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  • Bronson (2008)
    Review preview for Bronson

    Tom Hardy makes other movie hardmen look like they belong on the Muppet Show.

    Tony Sullivan · 4.5 out of 5
    Examination of the life of Britain's self-titled "most dangerous criminal". Out on re-release.
  • Bleeder (1999)
    A man becomes violent after his girlfriend gets pregnant.
  • Drive (2011)
    Review preview for Drive

    Drive is cool. Really cool. In fact this will probably be the coolest film you will see this year.

    Owen Van Spall · 4.5 out of 5
    A stuntman who moonlights as a wheelman finds he is the target of a hit.
  • Fear X (2002)
    Review preview for Fear X

    Fraught and anxious, yet enigmatic, Turturro's performance is beautifully understated.

    David Stanners · 3.5 out of 5
    A dark noir-ish mystery about a man looking for his wife's killer.
  • The Neon Demon (2016)
    Review preview for The Neon Demon

    This is a film about greatness and those who have it thrust upon them.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A young model faces jealous rivals in LA.
  • Only God Forgives (2013)
    Review preview for Only God Forgives

    Perhaps Winding Refn’s most deliberately difficult work to date.

    Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
    A drug smuggler in Bangkok is charged by his mother with finding and killing whoever killed his brother.
  • Pusher (1996)
    Review preview for Pusher

    he film does everything right in its portrayal of a character on the run... the characters are searingly real.

    Tim Bryant · 4 out of 5
    Seminal gangster film about an unrepentant drug dealer. Out to own as part of the European Mavericks Heart Of Darkness box set.
  • Valhalla Rising (2009)
    Review preview for Valhalla Rising

    The difficulty with sustaining intensity for any period of time is that it so easily becomes ridiculous, but there is absolutely nothing in this brutal, at times violent film that will have you laughing.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Early medieval epic about a mute warrior who escapes his captors with the slave who tends him.

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