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  • Dead Meat (2004)
    Review preview for Dead Meat

    In a way it’s comforting to know that an unreconstructed splatter-fest like this can still get financing, and in another, it’s a shame the film-makers hadn’t injected it with more originality.

    Themroc · 3 out of 5
    Citizens of rural Leitrim turn into flesh-eating zombies after contracting a rogue strain of CJD.
  • Detainment (2018)
    Review preview for Detainment

    Lambe wisely steers away from explicit accounts or depictions of most of the harm inflicted on the toddler.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts and records from the investigation into the murder of James Bulger.
  • Shadow Dancer (2012)
    Review preview for Shadow Dancer

    Marsh takes no prisoners, makes no apologies and kicks you when you're down, all of which makes his films dangerous, inifinitely watchable and almost unbearably surprising.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    A woman caught up in the Troubles is forced to become a informant for MI5.

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