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Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller star in The Edge of Love
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Thursday, 19, Jun 2008 09:13
The Edge of Love, Adulthood and The Escapist in this week's biggest film releases.
Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller come together to embody a marketing man's dream this week in The Edge of Love, a tale of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) and the women he loved.
Director John Maybury creates a commendably dream-like palette and Rhys, Miller and Cillian Murphy are in outstanding form but a muddled tone and unsympathetic leads prevent this from being a truly engrossing literary tale.
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Noel Clarke - who you'll recognise as Mickey from Doctor Who even as he scowls away on the poster - emerges as a writer/director to be reckoned with this week as Adulthood - the follow-up to 2005's Kidulthood - hits the screen.
Clarke stars as Sam Peel, newly-released from prison and struggling to cope with his wish to remain calm in face of vengeful foes and mounting internal conflict.
A vivid portrayal of modern Britain.
Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Damian Lewis star in The Escapist, a stunning debut from Rupert Wyatt.
When Frank Perry's (Cox) estranged daughter is taken ill, the old lag concocts a plan to break his prison chains and repair their relationship, teaming up with an unlikely crew to make a subterranean break for freedom.
With the cast inhabiting every pore of their characters, a growing feel of claustrophobia increasing audience involvement and Wyatt managing the tension superbly, it's a masterpiece of British cinema.
The fact that scores of holiday horrors have been made doesn't stop The Ruins from reaching British screens this week, as a group of pretty young students find their archaeological trip to Mexico turning decidedly nasty, with carnivorous plants one of the villains lying in wait.
And finally, Teeth sees high school girl Dawn (an amazing Jess Weixler) discovering that she has a set of gnashers in the most unlikely of places.
This brilliantly-written comedy horror steers well clear of the B-movie territory it seems destined for and a wholly primal fear emerges in one of the year's most original films.