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2/5
The Thing with Feathers (2025) David Jenkins Empathy and civility are cynically brushed off as performative and self-soothing, as if the film wants you only to believe in the restorative methods that it’s selling.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Esther Rosenfield Without any of the game’s tension-releasing exploration and puzzle-solving breaks, it has a nightmare flow, constantly upending its own logic and the geometry of its spaces.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Katherine McLaughlin Cooper’s kinetic camerawork and Matthew Libatique’s dynamic cinematography mirrors the exhausting balancing act of middle age perfectly fine without having to spell it out for the audience.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Saipan (2025) Hannah Strong Hardwicke’s magneticism aside, it’s an enjoyable but featherlight affair.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Josh Slater-Williams F is for Face is the most important part of the acting, and luckily, Foy excels at the assignment, conveying so much of the physical toll in her eyes and the tiniest facial flickers alone.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
State of Statelessness (2024) Anna Stafford It’s a sincere and quietly moving film, if not one that lingers or astonishes.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Hannah Strong The Bone Temple offers a heady mix of stomach-churning violence, absurdist humour and surprising glimmers of tenderness.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Bulk (2025) David Jenkins The film doesn’t offer any clear revelations or insights, but it’s a fun piece of homemade cinema that definitely doesn’t outstay its welcome.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Rental Family (2025) Fatima Sheriff An American impulse for neat endings and recognisable stories gets in the way, but Rental Family is still beautifully written and gives little windows into Japanese life.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Giant (2025) Mike McCahill 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.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Luke Hicks It’s Sachs’ best film yet.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Hamnet (2025) David Jenkins While there’s definitely an anatomical study of heterosexual relationships here that sings with a modern resonance, the film’s coup de grâce frames art itself as an arcane source of mental wellbeing.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) Anna Stafford The Final Act is not attempting reinvention so much as consolidation. If its aim is to frame Bowie’s final years as a deliberate act of authorship, the film largely succeeds.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Housemaid (2025) Hannah Strong The Housemaid lacks the guile to transform its flaws into future camp classic material.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Hannah Strong Although the third act sags a little under the weight of Marty’s hubris, it’s impossible to deny Safdie is working at a remarkable technical level.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Kambole Campbell Some will find the earnest silliness which ties a lot of Fire and Ash​’s beats together tiresome, but it’s what keeps them feeling real and not just empty capitalisation on a billion dollar box office.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Animalia (2023) Anton Bitel This debut feature from co-writer/director Sofia Alaoui is a mystery – enigmatic and abstract.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Ella McCay (2025) Anna Stafford The performances are lively, the pacing steady, and the plot unfolds with ease, suggestive of a director who still knows how to juggle politics and comedy.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Christmas, Again (2014) David Jenkins It’s a tender and warm film about missed connections and ships that, for whatever reason, end up passing in the night.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Juan Barquin With no substance and no style to be found, all that is left in Wicked: For Good is two actresses, doing more than just belting their hearts out by giving genuinely compelling performances.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Dragonfly (2025) Emily Maskell It is utterly frustrating that something so brilliantly built up comes tumbling down in a clumsy, unbalanced final act.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Dreamers (2025) David Jenkins Dreamers is slight but effective, and perhaps doesn’t quite come back from a twist that occurs about two thirds of the way in when Isio’s situation suddenly changes.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Cheyenne Bart-Stewart It’s impressive to see Johnson maintain his topical observations and satirical jabs while confidently recalibrating to provide a mystery that shows the genre still has something meaningful to say.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Blue Moon (2025) David Jenkins The film is talky and stagebound, yet cinematographer Shane F Kelly manages to create pockets of intrigue within the layout of the bar.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) David Jenkins While there’s a sense that the thesis here lacks originality, there are enough audiovisual flights of fancy to keep the cheeky intellectual jiggery-pokery ticking along nicely.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Anton Bitel In what is essentially a long, barrelling chase movie, the action is relentless, and has little respect for the limits of physiological suffering let alone physical laws.