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  • Assessment (2005)
    Running along a beach through the centuries to the music of The Beta Band.
  • Pitch Black Heist (2011)
    Review preview for Pitch Black Heist

    Shot in lush, vivid black and white, the film carries a sense of age and expectation.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two men team up to rob an office safe but they must work around a light-triggered alarm system.
  • Slow West (2015)
    Review preview for Slow West

    Maclean shows a land where loss of innocence is ever-present.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A Scotsman heads to the american West in search of his lost love.
  • Squares (2003)
    Review preview for Squares

    You would have to be a serious fan to find this entertaining.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Pop video for The Beta Band has them in space suits on the moon.
  • Tornado (2025)
    Review preview for Tornado

    The script is lean, the sword edges keen and the characters mean.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A Japanese puppeteer's daughter gets caught up with criminals when their show crosses paths with a crime gang, led by Sugarman and his son Little Sugar.

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