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  • The Green Mile (1999)
    Review preview for The Green Mile

    The film is as soft as butter. Sentimentality clogs the air ducts until it is difficult to breathe.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A prison guard's relationship with a death row prisoner. Now out to own on Special Edition two-disc DVD.
  • The Majestic (2001)
    Review preview for The Majestic

    Jim Carrey plays Jimmy Stewart in a homespun piece of whimsy that is far too long.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Jim Carrey is a Hollywood scriptwriter in the Fifties who is mistaken for a dead war hero.
  • The Mist (2007)
    Review preview for The Mist

    The Mist has to introduce its beasties very early – and herein lurks the problem.

    Tony Sullivan · 2.5 out of 5
    People are trapped in a supermarket after a sinister mist envelopes the town.
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
    Review preview for The Shawshank Redemption

    It's easy to forget how violent and depressing the story is and it's only by evoking a powerful sense of horror that Darabont's masterful screenplay earns its climactic feeling of release.

    David Haviland · 5 out of 5
    The anguish of a young banker, incarcerated for life in a notoriously repressive high security jail.

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