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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Sisu: Road to Revenge (dir. Jalmari Helander)

In 1946 Finland, a former commando faces a dangerous enemy linked to his past…

Wicked: For Good (dir. Jon M. Chu)

Elphaba and Glinda find themselves on different paths in the land of Oz…

Train Dreams (dir. Clint Bentley)

A logger (Edgerton) contributes to the construction of a new railroad across 20th-century America…

Keeper (dir. Osgood Perkins)

A romantic trip turns terrifying for a mysterious couple…

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (dir. Ruben Fleischer)

The magician outlaw group known as the Four Horsemen recruit a new generation for their latest heist…

In Your Dreams (dir. Alex Woo)

Two siblings enter the magical world of their dreams…

Nuremberg (dir. James Vanderbilt)

In post-war Europe, a psychiatrist assesses former top Nazi Hermann Göring…

The Running Man (dir. Edgar Wright)

In a dystopian future, a struggling man enters a deadly reality TV show…

Anemone (dir. Ronan Day-Lewis)

A former soldier reunites with his brother after living in isolation…

Predator: Badlands (dir. Dan Trachtenberg)

A young Predator sets out to prove himself on a remote planet…

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