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  • Blue Steel (1990)
    Review preview for Blue Steel

    Silver's performance is a magnificent, chilling accomplishment.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A rookie girl cop is stalked by crazed killer in the dank streets of New York.
  • Detroit (2017)
    Review preview for Detroit

    The film is orchestrated at perfect pitch

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    Amid the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
  • A House Of Dynamite (2025)
    Review preview for A House Of Dynamite

    In A House Of Dynamite the uncertainties are propulsive, what we learn unsettling. Each tick of the clock reorients our understanding of the same events.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
  • The Hurt Locker (2008)
    Review preview for The Hurt Locker

    An unrelenting, absolutely riveting and often unflattering portrait of frontline action through the eyes of brave people doing their best to survive.

    Trinity · 4.5 out of 5
    An elite bomb disposal unit struggles to function in the heart of the Iraq war.
  • K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
    Review preview for K-19: The Widowmaker

    The film is well made, without being innovative.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    True story of Russia nuclear sub that experienced possible catastrophic radiation leak in the Sixties.
  • Point Break (1991)
    Review preview for Point Break

    As exciting as it is good-looking.

    Stephen Carty · 3.5 out of 5
    FBI agent goes undercover in a surfer community to try to unmask a group of bank robbers.
  • Strange Days (1995)
    Review preview for Strange Days

    Bigelow delivers a neo noir that hides its hope and redemption under a throbbing veil of paranoia, tension and adrenalin.

    Stephen Carty · 4.5 out of 5
    Forbidden memories on disk, yours for the right price.
  • Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
    Review preview for Zero Dark Thirty

    If you've read the paper during the last ten years, you won't get much new insight here.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 2.5 out of 5
    A recreation of the ten year hunt by US agents for Osama bin Laden.

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