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Laura Venning

Laura Venning's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The History of Sound (2025) 70% 4/5 EDIT “A profoundly affecting story of doomed love and lost time that boasts captivating performances from Mescal and O’Connor. Come for the boys, stay for the magic of storytelling through song.” – Empire Magazine Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “As absurd as their story is, it’s hard not to be won over by Lightning & Thunder. You will have ‘Sweet Caroline’ stuck in your head for what feels an eternity afterwards, though.” – Empire Magazine Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a real pleasure to be whisked across the world by Baumbach, but perhaps this cinematic glass of Prosecco goes down rather too easily.” – Empire Magazine Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar capture the grandeur, tragedy and intimacy of Johnson’s work without slipping into nostalgia for an idealised kind of West inhabited by John Wayne.” – Little White Lies Nov 8, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% 2/5 EDIT “A genuine disappointment from an intriguing, potentially even subversive premise. It’s another commanding performance to add to Monroe’s oeuvre, but this Cradle is more frustrating and forgettable than it is thrilling.” – Empire Magazine Oct 28, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 3/5 EDIT “A decidedly grown-up thriller that will surely be torn to pieces by teens on TikTok, this feels like a slight wobble for Guadagnino, but is still a sharply entertaining and intense watch.” – Empire Magazine Oct 17, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “Kathryn Bigelow is back with a bang. This is a bleak but adrenaline-pumping experience that’ll leave you shaken, and searching for the nearest bunker.” – Empire Magazine Oct 3, 2025 Full Review 100 Nights of Hero (2025) 68% EDIT “The story unfolds at breakneck speed, with never a dull moment. ” – Little White Lies Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Little Trouble Girls (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Grounded by compelling performances by its two leads, it’s a sexually charged but touching story of adolescent desire in all its dirtiness and divinity.” – Little White Lies Aug 28, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “Maybe this would hit the spot for a Sunday-night sofa slump but it’s more patronising than perceptive when it comes to portraying ageing. As disappointing as a stale scone.” – Empire Magazine Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Materialists, shot on gorgeous 35mm, does manage to capture something of the sheer inexplicable miracle of romance in a world that wants us to view each other as disposable.” – Little White Lies Aug 15, 2025 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a hypnotic descent into the darkness of grief, punctuated by perverse Cronenbergian pleasures.” – Empire Magazine Jul 2, 2025 Full Review From Hilde, With Love (2024) 80% 2/5 EDIT “While its end­ing is a gut-punch it’s a shame that From Hilde, With Love isn’t the for­mal­ly bold, polit­i­cal­ly rad­i­cal film that the Cop­pis deserve.” – Little White Lies Jun 29, 2025 Full Review Elio (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a vivid, sweet but not saccharine voyage of discovery that proves Pixar is still capable of imagination.” – Empire Magazine Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Mountainhead (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “Darkly funny as it descends into farce and ends on a chilling final note, Mountainhead is, unfortunately, truly a film for the 2020s. Just don’t chase it with a doomscrolling session.” – Empire Magazine May 29, 2025 Full Review The Salt Path (2024) 85% 2/5 EDIT “Engaging turns from Anderson and Isaacs can’t elevate a narrative that ultimately goes nowhere, although it might make you want to get the tent out of the attic at long last.” – Empire Magazine May 29, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Where The Wedding Banquet really shines is in its characters, not only in its two romantic pairings that feel profoundly real, but also in subverting our expectations of its intergenerational relationships. ” – Little White Lies May 12, 2025 Full Review The Alto Knights (2025) 40% 3/5 EDIT “It all feels like handsomely crafted Scorsese-lite, but enjoyably so, like sinking into a shabby but much-loved armchair.” – Empire Magazine Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Order (2024) 93% 4/5 EDIT “The Order is as tense and visceral as it is timely.” – Empire Magazine Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “The sequel we didn’t know we needed, Mad About The Boy is a heartfelt, charming return to the chaos surrounding the one and only Bridget Jones. You might even shed a few tears.” – Empire Magazine Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% 4/5 EDIT “A gruelling but ultimately rewarding experience, this is Leigh at his most confrontational, devastating and humane, aided by the unadulterated power of Jean-Baptiste’s career-redefining performance.” – Empire Magazine Feb 4, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Entertaining if inconsequential, Companion is buoyed by solid central performances from actors that seem keenly aware that it’s all just a bit of bloody fun. Viva la robot revolución!” – Empire Magazine Feb 4, 2025 Full Review Here (2024) 36% 2/5 EDIT “Another deeply flawed, tech-forward endeavour for Zemeckis in which glimmers of human emotion only occasionally break through. Like Cloud Atlas for baby boomers experiencing late-middle-age malaise.” – Empire Magazine Feb 4, 2025 Full Review Rumours (2024) 76% 3/5 EDIT “If you like your satire incisive you should perhaps look elsewhere, but the state of the world looks even more laughably absurd through Maddin and the Johnsons’ wickedly warped lens.” – Empire Magazine Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Timestalker (2024) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Timestalker lacks a little humour and insight into obsessive love to make it truly sing, but it’s an admirably ambitious fable that could be destined to become a cult oddity.” – Empire Magazine Oct 8, 2024 Full Review
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