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  • Alien Quadrilogy (1979)
    Review preview for Alien Quadrilogy

    The sheer unexplained terror of the Aliens is more than enough to make them watchable.

    Andrea Mullaney · 5 out of 5
    Nine-disc DVD offers two versions of each of the four Alien sc-fi fright flicks, with bonus extras.
  • The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008)
    Review preview for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

    The Pittster does do his best with a restrained and mature performance, but he's about as shackled by Benjamin's condition as the character is.

    Stephen Carty · 2.5 out of 5
    Fantasy about a man who ages backwards, from old to young.
  • Fight Club (1999)
    Review preview for Fight Club

    At a time when safety is the key to Hollywood's washroom, David Fincher places a bomb under the plumbing. Expect to be shocked, freaked, thrilled and gutted.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    An insomniac hooks up with a man on a plane who will change his life forever.
  • The Game (1997)
    Review preview for The Game

    Michael Douglas is electrifying.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    An arrogant millionaire discovers that all that glitters is fake.
  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
    Review preview for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

    In the end, this isn't the obnoxious film it might have been but it isn't a very interesting one either.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A journalist tries to solve a murder from the past with the help of a brilliant but damaged young woman.
  • Gone Girl (2014)
    Review preview for Gone Girl

    Rosamund Pike is a revelation as the woman who can be everything you want her to be - and, especially, what you definitely don't want her to be.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A man finds himself in the media spotlight after his wife disappears.
  • The Killer (2023)
    Review preview for The Killer

    There's a disassociation between the original's ennui and what might be the consequences of sleep deprivation. There's also a rebalancing of its violence, and it might be that which most discomfits.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    After a fateful near miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.
  • Mank (2020)
    Review preview for Mank

    This is a film that lets words sizzle more than anything.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane for Orson Welles.
  • Panic Room (2002)
    Review preview for Panic Room

    The camera soars like a bird, zooming and floating through walls, pressing the audience into a voyeuristic role.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A woman and her daughter are stalked by a trio of thieves on their first night in a luxury apartment, with contains a monitor-equipped safe room.
  • Se7en (1995)
    Review preview for Se7en

    Se7en is filthier than a dead stray dog at the bottom of a New Jersey toxic waste dump.

    Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
    Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are cops who investigate a series of killings connected by the seven deadly sins.
  • The Social Network (2010)
    Review preview for The Social Network

    Fincher's cautionary fable is way more riveting than anyone could reasonably have expected.

    David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
    The story behind the founding of Facebook.
  • Zodiac (2007)
    Review preview for Zodiac

    If you're a fan of tense crime thrillers full of scares and mystery, then it may not be for you - but it's certainly about you.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A cop, a reporter and a cartoonist become obsessed with a serial killer in 1970s San Francisco.

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