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  • The Angels' Share (2012)
    Review preview for The Angels' Share

    One of The Angels' Share's strongest points is the way the script and the actors capture natural language.

    Donald Munro · 4 out of 5
    A group of young offenders doing community service find inspiration in whisky.
  • Fast Romance (2010)
    Review preview for Fast Romance

    A deeply derivative string of spew-inducing Inciting Incidents and plot contrivances aiming for the weakest in rom and com.

    Scott Macdonald · 1 out of 5
    Can just three minutes with a stranger change the course of your life, forever?
  • Sweet Sixteen (2002)
    Review preview for Sweet Sixteen

    Laverty's script is so bare of sentiment, it hurts.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Scottish teenager becomes drug dealer to give his mum, who is in jail, a proper home.
  • Tickets (2005)
    Review preview for Tickets

    The trans-European train on which the film's sections unfold is the perfect setting for such a synergistic venture.

    Anton Bitel · 3 out of 5
    Three international film directors take a train to Rome and tell stories of love, loss and the beautiful game.
  • The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006)
    Review preview for The Wind That Shakes The Barley

    You could talk your way round the houses and still come up with very good reasons for believing that when Loach goes political, he makes Karl Marx look benign.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    The budding years of the IRA as country boys oppose the brutal suppression of the Black & Tans

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