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  • About Last Night (1986)
    Review preview for About Last Night

    Pointless American drivel.

    Trash Fletcher · 1.5 out of 5
    Friendships and relationships and Eighties pop music, with Demi, James and Rob.
  • Blood Diamond (2006)
    Review preview for Blood Diamond

    There is a healthy streak of cynicism running through Blood Diamond.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Diamonds are a smuggler’s best friend during Sierra Leone’s vicious civil war.
  • Defiance (2008)
    Review preview for Defiance

    Everything is fairly predictable and heavily signposted.

    Val Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Four brothers escape Nazi occupied Belarussia and hide out in the woods with other rebels, plotting to rescue their fellow Jews.
  • The Last Samurai (2003)
    Review preview for The Last Samurai

    Elegant, disciplined and, ultimately, stirring.

    Stephen Carty · 5 out of 5
    Tom Cruise goes native in Japan in the years when honour was prized more highly than life itself.
  • Love And Other Drugs (2010)
    Review preview for Love And Other Drugs

    Interesting ideas lurk, tantalisingly, underneath the romcom formula and yet every brave move Zwick and his co-writers make is countered by something weak and formulaic, as if in apology.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Romance blossoms between a commitment-phobic drug salesman and a feisty Parkinson's sufferer.
  • The Siege (1998)
    Review preview for The Siege

    Edward Zwick has succeeded in turning a contemporary nightmare into a good day's sleep.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    After a sheikh is kidnapped by the US, terrorists target New York.

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