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3/5
State of Statelessness (2024) Cath Clarke A deep and desperately sad mood hangs over the entire project.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) Benjamin Lee A parody that’s not really parodying anything in particular. Everyone is committed to the bit though, whatever the bit might actually be, and the fun that they’re all having is infectious enough to sweep us along too.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Witchboard (2024) Leslie Felperin Tacky as all this is, the fact that the flashbacks are in French adds a slight tang of authenticity.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Grizzly Night (2026) Phil Hoad Doeren clearly has a feel for the bear necessities, but the human interest hardly gets its boots on.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Pike River (2025) Cath Clarke The story is told with restraint, in meticulous detail -- possibly too much detail -- without any Erin Brockovich-type feelgood emotion, never losing sight of the heartbreak and devastation.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Another World (2025) Cath Clarke The movie is about how people ruin everything with their destructiveness, but also about the beauty of the human heart. It’s so inventive and imaginative that I wanted to love it more, but in the end found it a little bit psychologically uninvolving.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Frank & Louis (2026) Benjamin Lee Morgan is the perfect example of a recognisable, but not widely famous character actor who has deserved a bigger, better chance... The heart-wrenching strength of his performance feels like enough to edge him into new, possibly awards-worthy territory.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Leslie Felperin The whole package is an easily digested guilty pleasure.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Silence and Cry (1967) Peter Bradshaw An impenetrable psychological trauma with weird erotic overtones, like an absurdist bad dream transcribed by Kafka.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Union County (2026) Benjamin Lee If Union County serves as proof that Poulter deserves more substantive work and shines a light on people in a remarkable system, then it’s more than worth the choice to go docudrama over drama. But I still craved more of the real people.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Wicker (2026) Benjamin Lee Ultimately, there’s too much here that doesn’t gel, a tonally uneven mix of mostly unfunny bawdy humour, dark fantasy and unlikely romance, too much wood but not enough fire.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Friend's House Is Here (2026) Adrian Horton The colorful characters amiably populating this loose, organic film, played by a collective of real-life underground artists and improv actors, are liable to be harassed, fined, arrested or disappeared at any moment.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Send Help (2026) Peter Bradshaw It’s a time-honoured and perfectly enjoyable setup, and the first act, when the new reality dawns on clueless Bradley, is watchable. But the plot twists are derivative and the action then becomes dependent on weird stabs of grisliness.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Invite (2026) Benjamin Lee It seems that the chance to watch a genuinely funny and uncommonly intelligent comedy for adults is an invite we have all been waiting for.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Gallerist (2026) Benjamin Lee A talented cast put to waste and a director freed from the shackles of superhero cinema not finding her way back to the real world. This one is dead on arrival.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Extra Geography (2026) Adrian Horton That it works -- that the dissolution, in all its mundanities and ordinary indignities, is both painfully funny and a punch in the gut -- is credit to Clear and Duggan, both extraordinary finds in their own ways.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Leviticus (2026) Benjamin Lee Even at a wonderfully concise 86 minutes, the last act runs out of steam a little, but then Chiarella manages to stick the landing quite perfectly.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Incomer (2026) Adrian Horton Where I was put off by The Incomer’s cutesy hijinks, others may find winsome messages on the fickle magic of human connection and the risks of snap judgment. To those people, I wish a pleasant stay on the isle.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Moment (2026) Adrian Horton In other words, smart concepts, talented people, solid blueprint. But there is too little risk to rise above its sharp-eyed construction.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
I Want Your Sex (2026) Benjamin Lee It’s a 90-minute romp that feels longer than that, increasingly unexciting hijinks that are never as amusing or as propulsive as they should be. I Want Your Sex wants our shock, our arousal and our debate but it barely gets our attention.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The History of Concrete (2026) Adrian Horton As a standalone film, The History of Concrete is consistently laugh-out-loud funny, compelling and surprising, if 20 minutes too long. And, of course, about much more than just concrete.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Derek Malcolm The whole thing is based on a novel which should have either remained on the page or been considerably livened up for the screen.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Buddy (2026) Benjamin Lee With the poor child actors forced to stay in well-observed yet progressively grating Nickelodeon schtick, it’s hard to feel all that bothered about their survival.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Carousel (2026) Benjamin Lee The world is not kind to films like Carousel at this very moment and while I would love to see this particular subgenre flourish in the way it used to back in the 90s and 00s, it’s hard to muster up much in the way of strong feelings here.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Tim Pulleine At 107 minutes the film rather outstays its welcome.