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Appaloosa
"Director (and star) Ed Harris reintroduces us to the old-style strong and silent western hero. Get ready to swoon" - Wendy Ide

Assembly
"Feng Xiaogang’s epic war film is just about the most impressive one since Saving Private Ryan" - Cosmo Landesman

Australia
"Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited, and over-budget epic manages, against the odds, to avoid turning into one big sunburnt stereotype about Godzone country" - Anne Barrowlcough

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
"Nobody does self-loathing with quite the same dissolute panache as Philip Seymour Hoffman" - Wendy Ide

Bigga than Ben: A Russian’s Guide to Ripping Off London
"Suzie Halewood’s story of two Russian immigrants who come to London hoping to make an easy fortune, but turn to a life of crime is dark, funny, charming, fast, immoral, decadent and delightful" - Cosmo Landesman

Blindsight
"Strikingly photographed documentary that unfolds into a story of human achievement and a study of the East-West culture clash" - Wendy Ide

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
"This is a terrific documentary by James Crump about the unsung collector and his lopsided relationship with his hungry young artist lover" - James Christopher

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
"One of the most moving and remarkable films about childhood I’ve ever seen - a simple tale of unimaginable horror" - James Christopher

Burn After Reading
"The Coen Brothers latest, centred on the discovery of a CD-Rom mistakenly believed to contain CIA secrets, is an irreverent blast of screwball nihilism, twisty machinations and goofball performances" - Kevin Maher

Chocolate
"From the director who brought us the stunt-tastic Ong-Bak comes the story of Zen, an autistic girl who learns martial arts by watching them on television in another symphony of exquisitely choreographed carnage" - Wendy Ide

Cloverfield
"An hour in I started to sweat. And I nearly threw up trying to make sense of the increasingly chaotic and frightening scenes of the gripping climax" - James Christopher

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
"The egocentric documentary-maker Chris Waitt traces his romantic ineptitude and sexual impotence through awkward interviews with irate ex-girlfriends" - Kevin Maher

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