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  • Black Widow (2021)
    Review preview for Black Widow

    It is entertaining.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    Natasha Romanoff confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.
  • Berlin Syndrome (2017)
    Review preview for Berlin Syndrome

    The sex element, while erotically shot, is almost exclusively reserved for the moment in which Clare was enjoying the experience, thus stripping away the usual voyeuristic downside that often accompanies this genre.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship, when an tourist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
  • Lore (2012)
    Review preview for Lore

    Where it would have been easy to soften Lore, Shortland refuses to get sentimental, keeping us hanging on the edge with her as events grow more traumatic.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    Teenager Lore and her four younger siblings are left to fend for themselves after her Nazi SS parents are taken into Allied custody.
  • Somersault (2004)
    Review preview for Somersault

    Almost everything about the film just feels right.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 4 out of 5
    Sexually awakened 15-year-old escapes to an Australian ski resort and lives off her wits.

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