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  • Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
    Review preview for Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

    The film trundles along quite merrily without much plot, easily driven by the tension of the original premise.

    Max Crawford · 3.5 out of 5
    The hapless presenter is caught up in a hostage negotiation situation.
  • The Arbor (2010)
    Review preview for The Arbor

    Memory, reality, fact and fiction blend to give you a vivid 'feel' for the interviewees' recollections while being acutely aware that this remains a remembered reconstruction of the past.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Avant-garde documentary exploring the life and legacy of Rita, Sue And Bob Too! playwright Andrea Dunbar.
  • Elsinore (2026)
    Review preview for Elsinore

    Scott’s beacon of light is swallowed up by Stone and Beresford’s heavy-handedness.

    Paul Risker · 3 out of 5
    Account of Ian Charleson’s life, capturing the moment when he faced his own mortality as he prepared to play Hamlet at the Royal National Theatre.
  • Empire Of Light (2022)
    Review preview for Empire Of Light

    With Roger Deakins handling the cinematography and making the most of the magical light found on parts of England’s south coast, the film never ceases to be visually absorbing.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A peek into the lives of staff at a cinema in an English seaside town in the early 1980s.
  • Eye In The Sky (2015)
    Review preview for Eye In The Sky

    A simple idea, beautifully executed

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The moral and practical outcome of a drone strike in rural Kenya is thrashed out at British HQ as an American pilot in Nevada awaits orders to fire the missiles that may cause unacceptable collateral damage
  • The Falling (2014)
    Review preview for The Falling

    A difficult film, and a film about difficult women.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A fainting sickness hits a girls school in the Sixties.
  • Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
    Review preview for Kick-Ass 2

    Wadlow's sequel flails about like a bar room drunk in a brawl - despite hitting out in all directions, very few of its punches strike their target.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    The high school wannabe superhero returns for another dose of ass kicking.
  • Official Secrets (2019)
    Review preview for Official Secrets

    There’s a refreshing straight-forwardness to Gavin Hood’s Official Secrets.

    Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
    The true story of British Intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion leaked a top-secret memo.
  • Spoof Or Die (2012)
    Review preview for Spoof Or Die

    Stacey Gregg has crafted a script that neatly gives us characters and then exposes their flaws.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A troubled Belfast boy befriends an English kid, with disturbing results.
  • Typist Artist Pirate King (2022)
    Review preview for Typist Artist Pirate King

    Much more of a natural crowd-pleaser than her previous works, this might be Morley’s most successful film to date.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A road movie which draws from the archives of artist Audrey Amiss.

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