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Philip De Semlyen

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Saipan (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Finally, someone has returned to The Damned United’s cunning formula for a good football movie: don’t show any football. ” – Time Out Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 3/5 EDIT “Movie monsters come in all shapes and sizes, but they’re rarely as diminutive and deceptively cuddly as the pet chimp-turned-brainy-hell​-beast in this endearingly daft B-movie​ horror.” – Time Out Jan 14, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “The Bone Temple is one of those rare sequels that doesn’t just improve on its predecessor, it improves it... This is simultaneously the nastiest and most soulful of the franchise to date -- and the most probing.” – Time Out Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Sure, it’s a somewhat honeyed portrait that lacks voices to put the other side across. But as the flimsiness of the case against Assange is laid bare, so too is a system that tried to suffocate, torture and crush him to protect its interests.” – Time Out Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Unlike the first two Avatars, which even haters would concede were epic journeys of discovery, with Cameron as an attentive guide to a dazzling alien universe, a sense of familiarity kicks in.” – Time Out Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 5/5 EDIT “Marty Supreme is a stunning achievement, a breathless yet precisely controlled joyride full of vivid characters, hairpin turns and did-that-just-happen moments -- and a modernist fairy tale about big ambitions colliding with grubby street-level realities.” – Time Out Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “There have been better animated sequels and more epic ones, but has there ever been a fluffier follow-up than this bouncy, buoyant caper starring at least half the nature world?” – Time Out Nov 25, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “It’s a movie that got up on the wrong side of the bed and compensated with four quadruple espressos.” – Time Out Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 4/5 EDIT “You can feel archival poring that went into the research. It lends authenticity and intellectual rigour to this extraordinary, century-defining event. Crowe and co do the rest. ” – Time Out Nov 12, 2025 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “With Ralph Fiennes gravely essaying the controversial choirmaster at its heart, it does a lovely job of swerving the obvious notes but misplaces its stirring crescendo.” – Time Out Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Dragonfly (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “For a study of human connection at its most honest and affecting, with two remarkable lead performances, Dragonfly is a powerfully striking experience.” – Time Out Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 5/5 EDIT “ Zhao doesn’t just tell you about the healing power of art, she shows you. Prepare your tear ducts accordingly. ” – Time Out Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Souleymane's Story (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Lojkine, who co-wrote the naturalistic screenplay with Delphine Agut, has unearthed a real talent in newcomer Sangaré... It takes more than first-hand experience to inhabit a character with this much subtlety and skill.” – Time Out Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “ Johnson has assembled his strongest cast yet and provides them with entertainingly ‘extra’ characters to inhabit -- and for us to tut at. Best of all, Daniel Craig and Josh O’Connor form a sleuthing double act with shades of Holmes and Watson. ” – Time Out Oct 15, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “With the British action maestro behind the camera, there’s a dispassionate, procedural quality that eschews all the flag-waving that can blight the genre. The flags here are mostly on fire. ” – Time Out Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “With everyone getting their moment, it’s a touching but low-key ending that gathers all your faves together for a last supper. In true Downton style, it goes out not with a bang but with a duck.” – Time Out Sep 9, 2025 Full Review I Swear (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Empathetic, funny and myth-busting, it gives you permission to laugh at the situation while feeling only compassion for the man. ” – Time Out Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Remake (2025) 5/5 EDIT “It’s a funny as well as brutally honest film. ” – Time Out Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Beyond the guilty laughs, authentically beige ’70s period detail and news reportage aesthetic, there’s an offbeat anti-capitalist folk tale here that will strike a chord in the current moment. ” – Time Out Sep 3, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “If you’ve recovered from those Cold War classics, Kathryn Bigelow’s unbelievably stressful nuclear disaster movie is sending you straight back to the basement. ” – Time Out Sep 2, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% 4/5 EDIT “Beyond the regular crunch of fist on bone, The Smashing Machine is an unexpectedly gentle, soulful character study that has Johnson undercutting his crowd-pleasing ‘The Rock’ persona with vulnerability and boyish uncertainty. ” – Time Out Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Landmarks (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Martel’s forensic doc shatters any sense that, for her fellow Argentinians, the colonial burden has been lifted. It’s an intimate pinhole camera capturing an IMAX-sized story.” – Time Out Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% 3/5 EDIT “Not top tier Jarmusch, but still a funny, soulful anthology worth seeking out.” – Time Out Aug 31, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Grab your nan, put the kettle on and enjoy some exceedingly fine thesps hamming it up royally. ” – Time Out Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Viet and Nam (2024) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Almost metaphysical in its deeper mysteries, Viet and Nam is a film where what lies beneath matters most.” – Time Out Aug 13, 2025 Full Review
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