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North (1994) Stephen Amidon The direction of the usually reliable Rob Reiner fails to take adventure of the film's satirical possibilities, playing instead for the broadest possible laughs and most sugary emotions.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Saipan (2025) Jonathan Romney ...Saipan may not always be transparent to non-initiates, but it astutely balances the episode’s resonance — rooting it in Irish national self-confidence at that period — with droll touches of humdrum domesticity.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mercy (2026) Jonathan Romney ...Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) makes Mercy...a brain-frying mess of noisy agitation.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Danny Leigh Restructuring has never been so bloody.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Rip (2026) Danny Leigh Director Joe Carnahan brings snap, but this is basic beer-and-pizza stuff with a high-end finish.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Danny Leigh The cast do admirable work in a film that must have tested them too. The result is exactly as harrowing as it needs to be.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Danny Leigh Less caffeinated than Boyle, [Nia DaCosta's] cool eye is exactly what the movie needs — moonlit clarity amid the madness.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Rental Family (2025) Danny Leigh A different movie might find Phillip stricken by identity crises. Rental Family, though, doesn’t give him much identity to start with beyond an artless sweet nature.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Jonathan Romney As it happens, neither the film nor its couple is terribly interested in anyone they meet on vacation, they’re so smugly absorbed in each other...
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hamnet (2025) Danny Leigh In the end, the film that takes his name becomes a polished hymn to great art. In great art itself, though, life is rarely so neat — and death never this tidy.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Giant (2025) Jonathan Romney Giant is solid, energetic, at times visibly somewhat cut-price. It’s also more than a little schematic, but in terms of its going back to the simple lessons of the tarnished-triumph sports drama, you can see why Stallone would want to be involved
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Wild London (2026) Rebecca Nicholson Wild London is a crowd-pleaser through and through, but the real treat is seeing Attenborough on camera as a presenter once again.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) Jonathan Romney The subject matter may be cooked, but Wiseman serves it fresh and ungarnished.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Danny Leigh At its simplest, the movie is a flyover-state love story. You brace for condescension, but director Craig Brewer is better than that. Fun is had with the modest horizons of the semi-pro musician.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) Jonathan Romney Stiasny’s account feels scrappy and unfocused, though it contains occasional grist.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Housemaid (2025) Jonathan Romney Everything is twisty — except the clichés, which come at us dead straight.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Danny Leigh The tone is rich and sophisticated. Shadows of childhood tragedy and adult mis-steps fall across the drama. Sorrow is often in the air. This in no way sits oddly with a number of excellent jokes, including a doozy about Ikea.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Danny Leigh The pleasures are many: an electric star turn from Timothée Chalamet; a splendid diorama of Manhattan’s Lower East Side circa 1952...And we get a wholly fresh take on that ever-popular genre, the ping-pong movie.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Accidental Tourist (2025) Rebecca Nicholson The show presents itself as less serious than it is. Ant and Dec take delight in watching a rattled man as he marvels at a culture entirely unfamiliar to him. But Accidental Tourist is more emotionally astute than that.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) Jonathan Romney It may not include a huge amount that is unfamiliar, but it stands out in being comprehensive and up to date, tying up loose threads in the story while also following the odd new avenue that merits further exploration.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Nigel Andrews This movie make-over of a Stephen King chiller is adroit, stylish and empty-headed.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Breakdown: 1975 (2025) Rebecca Nicholson ...it is a neatly packaged and entertaining reminder of greatness and leaves the viewer with a handy list of films to rewatch over the festive period.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Ella McCay (2025) Jonathan Romney This is a woolly, self-congratulatory fossil of a film, nostalgic for an imaginary past in US politics when an idealist’s only real obstacle was the jadedness of an older generation.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Danny Leigh Fire and Ash is again a loud hymn to nature that is also deeply, pointedly inorganic.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Tale of Silyan (2025) Jonathan Romney The ending is upbeat, perhaps contrivedly so, but Kotevska cannily pulls you in, merging a feel-good nature story with her depiction of forbidding rural economics. Ultimately, it’s the realism that grips you, even while you’re charmed by the clattering.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Goodbye June (2025) Danny Leigh Despite their initial comic pop, some of the characters sing one note throughout. Frankly, the whole thing needs a 20-minute haircut.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Fackham Hall (2025) Jonathan Romney As a raunchier alternative in panto season, Fackham Hall should more than pass muster — though, might I suggest, it may be enhanced by the addition of intoxicating liquors.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (2025) Rebecca Nicholson This is a special and lovely film.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Eleanor the Great (2025) Jonathan Romney The premise could theoretically have yielded a provocatively uncomfortable comedy in the hands of, say, an Isaac Bashevis Singer or a Larry David; Johansson, alas, approaches it with an uncertain sentimental touch.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Stephen Amidon The resulting blend of dated and simplistic Cold War politics, overwhelming special effects and sentimentality thoroughly undermines the two hours of skillful action and suspense that preceded it.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Danny Leigh As with all of Panahi’s work, you applaud the simple fact of its existence.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Cover-Up (2025) Danny Leigh The movie is a record of decades spent picking locks both inside and out of major American news organisations. (Screw-ups included: the film itself is no whitewash.)
