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Other (2025) James Croot While not exactly subtle, Other certainly isn’t without artful jump-inducing moments and a creeping sense of dread, even if it feels like a lesser version of New Zealand’s own Housebound.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) James Croot Very much a "re-quel" in the spirit of the most recent Scream movies, it follows a new group of teens, while also finding room for Summer veterans Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) James Croot Credit Mexican director Michelle Garza Cervera and Sanctuary screenwriter Micah Bloomberg for altering some of the first version’s more preposterous elements and creating credible tension between the two women.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Freaked (1993) James Croot The Naked Gun or Flying High of body horror movies, no other movie boasts Mr. T as a Bearded Lady, Keanu Reeves as a dog boy, Bobcat Goldthwait voicing a sock puppet and Brooke Shields openly expressing her hatred for Return to the Blue Lagoon.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Chain Reactions (2024) James Croot Worth watching just for the plethora of recommendations of other horrors to seek out.
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Caught Stealing (2025) James Croot Darren Aronofsky's thrilling crime-comedy is a terrific showcase for Elvis and Dune star Austin Butler.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Bugonia (2025) James Croot A wild battle of wits and wills, all of which builds to striking denouement that is perhaps on the one hand predictable, but also perfect for what is, at its heart, a bleak, black comedy.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Good Fortune (2025) Graeme Tuckett It veers awfully close to being irritatingly smug and self-satisfied. But the likeability of Reeves and Rogen, with Sandra Oh and Keke Palmer, mostly powers it through a couple of tone-deaf patches.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Pike River (2025) Graeme Tuckett Pike River is a damn near-perfect film. It succeeds thunderously well at bringing to life the story it sets out to tell. And it treats the people and the communities of the coast with palpable aroha and respect.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Lesbian Space Princess (2025) James Croot With its simplistic animation and cynical sensibilities there’s something of a South Park swagger about the storyline, although it also possesses an underlying sweetness and attention to detail that sets it apart.
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Hedda (2025) James Croot A bold retelling, from its opening quote by Greek playwright Antiphanes to its searing final image, Hedda is a triumphant showcase for both Thompson and DaCosta.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Regretting You (2025) James Croot This latest Colleen Hoover adaptation lacks the Lively-ness of It Ends With Us, its teen travails outshining the adult angst.
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4/5
Frankenstein (2025) Graeme Tuckett This is a sprawling, nakedly operatic, slightly camp and completely singular film.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Graeme Tuckett It's an ambitious film, that tries to do and say a lot. But the performances hold it together, and the music gets its due. Which matters.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) James Croot A film of moments, very human drama and rising horror, A House of Dynamite is perhaps 2025’s most compelling, vital and thought-provoking two hours of entertainment.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) James Croot It’s not perfect, a mid-section interlude is a touch ponderous and a late revelation lacks the emotional impact it probably should have, but this Ballad is more proof of why both Berger and Farrell are currently at the top of their game.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) James Croot This boat-based tale is a slightly uneasy mix of Agatha Christie-style crime-solving and modern-day psychological thriller.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Black Phone 2 (2025) James Croot Despite it offering solid scares and an entertaining premise, by attempting to both de-mystify and truly demonise its villain, it’s "destroying the thing you love the most" about the first movie – its directness and enigmatic feel.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
A Little Something Extra (2024) Graeme Tuckett A Little Something Extra is predictable, saccharine, manipulative and contrived. But it is also a genuinely funny and occasionally quite moving wee film, with its heart in the right place.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Roofman (2025) Graeme Tuckett Roofman is a good natured romp of a film. The performers are mostly superb, the writing is engaging and funny, and everything looks and sounds great.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Eleanor the Great (2025) James Croot Scarlett Johansson’s feature debut as a director is a cleverly crafted crowd-pleaser.
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2.5/5
Went Up the Hill (2024) Graeme Tuckett It's a very fine line between a film being artful and enigmatic, and an impenetrable load of unintentionally hilarious wallop.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Graeme Tuckett There's a palpable heart and soul here, under the layers of effects and wizardry.
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John Candy: I Like Me (2025) James Croot A charming and moving tribute to a man who believed "the secret to acting is to pretend real hard".
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lost Bus (2025) James Croot At times unbelievably tense and gripping, it’s the potent combination of director Paul Greengrass’ trademark intimate, almost documentary style framing and his co-writer Brad Ingelsby’s rich characterisations and ear for dialogue that really engrosses.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Holy Cow (2024) James Croot France’s answer to a Ken Loach movie or Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper, Louise Courvoisier’s double Cesar-winning dramedy and feature debut showcases some fabulous performances from its young, non-professional cast.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
HIM (2025) Graeme Tuckett Him is a procession of over art-directed sequences in search of a story.
