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Return to Silent Hill (2026) 18% 2.5/5 EDIT “Gans and his co-writers layer their narrative (tragic love story; really haunted memories; witch-cult abuse) like game designers Konami layered their game play, but only one nails the experience.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Signing Tony Raymond (2025) 82% 3/5 EDIT “Owen exhibits a depth of understanding for his working class characters (notably a terrific Mira Sorvino as the damaged but determined mom) and sharp wit in his takedown of principle-free college ‘ball big business.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 2.5/5 EDIT “The energy it spends entirely ignoring that it presents a near future American society diametrically inverted to the existing Constitutional democracy (at least, at time of writing) is quite remarkable and hugely disappointing.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Glendora (2026) 4/5 EDIT “Armand’s work offers a Wiseman-like tour-de-force of observational cinematic storytelling; one never senses her camera is intrusive, but the images it captures are indelibly insightful.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Grotesquely ambitious ping-ponger ‘Marty Mauser’ is exactly the fidgety, shouty, sexy, toxic character that is an actor’s dream, and Chalamet goes all in on the acne-scarred young man’s anxiety-inducing geographical and emotional odyssey.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Raja Saab (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Telugu superstar Prabhas shoehorns his appeal into this ill-fitting vehicle, a low-brow pitch to his legion of fans that hurls broad comedy, half-baked horror tropes and laptop special effects with little concern for coherence or character.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 4.5/5 EDIT “If cinema is the only real artform for the masses, then surely SONG SUNG BLUE is the artform at its purest. Isn’t that what Oscar recognises?” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “Dickinson indulges in some showy movie moments in the final few minutes, unnecessarily at odds with the gritty street-level realism of all that goes before.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 4/5 EDIT “Michôd doesn’t rebuild the sports drama genre with his often conventional handling of the material, but nor does he miss the heart and soul of Martin’s story.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Flat Girls (2025) 5/5 EDIT “Few films this year will capture the tenderness of friendship and complexity of coming-of-age like FLAT GIRLS. ” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2/5 EDIT “Cameron’s third space opera/neo-western saga reps the longest running time, thinnest plotting and most risible dialogue of the franchise, while managing to reduce his once cutting-edge visual flair to its most generic baseline functionality.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “[A] remarkably joyous film, a love letter that captures not just the energy of the day-to-day production of BREATHLESS but also the foundations of the legacy it has forged.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review David (2025) 76% 3/5 EDIT “DAVID is an admirably ambitious production, but its overstuffed narrative robs it of any sense of wonder.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Addition (2024) 2/5 EDIT “It’s all negligible melodrama, until Grace decides to cure her mental illness with a good apartment clean-out, and things turn offensively simple-minded.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Call it a Christmas miracle, but Mike P. Nelson’s reboot of this all-but-forgotten slasher franchise is just what the PG-diluted horror genre needs right now.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 2.5/5 EDIT “Brooks was one of the driving intellectual and creative forces behind ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’, arguably the greatest career woman character arc of all time; where’s that guy?” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 3.5/5 EDIT “It is never quite the sum of its parts, but THE CARPENTER’S SON is an earnest, occasionally brilliant, often brutal depiction of faith and family.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Twiggy (2024) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Sadie Frost’s celebration of the ‘60s pop culture icon is a sweet, slight profile that, much like Lesley ‘Twiggy’ Lawson herself, peaks very early on.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 4.5/5 EDIT “Most importantly, writer-director Vanderbilt’s epic yet intimate dramatic thriller ultimately affords each historic figure the filmic legacy their actions deserve.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review This Ordinary Thing (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Davis has an artist’s touch, finding humanity in horror and deep empathy in the grainy grading of his frames. A profoundly potent use of words and images.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Nov 28, 2025 Full Review Kokuho (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Lee’s staging of classic Kabuki productions, the passionate commitment of the entire cast...and the glorious designs of costumers Kumiko Ogawa and Kazuo Matsuda are never not breathtaking.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Nov 28, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Disney’s smartest, cutest, aesthetically-richest animated world gets it wonderfully right, 2 for 2.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Nov 28, 2025 Full Review The Age of Disclosure (2025) 27% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s a polished production, several tiers above the usual Tubi trashpile where a lot of these docos dwell, but it’s now more likely that the inevitable THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE 2 will prove the truth is out there.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Nov 28, 2025 Full Review Heaven (1987) 70% 4.5/5 EDIT “My takeaway (as a fellow agnostic) is that the cumulative effect of the intercutting film images suggests that God’s power is most evident in the creation of art, while personal beliefs are fine and all but…y’know, whatever gets you through the day.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Blue Eyed Girl (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “The pic’s sweet and soulful centre is the lovely Marisa Coughlan, working from her own script; [she] finds a warm truth as ‘Jane’, the 40-ish L.A. mum suddenly faced with a lot of emotional Midwest baggage and bittersweet mature-age dramatics.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Nov 20, 2025 Full Review
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