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  • Closing The Ring (2007)
    Review preview for Closing The Ring

    Closing The Ring delivers romance on an epic scale and seems destined to be the pride of some people's DVD collections, but beneath the gloss and the carefully crafted performances, it's lacking something.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A widow's carefully constructed life unravels following the discovery of the ring worn by the man she loved 50 years before.
  • Gandhi (1982)
    Review preview for Gandhi

    Ben Kingsley excels as the unassuming hero who leads his countrymen to freedom from British rule using peaceful means, however you can't help but be disappointed by other aspects of the film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Richard Attenborough’s epic tracing the rise of Gandhi from lawyer in South Africa to an Indian leader who won independence for his people.
  • Grey Owl (1999)
    Review preview for Grey Owl

    All the ingredients are here and yet an essential spark is missing.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Biopic of Englishman who became famous as a half-caste Indian fur trapper in Northern Canada.
  • Shadowlands (1993)
    Review preview for Shadowlands

    A quiet, moving film.

    Sarah Artt · 4 out of 5
    A late flowering of romance for the dry academic who created Narnia

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