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4/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Graeme Tuckett Put away all your preconceptions about "fight movies" and go and have a look. You might be as impressed as I was.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Graeme Tuckett One Battle After Another is a big, brawling, literate, hellishly funny, occasionally confusing and deeply lovable film.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Prime Minister (2025) Graeme Tuckett I reckon you’ll be impressed at how deftly the film has been assembled, and at the astonishing access that we are granted. And maybe, you’ll also be shaken by the reminder of what a kinder, more collegial place this once was, not so long ago.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Sketch (2024) James Croot Yes, there’s a certain Goosebumpy-ness to being terrorised by your own chalk and crayon creations, but there’s a heart and soul to Sketch that means it is has far more to offers its younger viewers than just crowdpleasing frights, pratfalls and pee gags.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
12 Monkeys (1995) James Croot It’s our own "Cassandra Complex" about what’s transpired in the past three decades that makes re-watching it now even more disquieting, unnerving and thoroughly engrossing.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Swiped (2025) James Croot Credit Goldenberg with ensuring this is more than just a one-dimensional #MeToo story, even if some of the male characters are. One particular piece of misdirection is brilliantly executed.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Kangaroo (2025) James Croot While the script is littered with predictable beats, pratfalls and pee gags, at least Harry Cripps’ redemption tale provides something of a fresh spin on the traditional Doc Hollywood/Cars/Groundhog Day conceit.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Bad Guys 2 (2025) Graeme Tuckett The animation rips across the screen in a riot of colour and movement, and switches styles in a way that is happily dizzying, but also speaks of a deep love and understanding of the medium from director Pierre Perifel and his crew.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Graeme Tuckett With a couple of lesser actors, playing this material only for sighs and laughs, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey could have become an annoying mess, very quickly.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Flight Risk (2025) James Croot Yes, there’s a solid piece of misdirection and nice double-double cross, but it’s hard to take the main antagonist seriously when does creepy things with twist ties and confesses to having "made a Jackson Pollock in my pants".
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) James Croot It reminded me of Ron Howard’s under-rated 1996 Mel Gibson-starrer Ransom, with its flawed protagonist and shifting sympathies, while Washington and Wright bring both gravitas and complexity to their characters and key relationship.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Long Walk (2025) Graeme Tuckett One of the strongest thrillers of the year, and one of the best Stephen King adaptations for decades.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Graeme Tuckett The audience I sat with were chuckling along for most of the film's two hours, and they mostly seemed to agree that, although it hadn't set the world on fire, it was a decent enough extended final episode to go out on.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Splitsville (2025) Graeme Tuckett Splitsville is roughly half the film it could have been. And, incidentally, not nearly as good as the film the trailer is promising.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Sorry, Baby (2025) Graeme Tuckett A blackly funny and wise gem of a film.
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3.5/5
The Roses (2025) Graeme Tuckett As long as you can ignore what the film isn't doing, and just enjoy the mostly new story it is laying out, I reckon you'll be happy enough you took the time to see it.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Thursday Murder Club (2025) James Croot Although the screenwriters try to inject some humour, style and swagger into the story, the presence of veteran Hollywood director Chris Columbus at the helm only confirms a sense of franchise-building, rather than delivering something truly special.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
How to Make a Killing (2024) James Croot It’s all held together by some smart, sharp scripting, unfussy direction and impressive and compelling turns by both Dubosc and the luminous Calamy.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Graeme Tuckett This new The Toxic Avenger works because Blair and everyone involved have taken the assignment seriously and set out to make the film as good as it can possibly be, while not forgetting the original is a legendary piece of demented midnight cultdom.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) Graeme Tuckett The Ballad of Wallis Island is a genuinely laugh-out-loud and crowd-pleasing yarn that will win over pretty much anyone.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
DEVO (2024) James Croot If there’s one thing you take away from Devo the documentary, it’s that you’ll never hear the phrase, "We Smell Sausage", in quite the same way ever again.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Eenie Meanie (2025) James Croot While the rapid tonal shifts occasionally graunch, there’s a lot to like about Eenie Meanie. With its combination of colourful characters and copious action sequences, it reminds one of Edgar Wright’s crowdpleasing Baby Driver.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Night Always Comes (2025) James Croot Perhaps Night Always Comes’ biggest strength though is its insistence that there are no easy answers. The bittersweet, melancholic ending won’t be for everyone, but it feels fitting.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
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