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Derek Malcolm There's not the slightest hint of the racy irreverence of Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap, nor much of the wicked irony of his misery. This is more like When Harry Truman Met Sally -- a little pat, but equipped with a nicely intriguing premise.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Jesse Hassenger It turns out, making a horror movie where the hero is more casually curious (or oblivious) than scared is a tricky proposition.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Saipan (2025) Peter Bradshaw It’s a story which is capably, straightforwardly told by film-makers Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa, and well acted by its leads Éanna Hardwicke as Keane and Steve Coogan as McCarthy.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Heavyweight (2025) Phil Hoad A shrewd probing of the pressure-cooker environment of modern combat sports.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) Lucy Mangan It is striking and undeniably uplifting how firmly she explains herself, outlines her extraordinary suffering and the psychological effects of intense fear at the hands of a violent man, and puts the responsibility back on Mitchell.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Mercy (2026) Peter Bradshaw It’s ingenious and watchable stuff, with cheeky twists, although the final escalation to full-on action mayhem is maybe a step too far towards pure absurdity.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026) Cath Clarke Never has a film been more deserving of an exclamation mark at the end of the title than this animation from Japan.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Mother of Flies (2025) Leslie Felperin Overall, this is better and glossier than some of the Adams-Poser posse’s earlier efforts, but perhaps not quite enough of an evolution to take their vision to the next level.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (2024) Peter Bradshaw This is an exhausting indie romp on the subject of time travel, and sometimes plays like a funnier version of Shane Carruth’s time-travel classic Primer -- well, slightly funnier.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Seeds (2025) Phuong Le Echoing the cycle of crop cultivation, Shyne’s film inhabits the seasons of life, bookended by images of a funeral and the open sky. This vanishing way of life is imbued with a dose of melancholy, yet hope still remains for a better harvest in the future.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Rip (2026) Benjamin Lee The Rip is ultimately a game for the boys, though, and taken as a piece of boisterous macho pulp, it’s a propulsive enough four-beers-in watch. A movie to be enjoyed on Friday night and forgotten all about by Saturday morning.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Guardian Staff It is pleasant to find that for once Hollywood should allow a Martian to be not an inevitable enemy, but a potential friend and no doubt it is salutary to be reminded that should such a friend arrive on earth almost everyone would treat him as an enemy.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Philip French A challenge to McCarthyism as the cold war was hotting up, it has a striking score by Bernard Hermann, whom Wise met on Citizen Cane.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Phelim O'Neill There's an innovative score too, by the legendary Bernard Herrmann, which uses Hammond organs, electric guitar, cello and theremin, and is key to why this film, with its strong pacifist message, is such an enduring classic.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Derek Malcolm A long and increasingly tedious odyssey.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) Steve Rose Ten years on, it’s moving to hear Visconti, his lifelong friend and collaborator, talking about recording in secret what they all knew would be his last project.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Bulk (2025) Peter Bradshaw The film is massively self-indulgent, often funny, rescued from its not infrequent longueurs by its stars, those very likable performers Alexandra Maria Lara and Sam Riley, who are a real-life married couple.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Rental Family (2025) Peter Bradshaw There is something fundamentally wrong-headed about this smug, saccharine film.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Jesse Hassenger This sequel doubles down on its predecessor’s earnestness, to the point of alternating between grimly offing side characters at random and then getting all maudlin about its own pitilessness.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Derek Malcolm Nostalgia may be there, but Reiner avoids sentimentality and rose-coloured spectacles like the plague, securing performances from his young cast that scarcely seem like acting at all.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Peter Bradshaw This is an exciting, forthright, energised -- though very gruesome -- film in which there is real human jeopardy and conflict. Non-zombies are more cinematic.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) T.H. Evans Baillie Hollywood's beloved combination of hansom cabs, fog, and Victorian costumes verges at times perilously on boredom, but the macabre atmosphere is usually less meretriciously attained, and that sound actor Joseph Cotten triumphs...
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Knife (2024) Leslie Felperin With just a few subtle strokes, the screenplay underscores how everyone here is fudging the truth a bit, and its restraint is the film’s quiet strength.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
A Place in the Sun (1951) Guardian Staff George Stevens' film contains no perceptible social message and only a superficial concern with Dreiser's problem of guilt and innocence.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Escape (2025) Peter Bradshaw An intensely, sometimes even passionately acted piece of work, imagining the inner life of a man who was once Japan’s most wanted fugitive.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
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