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Haywire
Haywire

Despite it being packed with thrills, spills and fight scenes, Haywire is tenuously held together by a confusing and poorly paced plot.
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19 May 2012
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Angel and Tony
Angel and Tony

A slow-burner of a hit in its native France, Angel and Tony is a small-scale drama about an oddball romance.
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7 April 2012
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Headhunters
Headhunters

With the surge in interest for Scandinavian crime fiction, it was only a matter of time before Norway’s Jo Nesbø found one of his books making the leap to the big screen.
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7 April 2012
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Beginners
Beginners

Beginners is a visually poetic and assured feature that masterfully mixes elements of humour, surrealism and arthouse romance.
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26 July 2011
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Tracker
Tracker

If you bear with it, Tracker becomes quietly riveting. A haunting little gem.
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29 May 2011
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Route Irish
Route Irish

It’s a good tale, but a shame that so many elements conspire to make the end result a little too hard going.
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22 May 2011
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The Messenger
The Messenger

The Messenger dwells upon a unit of the military that usually only makes cameo appearances in other films.
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20 May 2011
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Monsters
Monsters

Lurking within writer/director Gareth Edwards’ modest sci-fi offering is a well-constructed and atmospheric movie – but only if you can approach it with the appropriate expectations.
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9 April 2011
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Oranges and Sunshine
Oranges and Sunshine

Oranges and Sunshine examines a truly shocking episode in British history, and it would be impossible not to be moved by the story that unfolds here.
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3 April 2011
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The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right

Nic and Jules (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) are a middle-aged, long-term lesbian couple in California with two teenage children conceived through artificial insemination.
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19 March 2011
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