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Hunt, The - The theme of human beings being hunted by other humans has been a virtual guarantee of success and controversy at the box-offices of the world since the early days of...

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Run - We should say right away that anyone expecting a fast-moving pursuit movie from the title (and the runtime) is going to be disappointed. Instead, we have a barely-there...

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Military Wives - A blatant rip-off of the first series of TV's The Choir, this is a big weepie about wives of personnel sent to Afghanistan who, after disastrous dices with...

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Escape from Pretoria - In the late 1970s, South Africa's Pretoria Prison was not only feared, but well nigh impregnable. That's where ANC activists Tim Jenkin (Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee...

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Invisible Man, The - Following The Handmaid's Tale and now this, Elisabeth Moss must be resigned to the fact that producers see her anguished features as made for suffering. She...

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Dark Waters - Producer Ruffalo casts Ruffalo the actor perfectly here as the lawyer who took on America's most powerful chemical company against all the odds. He's heroic, tenacious...

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Downhill - A remake of a much better Franco-Swedish film called Force Majeure, this drama with a few comedic overtones focuses on an American family, the Stauntons:...

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Little Joe - Invasion of the Body Snatchers is clearly the inspiration for this Euro co-production where, in an unnamed city, a group of scientists is working on new kinds...

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