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Review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

With a franchise hit such as Alien, the audience expects a certain amount of formula, and Scott certainly supplies it in the structure of the…

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Review of Identicals (2015)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

The story runs out of puff long before the end credits but director Simon Pummel works visual wonders with a small budget…

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Review of Mad to Be Normal (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

More illuminating as a character study, with the ever-charismatic Tennant showing how Laing was able to dominate those around him so easily…

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Review of God's Own Country (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

It would be easy to dismiss GOC as Brokeback Mountain with Yorkshire accents, but superb performances all round, by O'Connor In particular,…

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Review of Gold (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

A takedown of the kind of high-octane greed and speculation that lead to financial crashes, it stars Matthew McConaughey in all his sweaty,…

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Review of Dark River (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

While [director Clio] Barnard has been unlucky with timing…

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Review of Roger Waters: The Wall (2014)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

For fans, add a star. For those who cannot bear Another Brick in the Wall - we don't need no educashun refrain et al - take a star off…

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Review of Palio (2015)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

Homing in on a young contender's fight to take the champion's crown, Cosima Spender's film is a gripping, sensual riot of colour and passions…

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Review of Jane Got a Gun (2015)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

Portman makes a convincing frontierswoman as she rides out to protect her home and family…

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Review of The Handmaiden (2016)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

Like reading a Dickens novel (or indeed a Waters yarn) the pleasure lies in taking one's time, losing oneself in a world a long way from our own…

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Review of Stronger (2017)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

While Stronger cannot entirely resist cliches, it tries harder than most to show the jagged reality of a world turned upside down by sudden…

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Review of Ben-Hur (2016)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

A thrill ride in parts, as long as you can forgive the hokiness, wooden dialogue, and long-slog running time…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

The 3D is used to impressive effect…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

Though it is set in 1996, Baltasar Kormakur's stunningly shot Everest is an old school disaster movie of the kind that flourished in the 1970s…

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Review of Black Mountain Poets (2016)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

Fans of Ben Wheatley's Sightseers will be glad to see Alice Lowe turn up in this British comedy of mistaken identity and bad poetry…

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Review of Demolition (2016)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

All credit to Gyllenhaal though for taking a punt on it…

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Review of The D Train (2015)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

A directorial debut, which accounts for a tone that is all over the shop, but some wry smiles to be had, particularly from Marsden strutting…

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Review of Pirates of Salé (2014)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

The surrounding poverty could have made this film a kind of grisly X Factor set in the developing world, but [Directors Rosa Rogers and Merleme…

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Review of Where You're Meant to Be (2016)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

Every now and again a film comes out of nowhere and knocks you sideways…

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Review of Rams (2015)

By Alison Rowat (245) for The Herald (Scotland) (244) on 22 Aug 2018

Amid the grand themes about love of the land and kin are some wonderfully bizarre comic moments. One to savour…

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