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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Ella McCay (dir. James L. Brooks)

A young politician juggles family drama with a life-changing opportunity…

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (dir. Rian Johnson)

Benoit Blanc investigates the unusual death of a controversial priest…

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (dir. Emma Tammi)

The possessed animatronics of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza return for more violence…

Jay Kelly (dir. Noah Baumbach)

A famous actor and his loyal manager embark on a tender journey…

Eternity (dir. David Freyne)

A love triangle in the afterlife…

Oh. What. Fun. (dir. Michael Showalter)

An overworked mother leaves her family on their own for Christmas…

It Was Just an Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi)

In Iran, a chance encounter with his former captor leads a mechanic on a moral crusade…

Blue Moon (dir. Richard Linklater)

In 1943, troubled lyricist Lorenz Hart contemplates his stalled career…

Christy (dir. David Michôd)

Christy Martin rises to prominence in women’s boxing…

Left-Handed Girl (dir. Shih-Ching Tsou)

In Taiwan, a single mother and her two young daughters open a night market stall in the city of Taipei…

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