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Reviews of Six Minutes To Midnight, Retaliation, The Banishing, Memories of My Father, Made in Italy and Malmkrog

Six Minutes To Midnight (12A)
Directed by Andy Goddard
★★★

EDDIE IZZARD’S new mystery thriller explores the fascinating, little-known history of a Sussex finishing school for girls which was used to educate the daughters and god-daughters of the Nazi high command in the 1930s.

The Augusta Victoria College for girls in Bexhill-on-Sea is the backdrop for this Hitchcockian tale, set 17 days before the beginning of World War II, in which Izzard plays a British intelligence agent who infiltrates the school following the mysterious disappearance of an English teacher.

Retaliation (18)
Directed by Ludwig Shammasian and Paul Shammasian
★★★★

The Banishing (15)
Directed by Christopher Smith
★★★

Memories of My Father
Directed by Fernando Trueba
★★★★

Made in Italy (15)
Directed by James D’Arcy

Malmkrog (12)
Directed by Cristi Puiu
★★

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