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  • Ender's Game (2013)
    Review preview for Ender's Game

    Ender's Game is a cut above a lot of sci-fi action films for teenagers, confronting them not just with special effects, but with a decent debate concerning the morality and politics of war.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A young boy is trained to lead his fellow soldiers into battle against an alien race.
  • Eye In The Sky (2015)
    Review preview for Eye In The Sky

    A simple idea, beautifully executed

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The moral and practical outcome of a drone strike in rural Kenya is thrashed out at British HQ as an American pilot in Nevada awaits orders to fire the missiles that may cause unacceptable collateral damage
  • Official Secrets (2019)
    Review preview for Official Secrets

    There’s a refreshing straight-forwardness to Gavin Hood’s Official Secrets.

    Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
    The true story of British Intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion leaked a top-secret memo.
  • A Reasonable Man (1999)
    Review preview for A Reasonable Man

    Far from being the pastiche of a voodoo-style horror flick, this is intelligent, wonderfully acted by the African cast and genuinely absorbing.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Courtroom drama about a herdsman accused of killing a baby.
  • Rendition (2007)
    Review preview for Rendition

    By opening up his story Hood may reach a wider audience and this is a subject which certainly cries out for more attention.

    Val Kermode · 3 out of 5
    After a man is disappeared by the government, his wife fights to save him and a CIA analyst questions the morality of his job.
  • Tsotsi (2005)
    Review preview for Tsotsi

    There is not a hint of artificiality, studio mock-ups, or designer poverty here.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
    An outstanding, highly moral tale of a young South African thug's redemption.
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
    Review preview for X-Men Origins: Wolverine

    It’s not a washout, it’s just a mixed bag.

    Stephen Carty · 2.5 out of 5
    An exploration of the origins of X-men mutant Wolverine.

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