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Saipan (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “...Saipan may not always be transparent to non-initiates, but it astutely balances the episode’s resonance — rooting it in Irish national self-confidence at that period — with droll touches of humdrum domesticity. ” – Financial Times Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 2/5 EDIT “...Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) makes Mercy...a brain-frying mess of noisy agitation.” – Financial Times Jan 23, 2026 Full Review People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 75% 1/5 EDIT “As it happens, neither the film nor its couple is terribly interested in anyone they meet on vacation, they’re so smugly absorbed in each other...” – Financial Times Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Giant (2025) 61% 3/5 EDIT “Giant is solid, energetic, at times visibly somewhat cut-price. It’s also more than a little schematic, but in terms of its going back to the simple lessons of the tarnished-triumph sports drama, you can see why Stallone would want to be involved ” – Financial Times Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The subject matter may be cooked, but Wiseman serves it fresh and ungarnished.” – Financial Times Jan 2, 2026 Full Review The Fall Guy (2024) 82% EDIT “They all bring characterful flesh-and- blood mischief to what could otherwise have been a calculated mirror game of reality and illusion.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) 70% 2/5 EDIT “Stiasny’s account feels scrappy and unfocused, though it contains occasional grist.” – Financial Times Dec 30, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 2/5 EDIT “Everything is twisty — except the clichés, which come at us dead straight.” – Financial Times Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Sky Peals (2023) 100% EDIT “The connecting thread throughout Sky Peals is the extraordinary lead performance by Faraz Ayub. Soft-spoken, recalcitrant, at times even childlike, his Adam is all inwardness, as if folding in himself, imploding slowly into a black hole of self. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “It may not include a huge amount that is unfamiliar, but it stands out in being comprehensive and up to date, tying up loose threads in the story while also following the odd new avenue that merits further exploration. ” – Financial Times Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 1/5 EDIT “This is a woolly, self-congratulatory fossil of a film, nostalgic for an imaginary past in US politics when an idealist’s only real obstacle was the jadedness of an older generation. ” – Financial Times Dec 16, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The ending is upbeat, perhaps contrivedly so, but Kotevska cannily pulls you in, merging a feel-good nature story with her depiction of forbidding rural economics. Ultimately, it’s the realism that grips you, even while you’re charmed by the clattering. ” – Financial Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Fackham Hall (2025) 74% 3/5 EDIT “As a raunchier alternative in panto season, Fackham Hall should more than pass muster — though, might I suggest, it may be enhanced by the addition of intoxicating liquors.” – Financial Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 67% 1/5 EDIT “The premise could theoretically have yielded a provocatively uncomfortable comedy in the hands of, say, an Isaac Bashevis Singer or a Larry David; Johansson, alas, approaches it with an uncertain sentimental touch. ” – Financial Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “This is what movie purgatory must be: great ideas condemned to weary reincarnation.” – Financial Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Prime Minister (2025) 93% 3/5 EDIT “The film can be read as a record of glorious achievement, or...a tale of tragic failure. But, above all, Ardern is shown proving that it is possible to be a sensitive, compassionate, sane person and a politician...” – Financial Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “...Blue Moon is nostalgic for old Broadway glamour, but also acutely attuned to the desolation behind the glitz. Not so much old-fashioned, then, as resembling an Old Fashioned: freshly mixed, generous with the bitters, a sophisticated, poignant pleasure.” – Financial Times Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 2/5 EDIT “There is a striking story here of a woman deeply alienated from herself, and it deserves something more than a tabloidy true-crime melodrama.” – Financial Times Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Pillion (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Streaked through as it is with melancholy, Pillion is ultimately upbeat — a feelgood film about the joys of being treated badly.” – Financial Times Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Human Resource (2025) EDIT “Insightful and intimate beneath its chilly, stylised surface, Thai drama Human Resource plays on the resonance of its English title: what becomes of individuals when people are treated as disposable material to fuel the machinery of the corporate world?” – Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Strange River (2025) EDIT “Mixing sensuality and lyrical atmospherics with an unapologetically highbrow frame of reference (German Romantic drama, modernist architecture), this elegantly confident offering should attract strong art-house interest, not least among LGBTQ+ outlets.” – Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Holy Boy (2025) EDIT “Strippoli and his collaborators undoubtedly have a premise and a visual style that brim with invention, but the liability is an over-crammed, over-extended narrative that doesn’t know when to pull back from febrile overkill.” – Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Full Review I'm Not Stiller (2025) EDIT “The result is ponderous in its sober-minded restraint. And while that discipline works effectively for Beer, Schuch’s mystery man never quite holds the centre, hampered as he is by a role that, of its nature, demands he never quite comes into focus.” – Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Cielo (2025) EDIT “Ultimately the film is further proof that the literary tradition of magical realism too easily turns to kitsch when translated into visual images. ” – Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% EDIT “It is redundant to complain that Jude’s film is overstated -- that is entirely the point -- although some of its excesses are laboured, and some gags just not that funny. But the whole affair keeps reanimating itself with furious, facetious energy. ” – Screen International Nov 26, 2025 Full Review
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