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  • Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)
    Review preview for Once Upon A Time In Mexico

    Rodrigues's trilogy is a visual feast of posturing machismo, during which all sense and sensibility is discarded in favour of slow-motion stunts and death from a thousand angles.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Robert Rodrigues continues the saga of El Mariachi with even more bloodshed.
  • Overnight (2003)
    Review preview for Overnight

    A bit biased.

    Gator MacReady · 3.5 out of 5
    How to be the next big thing in Hollwood and screw up.
  • Paris Je T'Aime (2006)
    Review preview for Paris Je T'Aime

    It is like nibbling for nearly two hours in the kitchens of the best chefs. At the end we are exhausted and hungry.

    Chris · 3 out of 5
    Twenty different glimpses of Paris.
  • Pasolini (2014)
    Review preview for Pasolini

    Pasolini's unfinished life remains painfully unresolved, as it should be.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A look at the final day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
  • Poor Things (2023)
    Review preview for Poor Things

    Lanthimos skillfully transforms this lustful carnival into a coming-of-age drama, emphasising the protagonist's mastery of sexuality as a connotation of her mental evolution.

    Levan Tskhovrebadze · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of a young woman who has been brought back to life.
  • Shadow Of The Vampire (2000)
    Review preview for Shadow Of The Vampire

    A true original.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    Gothic comedy that revises the story of the making of silent film classic Nosferatu.
  • Siberia (2020)
    Review preview for Siberia

    A film that is entirely built on moments and glimpses.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A broken man flees the world and finds himself in a cave. His escape becomes a radical confrontation with his dreams, his memories and demonic visions.
  • Spider-Man (2002)
    Review preview for Spider-Man

    The 12-certificate seems severe. This is a kids movie if ever there was one.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Bitten by a spider in a museum, a shy youth begins to develop strange abilities.
  • Spider-Man 2 (2004)
    Review preview for Spider-Man 2

    The effects are eye-popping and the look of the film is exquisite.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Spidey reluctantly returns to save New York from a mad scientist.
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
    Review preview for Spider-Man: No Way Home

    The film maintains an excellent blend of the domestic and the dramatic

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Peter's attempts to make the world forget him help villains fall into his world from elsewhere in the Multiverse.
  • Tomorrow You're Gone (2012)
    Review preview for Tomorrow You're Gone

    Monaghan is superb, creating a character whose unlikeliness doesn't detract from her believability.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A man emerges from prison with an obligation to commit murder but nothing goes quite to plan, from his unexpected emotional journey to his increasingly strange visions.
  • Tommaso (2019)
    Review preview for Tommaso

    Like many of Ferrara’s films, Tommaso starts out with seemingly insignificant details, but stacks them until they mount ominously.

    Sunil Chauhan · 3 out of 5
    An American film director in Rome tries to understand where life has taken him.
  • The Walker (2007)
    Review preview for The Walker

    A real cinematic gem disguised as a rhinestone.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Investigating a murder mystery, a sophisticated male escort discovers some unexpected things about himself.
  • Wild At Heart (1990)
    Review preview for Wild At Heart

    The meandering pace can get tedious at times, but cinematically it's a masterpiece.

    Nicky Falkof · 4 out of 5
    Sailor and Lula go on the run, after Lula's mum bids to kill her daughter's beau.

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