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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