Ten Years

Middle age bites early in middle America if this Big Chill-esque film is to be believed. A group of friends attend their ten year high school reunion and, over a night of drunken revelry, must confront the decisions they have made in life and love in the intervening years. Or, perhaps more usefully, try and have it off with that girl they fancied in chemistry.

Ten Years is a decent, if underwhelming ensemble piece which usually manages to keep on the right side of sentimentality. It's greatest pleasure comes from spotting all the familiar faces in the cast, led by the increasingly ubiquitous Channing Tatum (who also produced). It is not unlikely that we're watching a roll call of actors who will come to dominate our screens over the next decade. Chris Patt is particularly good as Cully, the high school bully determined to atone for his past behaviour, who manages only to prove that none of us ever change. [Keir Roper-Caldbeck]