Garfield Movie (2024)
    Review preview for The Garfield Movie

    It's a stodgy interpretation of something that wasn't that fresh to begin with.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    After Garfield's unexpected reunion with his long-lost father, ragged alley cat Vic, he and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered lives to join Vic on a risky heist.
  • Homicide (1991)
    Review preview for Homicide

    The testosterone, sweat and fag-smoke ambience of a New York precinct house is so well-realised that you might want a shower afterwards.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    A Jewish detective finds his loyalties and sense of identity questioned when he investigates a murder with anti-Semitic overtones.
  • Idlewild (2006)
    Small town Georgia jazz scene in the Thirties, with high-kicking dancers, homemade hooch, gangsters, guns and a girl called Angel.
  • Lilo & Stitch (2002)
    Review preview for Lilo & Stitch

    The script is sharp and witty, but, like the big waves, comes and goes.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Mini-monster from outer space makes friends with misfit girl in Haiwaii.
  • 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 II (2000)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible II

    It is to Tom Cruise's credit that the sequel is infinitely better than the original.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in the big action sequel to the TV spin off.
  • Mission: Impossible III (2006)
    Review preview for Mission: Impossible III

    Abrams combines kinetic action sequences with internal logic-fuelled storytelling to give us an impossible mission head, shoulders and a rabbit's foot above the previous two instalments.

    Stephen Carty · 3.5 out of 5
    The Ethan Hunt franchise gets personal, while chasing a psychopathic arms dealer half way round the globe.
  • 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.
  • Out Of Sight (1998)
    Review preview for Out Of Sight

    Even Jim Carrey couldn't get away with a plot as daft as this and since it's based on an Elmore Leonard novel, you wonder whose to blame.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    An escaped con and a sexy Miami federal marshal have good chemistry in a tight situation.
  • Patty Hearst (1988)
    Review preview for Patty Hearst

    Natasha Richardson gives an intelligent performance that captures the intensity of her fear, without losing touch with the humanity of a situation that involves other women with different agendas.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    True story of how priviliged Patty Hearst was kidnapped by revolutionaries and later converted to their cause.
  • Piranha 3DD (2012)
    Review preview for Piranha 3DD

    Piranha 3DD is a floating turd of a film that deserves to sink without trace.

    David Graham · 1 out of 5
    A school of bloodthirsty piranha attack a water park.
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
    Review preview for Pulp Fiction

    Excitement shivers through each scene with quirky, individual peculiarity.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Killers and junkies interact and outeract in a merry-go-mayhem ensemble of violent eccentricity.
  • Surrogates (2009)
    Review preview for Surrogates

    Surrogates develops into a glossy thriller that looks and acts just like the real thing.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    In a world where everyone operates through artificial bodies, two cops investigate a murder with real human victims.
  • The Wild Robot (2024)
    Review preview for The Wild Robot

    The film mines a lot of clichés but manages to do something a little different with them, blending traditional elements of children’s fiction with a distinctly 21st Century sensibility.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A robot designed to assist humans finds herself stranded on an island populated only by animals.

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