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  • Before Midnight (2013)
    Review preview for Before Midnight

    A fairytale for old romantics everywhere, who believe that the weapons of friendship and commitment are as vital in the fight for a relationship, as love.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Jesse and Celine consider their lives together after nine years of living together.
  • Before Sunset (2004)
    Two young people meet again in Paris nine years after a romantic night in Vienna.
  • Bernie (2011)
    Review preview for Bernie

    Like the man after whom it is named, is joyously camp and colourful, and not a little eccentric – even unhinged.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Based on a true story. Jack Black stars in Richard Linklater's playful treatment of the strange story of a Texan funeral director.
  • Blue Moon (2025)
    Review preview for Blue Moon

    As Blue Moon progresses it becomes clear that the one thing Hart really wants is to be wanted.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his groundbreaking hit musical Oklahoma!.
  • Boyhood (2014)
    Review preview for Boyhood

    Intimate and insightful even in its weaker moments, Linklater finds strength and value in normality.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The story of a youngster told over a 12 year period.
  • Dazed And Confused (1993)
    Review preview for Dazed And Confused

    This is an ensemble triumph, somehow made all the more amiable by its general lack of earth-shattering incident.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    It's the last day of school and the kids are ready to party.
  • Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
    Review preview for Everybody Wants Some!!

    A college baseball team behave like sexist pigs with verbal diarrhea

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Male bonding Eighties style for a randy, chatty, sporty group of ball playing housemates
  • Fast Food Nation (2006)
    Review preview for Fast Food Nation

    Despite all the blood on screen, Fast Food Nation is a strangely anaemic movie.

    The Exile · 3.5 out of 5
    Exposing the beef burger industry as bacteria friendly, with blood in the boardroom and illegals in the slaughterhouse.
  • Last Flag Flying (2017)
    Review preview for Last Flag Flying

    Carell is extremely impressive here.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A Vietnam veteran goes to collect the body of his son, who has been killed in war in Iraq.
  • Nouvelle Vague (2025)
    Review preview for Nouvelle Vague

    Guillaume Marbeck as Godard is pitch perfect, trademark dark glasses and tobacco smoke his indispensable props with even the voice uncannily resonant of the man himself.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless.
  • A Scanner Darkly (2006)
    Review preview for A Scanner Darkly

    It's difficult to imagine any fan of Dick's failing to adore this film; but as it retains the genius of his work, so it retains the flaws, and this could be a big problem for some other viewers.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    An undercover agent with a drug habit watches his other self through a scanner.
  • School Of Rock (2003)
    Review preview for School Of Rock

    This is career-breaking stuff for Black.

    Claire Sawers · 4 out of 5
    A drop-out muso poses as a schoolteacher and finds himself setting up a rock band with a group of schoolkids.
  • Tape (2001)
    Review preview for Tape

    The fascination of Tape is in the performances and with the language, how words dance around truth, mocking it.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A filmmaker is forced by an old friend to face his past in this entertaining psychological one-room drama.
  • Waking Life (2001)
    Review preview for Waking Life

    There are moments when it treads dangerously close to pretension and self-importance, but the dream-like feel of the whole thing brings it down to earth.

    David Stanners · 3.5 out of 5
    Rotoscope hero attempts to divine the meaning of life through his dreams.

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