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Eternity (2025) Jonathan Romney This is what movie purgatory must be: great ideas condemned to weary reincarnation.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Prime Minister (2025) Jonathan Romney The film can be read as a record of glorious achievement, or...a tale of tragic failure. But, above all, Ardern is shown proving that it is possible to be a sensitive, compassionate, sane person and a politician...
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Danny Leigh The film is never less than entertaining. The dead don’t stay dead. There are red herrings and devil heads. But something more ambitious is in play too. The movie is another onion, and its layers can feel a little at odds.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Jonathan Romney ...Blue Moon is nostalgic for old Broadway glamour, but also acutely attuned to the desolation behind the glitz. Not so much old-fashioned, then, as resembling an Old Fashioned: freshly mixed, generous with the bitters, a sophisticated, poignant pleasure.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Christy (2025) Jonathan Romney There is a striking story here of a woman deeply alienated from herself, and it deserves something more than a tabloidy true-crime melodrama.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Pillion (2025) Jonathan Romney Streaked through as it is with melancholy, Pillion is ultimately upbeat — a feelgood film about the joys of being treated badly.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Jonathan Romney It’s less sophisticated than the first film, but its brisk humour is dependable value, although some of the action is so frantically accelerated that you can barely make head or tail of it.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Ice Tower (2025) Jonathan Romney Hadžihalilović has always specialised in the hallucinatory but here, writing with Geoff Cox, she works her very singular magic with a fresh, crystalline purity of vision. This frosty masterpiece is its own haunted winter wonderland.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Thing with Feathers (2025) Jonathan Romney When it comes to the Poltergeist-style climax and its face-off between embodiments of Grief and Despair — the latter a demon that seems to have escaped from Hellraiser — the literalness holds sway, disastrously.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Jonathan Romney ...Helander again musters a dazzling, somewhat formalistic exercise in the mechanics of stuntwork, slaughter and getting his hero in and out of impossible situations.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Jonathan Romney This is a serious-minded, atmospheric but tonally incoherent venture.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Danny Leigh It makes a neat takeaway for two bold, impressive movies, whose biggest achievement is to have (mostly) made their own complexity look simple.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) Nigel Andrews The film is photographed in such grained and murky colour that it is like visiting Wonderland in the off-season.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Danny Leigh For all that is wrong with the film, Clooney’s magnetism and Sandler’s vim somehow keep it tolerable. Movie stars really are a different breed.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Nuremberg (2025) Jonathan Romney The very epitome of traditional awards season material, Nuremberg is intelligent, serious-minded, impeccably honourable stuff — even if, as filmmaking, it’s as stodgy as a Bavarian dumpling.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Running Man (2025) Jonathan Romney It all somewhat comes undone in a confusing, slightly desperate coda but is otherwise a genial, bracingly manic entertainment.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Die My Love (2025) Danny Leigh Old hands will brace for horror. And yes, knives are brandished. But Ramsay only toys with the scary stuff. It is just one tone among many in a wild, impressionistic drama about a woman losing her mind.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Train Dreams (2025) Jonathan Romney There are elements of preciousness, but this is a sensitively conceived film, eloquent about the complexity of those countless lives whose stories exist in the crevices of history.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
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