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Film reviews from a Rotten Tomatoes critic

“Wuthering Heights” 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff love, lose and love each other again across the windswept decades, risking all. (For my plot recap click here) Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” looks like the cover of a Gothic romance and trembles with the eroticism of a Mills and Boon, and I loved it. As usual with Fennell’s symbolism-rich films… “Wuthering Heights” Read More

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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Young Spike is now part of a vicious crew of killers, while Dr Ian Kelson believes he might be able to cure the Rage virus. Duran Duran said in the 1980s that they wanted to be the band to dance to when the Bomb drops, so it’s fitting that in this alternative apocalypse Dr Ian… 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Read More

The Housemaid 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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A young woman with a past she wants to keep hidden becomes the live-in housemaid for a wealthy family. Fellow Generation Xers sinking back into their multiplex seats to watch The Housemaid might think they’ve been transported back to the heady movie days of the late ’80s and ’90s; Paul Feig’s long hot thriller is… The Housemaid Read More

Rope 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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Two men murder their friend then hold a party, inviting the victim’s own family. Driven by the hubris of a killer, Rope is in that sense a story as old as time, though how the thriller was made was much more experimental. The film is made up of several long takes of up to 10… Rope Read More

The Roses 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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A British couple living in America find themselves at violent loggerheads when one career plummets while the other goes stratospheric. As a long-married couple look to be approaching the end of the marital road, neither will budge enough for them both to move on. Will they blow up their marriage or will it be til… The Roses Read More

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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It’s 1930, and society is changing; with those changes as well as old mores threatening the residents of Downton Abbey. This is meant to be the last Downton Abbey film in the franchise, but is it really the end? I would not be surprised if in five years they’re rebooting the whole thing but with… Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Read More

Jurassic World: Rebirth 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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A team of mercenaries and a shipwrecked family end up marooned on the island home of genetically spliced dinosaurs. The best bit in Jurassic Park: Rebirth is when they play Movin’ On Up by Primal Scream. That’s not even a criticism, it’s just because it’s one of the standout songs of the ’90s. Rebirth is… Jurassic World: Rebirth Read More

28 Years Later 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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28 years after the Rage virus decimated Britain, a young boy ventures onto the mainland to save his sick mother Unsurprisingly in Britain, a zombie apocalypse doesn’t even put a dent in our class system. Rather, the Infected seem to have embraced it: a few alpha leaders, tall, lean and strong, surrounded by upright minions,… 28 Years Later Read More

Fire Of Love 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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The true story of Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists and filmmakers who ultimately died in a volcanic eruption. The glugs and gurgles and slowly popping bubbles of lava belie how fast it can actually flow – there’s something both beautiful and repulsive about it, like an over-egged, undercooked pudding. Like bears, lava flows are natural… Fire Of Love Read More

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

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Bridget, now widowed, gets back in the dating game – and finds a much younger man. Bridget is back, and she has become, dare I say it, slightly more sophisticated. Where once she slurped blue soup now she quaffs blue cocktails; and she has gained a beautiful Hampstead house, possibly accidentally swapped for her hairbrush…. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy Read More