Our Star Ratings

We aim for our reviews to make you hungry for even more visits to the cinema, and our star ratings will whet your appetite and get you reaching for the popcorn!

Here’s a short but useful guide as to what each star rating basically means…

Top quality cuisine

Close to perfection

4halfstarnew

Appetite has been satisfied

You’ll be hungry for more

3halfstarnew

A decent stomach-filler

A bit undercooked

2halfstarnew

Near flavourless

Rotten taste in the mouth

1halfstarnew

An inedible monstrosity

Actual poison

halfstarnew

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Verity (dir. Michael Showalter)

The mysterious life of comatose novelist Verity Crawford is slowly uncovered…

Digger (dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu)

Oil tycoon Digger Rockwell attempts to save humanity from his own disaster…

Extra Geography (dir. Molly Manners)

At an English boarding school, two friends navigate the trials of girlhood…

Hope (dir. Na Hong-Jin)

An alien creature wreaks havoc on a remote South Korean community…

Her Private Hell (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)

In a futuristic city engulfed by mist, an actor and a soldier search for their loved ones…

Heart of the Beast (dir. David Ayer)

A soldier and his combat dog must survive in the Alaskan wilderness…

Sense and Sensibility (dir. Georgia Oakley)

The Dashwood sisters experience love and heartbreak…

Queen at Sea (dir. Lance Hammer)

A university professor experiences a severe moral dilemma with her aging parents…

Resident Evil (dir. Zach Cregger)

A medical courier is assigned a horrifying delivery to Raccoon City…

Bad Apples (dir. Jonatan Etzler)

A schoolteacher goes to extremes to control an unruly student…

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