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Review: 5 to 7

She is exotically beautiful and smoking a cigarette. "We are exiles, the smokers," he says, his opening gambit drawing out her smile. She...

"My dear Emma," one character tells Gustave Flaubert's titular (anti)heroine, "you are unrelentingly standing under an apple tree wishing...

The Gunman begins in 2006 in the stylishly sun-baked Democratic Republic of Congo. News reports inform us that this is the scene of the...

Jurassic Park should never have been a franchise. Few directors can match Steven Spielberg's mastery at rooting spectacle in childlike...

"You want it now that it's impossible," Cornelia (Naomi Watts) yells at her husband Josh (Ben Stiller) as they argue in the middle of a...

Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher were awarded at this year's Venice Film Festival for their performances in Hungry Hearts. To say the...

Liv Ullmann's adaptation of August Strindberg's 1888 play, Miss Julie, is replete with painterly compositions, none more striking than...

New York takes a well-deserved break from serving as filmmakers' favoured backdrop for mass destruction. This time, the disaster strikes...

Testament of Youth opens with Alicia Vikander's face as her inscrutable gaze observes those around her. Hers is an almost inconceivable...

Melissa McCarthy is not Julia Roberts. Yet here she is in Spy, having her Pretty Woman moment at the practically geriatric age of 45....