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  • Northfork (2003)
    Review preview for Northfork

    It's a small film - it was shot on a shoestring in 24 days - that tackles big themes, such as love, loss, life and death, and never takes itself too seriously.

    Gary Duncan · 4 out of 5
    The town of Northfork, Montana, is about to be dammed and flooded, but some of the residents are determined to stay in their surreal American fairytale.
  • Stay Cool (2009)
    Review preview for Stay Cool

    While there is no denying that a post-modern examination of John Hughes’ high school is interesting, there is an aloofness here which plays badly against the central will they/won't they romance.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A man returns to his old high school and finds its as though he never left.
  • Twin Falls Idaho (1999)
    Review preview for Twin Falls Idaho

    The overall effect is not unlike watching a delicate and subtle poem slowly turn into something altogether more clumsy and prosaic.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Conjoined twins find their world turned upside down by the love of a call girl.
  • Unconscious (2015)
    Review preview for Unconscious

    This role is something quite new for Bosworth, and she handles it with considerable aplomb

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A man awakens with vague memories of a car accident and grows suspicious of the woman who says she is his wife.

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