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Billie Walker Though not beyond salvaging as The Carpenter’s Son offers some moments of biblical horror, including an Hieronymus Bosch-like depiction of hell, it doesn’t succeed in pushing past mild discomfort.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Fiume o morte! (2025) David Jenkins Part of the fun of Fiume o morte! is watching how the locals slink into their roles and gain confidence as things move forward – some eventually going all-out to achieve dramatic authenticity.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Ice Tower (2025) Anton Bitel The Ice Tower is as fragile and delicate as a snowflake, as disorientating and mysterious as adolescence, and as dark as a winter’s night.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Predators (2025) Hannah Strong It’s uncomfortable and often disturbing viewing, but Osit’s unsentimental, self-critical and refreshingly thoughtful approach makes Predators one of the most valuable entries into a saturated genre, prioritising ethics over emotion.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Keeper (2025) Marina Ashioti There is ultimately no palpable desire to make the film’s emotional or genre undercurrents connect on any level.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Anna McKibbin It’s hard not to enjoy the chaos that this sprawling cast leave in their wake.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Nuremberg (2025) Lillian Crawford James Vanderbilt tackles the trial that brought down one of the Third Reich’s architects as he attempts a well-intentioned but superficial attack on the current rise of American fascism.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Running Man (2025) David Jenkins The humour in the script is mostly juvenile and flat.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Belén (2025) David Jenkins In all aspects, this is a superior version of this type of story, from the quality of its performances, its refusal to bow to easy sentiment, the lack of an obvious antagonist, and also the lively repartee between all the main protagonists.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Anemone (2025) David Jenkins After a strong opening drag, there’s the feeling that the film doesn’t really have anything more to say, its revelations seeming fairly paltry in the scheme of things.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Justine Smith Considering the film’s attention to detail in creating a planet brimming with unusual lifeforms, it is an absolute waste to relegate the film’s climax to what looks like a dark backlot.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Train Dreams (2025) Laura Venning 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.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Shelby Oaks (2023) Billie Walker Despite his commitment to the genre, what Stuckmann seems to have forgotten is that the magic of found footage comes in the moments where you’re forced to ruminate on the grainy shots of a shadowy figure in the background.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Relay (2024) David Jenkins Even if it does eventually crumble to pieces, it’s a really strong thriller for the large majority of its runtime.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Kontinental '25 (2025) Marina Ashioti It’s a film that is firmly grounded in the geopolitical specificity of Cluj, exploring ethnic tensions, economic inequalities, legacies of totalitarianism, the brutality of capitalism and the destructiveness of real estate.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Palestine 36 (2025) Marcel Steinbauer-Lewis Occasionally, this devolves into lazy, newspaper-headline storytelling, but at its best it cuts between historical footage and new material and achieves the awed emotional resonance of connecting history with the present.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Redoubt (2025) Lucy Peters It’s built with sturdy ambition and a heart of gold, and Lavant is in his absolute element as the agitated, toiling farmhand.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Memory of Butterflies (2025) Lucy Peters With this meditative yet challenging work that seeks to balance our personal bond with the earth against the unsettling realities of colonialist dislocation, what emerges is an evocative exploration into how we actually think about memory.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Hotel London (1987) Lucy Peters The bare-bones of British austerity is matched by genuine poiesis amidst each character’s enduring call for a better life answered 38 years later with little separation.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Mare's Nest (2025) Lucy Peters Shot beautifully on 16mm, it serves as the perfect cinematic antidote to technological burnout, albeit with a strangely sinister underbelly.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Dry Leaf (2025) Lucy Peters Once adjusted, the most pictorial landscape cinema appears, rewiring our expectation of film entirely, and our own capacity for comprehension.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Lucy Peters If I Had Legs aims high, and hits harder than most this year – a film guaranteed to knock the breath out of you.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) David Jenkins Where the film suffers is in its lack of a coherent dramatic arc, as it instead chronicles a chunk of time that marks a confluence of small epiphanies and aching fallbacks.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Mastermind (2025) Hannah Strong Kelly Reichardt's Vietnam-era heist drama is immediately engaging in its opaqueness.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
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