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Mike McCahill

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BBC film critic.

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Giant (2025) 61% 1/5 EDIT “The material throws in the towel long before the bathetic finale; the inevitable post-fadeout footage of the real Hamed in his dynamic prime is a hundred times more stirring than anything preceding it.” – Little White Lies Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 81% 3/5 EDIT “Whether its spitballing silliness will linger when the lights come up is debatable, but it’s a solid SpongeBob movie -- and by far the funniest Pirates of the Caribbean movie.” – Guardian Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Sisu 2 is a more-of-the-same sequel. The good news is that it remains terrific: punchy, old-school stunt work, crisply uncluttered cutting, and varied, inventive baddie-splattering.” – Guardian Nov 19, 2025 Full Review John Cleese Packs It In (2025) 2/5 EDIT “This bathetic endeavour proves unintentionally revealing in one respect. This Cleese -- still front-facing, but fragile and frazzled -- inhabits a strange limbo: can absolutely no one now afford a long, happy and restful retirement?” – Guardian Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) 96% 2/5 EDIT “Its gleeful perversity is semi-interesting: what the success of these titles tells us is that there’s an audience whose desires aren’t currently being met by Hollywood pencil-pushers. Man, is it male-oriented, though.” – Guardian Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Queen of the Ring (2024) 73% 3/5 EDIT “Avildsen is prone to luxuriating in his own Americana -- the midsection is somewhat baggy -- and you sometimes sense the writing tiptoeing around the wrestling scene’s less salubrious aspects. The stronger stretches, though, display ample pluck and moxie.” – Guardian Sep 15, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “It works because Guest, Reiner, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer establish a painfully credible dynamic between the Tap's three frontmen and combine to tell as an engaging a story.” – Cinesthesia Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% 2/5 EDIT “Wilson and Farmiga remain solidity incarnate, capable of enlivening even speculative spiritual dialogue. The film-making pulls no surprises out of the hat, though, and gives no indication that it would if it could.” – Guardian Sep 3, 2025 Full Review On Swift Horses (2024) 53% 3/5 EDIT “Kass and Minahan combine old and new while rubbing suggestively against the grain: the familiar pleasures of watching charismatic young actors meet the novelty of seeing them plugged into situations our period dramas have historically overlooked.” – Guardian Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Four Mothers (2024) 92% 3/5 EDIT “In places, Four Mothers skews broad: one joke involving the word “pouffe” is eminently guessable. Yet it’s modulated by the sweetness in these performances, and by McArdle in particular, soft, rueful and armed with the most thoughtful writing here.” – Little White Lies Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Screamboat (2025) 51% 1/5 EDIT “One point in favour of these cheap-and-cheerless cash-ins: in an era of dead-eyed data scraping, they may yet radicalise a generation of sleepover attenders to pursue ways of toughening up copyright law.” – Guardian Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The Woman in the Yard (2025) 41% 2/5 EDIT “For an hour or so, it’s intriguing; we don’t know where we stand exactly, and there’s an awful lot in the air. It settles shruggingly, however, and some of what is being juggled is revealed as decidedly secondhand.” – Guardian Mar 28, 2025 Full Review Singham Again (2024) 32% 2/5 EDIT “The sequels have got bigger and emptier; this one leaves us watching shopworn action tropes being wrapped in the flag of nationalism and listlessly if noisily tossed around.” – Guardian Nov 3, 2024 Full Review Mr. & Mrs. Mahi (2024) 64% EDIT “What follows, as Mahendra pivots to coaching and nudges his wife towards the spotlight, is a small monument to partnership building.” – Guardian Jun 3, 2024 Full Review Jawan (2023) 89% 3/5 EDIT “Jawan will prove no more enduring than Pathaan in the Khan pantheon, but it’s a semi-fascinating display of star power, and a rollicking (if bumpy) Friday-night ride.” – Guardian Sep 8, 2023 Full Review The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 86% EDIT “Individual scenes offer an early demonstration of the leading lady's tenacity, and you can always admire Asther's skilful, subtle tightrope-walking in a role that could so easily have slipped into stereotype.” – Cinesthesia Apr 24, 2023 Full Review Assassin Club (2023) 13% 2/5 EDIT “Everyone is travelling economy, with a tatty script stuffed way down, out of shame, in their carry-on luggage.” – Guardian Apr 12, 2023 Full Review The Pope's Exorcist (2023) 51% 2/5 EDIT “Crowe is by far the film’s strongest suit, pre-empting (some of) our gigglier responses and mitigating against (some of) the material’s flimsiness.” – Guardian Apr 10, 2023 Full Review Selfiee (2023) 18% 3/5 EDIT “Another broad, sitcom-bright crowdpleaser, prone to abusing the wacky sound effect button, this latest Mehta comedy has nevertheless been packaged with a professionalism that’s hard to deny.” – Guardian Feb 24, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “It remains one of the great, timeless screen romances - in part because it addresses, in smart, adult fashion, those issues that still threaten to deprive young lovers everywhere of the earthly happiness that is their right.” – Cinesthesia Dec 28, 2022 Full Review Watcher (2022) 88% 4/5 EDIT “A very solidly engineered Hitchcockian throwback.” – Guardian Nov 2, 2022 Full Review The Last Heist (2022) 2/5 EDIT “The Last Heist is not the worst try at this sort of material, but you can already hear it circling the bargain bin.” – Guardian Nov 1, 2022 Full Review Vikram Vedha (2022) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Pushkar-Gayatri are keen tinkerers, and there is genuine pleasure in watching a Saturday-night spectacle where all the nuts, bolts and pistons are operating more or less as they should.” – Guardian Sep 30, 2022 Full Review The Cancer Conflict (2021) 3/5 EDIT “[A] tricky yet involving documentary...” – Guardian Sep 13, 2022 Full Review Redeeming Love (2022) 11% 2/5 EDIT “This movie thinly scatters a parable’s worth of plot across 134 minutes and resembles HBO’s Deadwood recut for Sunday-school purposes: pious, puzzling and punitive, with a sternly wagging finger never far from entering the frame.” – Guardian Sep 12, 2022 Full Review
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