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Join Simon Morris in the best seat in the house as he reviews the latest movies.

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00:05:28

Decision to Leave

At The Movies ·

2022/11/02

Decision to Leave is a brilliantly complex South Korean thriller about a policeman who finds himself falling for a murder suspect.

00:05:50

At The Movies - Dame Valerie Adams: More Than Gold

At The Movies ·

2022/10/26

Dame Valerie Adams: More than Gold tells the story of one of our most acclaimed sporting figures, and her dream to make it to her fifth Olympics, in Tokyo. Produced by Leanne Pooley (Beyond the edge) and directed by Briar March (Mothers of the revolution)

00:06:14

At The Movies - Black Adam

At The Movies ·

2022/10/26

Black Adam sees Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) produce and star in his first comic-book franchise film. But where does this character fit in the DC Extended Universe?

00:06:43

At The Movies - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

At The Movies ·

2022/10/26

In Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, Lesley Manville casts a charming spell as a working-class Englishwoman who falls in love with a Christian Dior dress.

00:22:24

At The Movies for Wednesday 26 October

At The Movies ·

2022/10/26

Simon Morris looks at three very different movie heroes - a comic book demigod, a lovable cleaner with an impossible dream, and a real life New Zealand sporting heroine.

00:06:05

At The Movies - The 355

At The Movies ·

2022/10/19

The 355 - a film that came to life as a blockbuster thriller with a feminist twist and ended up a programme filler on Prime Video. (Stars Oscar-winners Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz and Lupita Nyong'o)

00:05:03

At The Movies - The Good Boss

At The Movies ·

2022/10/19

The Good Boss is an award-winning Spanish film about an unusually toxic boss. In it, Javier Bardem proves there's no-one better at selling deviousness wrapped in charm.

00:22:03

At The Movies for 19 0ctober 2022

At The Movies ·

2022/10/19

Simon Morris looks at three films that all, one way or another, play with audience expectations of a happy ending.

00:22:03

At The Movies for 19 October 2022

At The Movies ·

2022/10/19

Simon Morris looks at three films that all, one way or another, play with audience expectations of a happy ending.

00:06:05

At The Movies - The 355

At The Movies ·

2022/10/19

The 355 started out as a blockbuster thriller with a feminist twist, and ended up a programme filler on Prime Video. Stars Oscar-winners Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz and Lupita Nyong'o.

00:05:58

At The Movies - Luckiest Girl Alive

At The Movies ·

2022/10/19

The Netflix film Luckiest Girl Alive stars Mila Kunis as a woman in danger of her carefully-arranged life falling apart.

00:06:11

At The Movies: Don't Worry Darling

At The Movies ·

2022/10/12

Pop star-turned-actor Harry Styles is by no means the biggest problem with this highly publicised film, says Simon Morris.

00:22:16

At The Movies for 12 October 2022

At The Movies ·

2022/10/12

Simon Morris wonders why so many movies at the moment can't seem to end satisfactorily. He checks out a nihilistic thriller, an alternative reality movie with too many twists and turns, and a star studded comedy-thriller that fails at the finish line.

00:06:56

At The Movies - Amsterdam

At The Movies ·

2022/10/12

Pulling off a realistic comedy thriller with an array of eccentric characters played by Hollywood stars is more than writer-director David O Russell can muster, says Simon Morris.

00:05:33

At The Movies - Memory

At The Movies ·

2022/10/12

Memory is an unmemorable action film starring Liam Neeson as an ageing hitman with Alzheimer's.

00:06:05

At The Movies - Catherine Called Birdy

At The Movies ·

2022/10/05

Catherine Called Birdy is a medieval coming-of-age film about a 13th-century girl with a 21st-century attitude.

00:05:20

At The Movies - Millie Lies Low

At The Movies ·

2022/10/05

Millie Lies Low is a comedy-drama about a young Kiwi woman who panics just before leaving for her dream job in New York. Can she fool her friends into thinking that she's in the Big Apple? The film looks great but walks a fine line between quirk and bleakness, says Simon Morris.

00:06:40

At The Movies - Blonde

At The Movies ·

2022/10/05

Blonde is a "fictional biography" of screen legend Marilyn Monroe. Cuban-born actor Ana de Armas is astonishingly convincing in this uncompromising and tragic take on the American Dream, says Simon Morris.

00:22:40

At The Movies for 5 October

At The Movies ·

2022/10/05

Simon Morris welcomes several new women-driven movies, and wishes the directors would hurry up with their next projects. This week, films from New Zealand's Michelle Savill and the hard-working Lena Dunham, and the latest take on the well-worn story of Marilyn Monroe.

00:21:49

At The Movies for 28 September

At The Movies ·

2022/09/28

Simon Morris reviews three films he wouldn't necessarily have gone to by choice - a light-hearted road movie from Iran, a French couple who bonded over their love of volcanoes, and a film about Superman's dog. He really liked two of them…

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