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The Anomaly

Noel Clarke’s low budget sci-fi thriller uses an interesting narrative device but suffers from plot contrivances, stock characters…

By Matthew Lee
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Cycling with Molière

Art imitates life in this gentle comedy about two actors rehearsing for a play. The struggling friends, down-on-his-luck…

By Laura Maxwell
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Tammy

Tammy (Melissa McCarthy), the namesake of this rather gratuitously plotted film, is about as irritating and two-dimensional a…

By Francesca Laidlaw
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Begin Again

Every now and then a film comes along that is full of such sincerity that it makes you…

By Piri Eddy
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Goddess

There are no prizes for guessing what will be the main draw to this glossy Mark Lamprell musical as…

By Keir Smith
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Here and Now

The first feature film from award-winning director Lisle Turner, Here and Now stars Lauren Johns (About Time) and…

By Melanie Weaver
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Under the Rainbow

There is one particular second act segment in Agnès Jaoui’s latest effort that aptly summarises Under the Rainbow…

By Gareth Lloyd
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The Golden Dream

Winner of multiple awards, The Golden Dream (original title, La Jaula de Oro) lingers about you like ahangover…

By Miriam Karmali
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Welcome to New York

Gérard Depardieu stars as the controversial lead in Abel Ferrara’s corrupt tale of a powerful economic player, in…

By Keir Smith