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  • Fatal Attraction (1987)
    Review preview for Fatal Attraction

    At the core of Adrian Lyne's sumptuously photographed fable is an encounter with real chemistry and a vital balance that makes us question - if only for brief moments - whose side we should be on.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A woman becomes dangerously obsessed when she is ignored by the married man with whom she had a one night stand.
  • Flashdance (1983)
    Review preview for Flashdance

    The dance sequences are electrifying.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    A steelworker spends her nights as an exotic dancer, saving up to go to ballet school.
  • Indecent Proposal (1993)
    Review preview for Indecent Proposal

    Probably the most romantic picture Lyne has attempted.

    Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5
    A loving couple in dire financial straits are offered a million bucks... if the wife to spend the night with another man.
  • Jacob's Ladder (1990)
    Review preview for Jacob's Ladder

    It is as if everyone was waiting for this to test the limits of their talent.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
    Tim Robbins is a Vietnam vet, who starts seeing demons in New York and fearing for his sanity.
  • Lolita (1997)
    Review preview for Lolita

    This version is better than Kubrick's.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Jeremy Irons takes on Nabokov's dirty old man out to corrupt a young girl.
  • Unfaithful (2002)
    Review preview for Unfaithful

    The photography is sumptuous, the settings perfect, the foreplay sensual.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Diane Lane has an affair with sexy French book dealer and husband Richard Gere is not happy.

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