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3/5
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The History of Sound
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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A pleasant enough film about the preservation and passing down of culture but one that seems unlikely to linger in the collective consciousness.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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4/5
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Park is a master of bad-taste antics and No Other Choice has bravura flourishes aplenty, including some impeccably executed death scenes.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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3/5
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Saipan
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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It’s not as insightful nor quite as funny as you might hope, but it tells both sides of the story and builds compellingly to that explosive conclusion.
Posted Jan 19, 2026
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4/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Emma Simmonds
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It’s astonishing and brave for such a mainstream franchise film to so fully embrace its more insane inclinations; DaCosta keeps things tonally on track as Alex Garland’s script boldly blends the blackest of comedy and bonkers references.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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4/5
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Zhao is a divinely subtle, emphatically visual filmmaker whose gift is for the deeply felt but unsaid. In her take on this love story, the most powerful moments are wordless.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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3/5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Elphaba and Glinda are the gloriously compelling centre of a sometimes chortle-worthy storm. If the romance is a bit bungled, then these two fine actresses ensure that their own love story is one for the ages.
Posted Nov 19, 2025
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5/5
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Aided by an eclectic and beautifully employed soundtrack, Ramsay gives us something that is by turns strange and haunting and bracingly real and confrontational.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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3/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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A tighter edit and a touch more subtlety would have brought this horror classic more impactfully to life, but Del Toro has delivered an audacious take on a well-worn tale with bags of visual drama.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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4/5
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The Mastermind
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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It’s a fun, fascinating and very distinct spin on the material, while the ironic, 70s-sounding title is the cherry on the cake.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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4/5
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Roofman
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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A thoroughly charming, if slightly insubstantial story of good intentions and disastrous decisions.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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4/5
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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The London Film Festival opening movie is a rollicking whodunnit and another slice of evidence that Josh O’Connor will soon be a household name.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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3/5
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Iron Ladies
(2025)
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Kevin Fullerton
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While dry in its delivery, Daniel Draper’s documentary about the Women Against Pit Closures group shines a light on a piece of history fading from popular consciousness
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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4/5
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I Swear
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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The script is compassionate, wise and witty and the performances are exceptional.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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5/5
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Both explosively emotional and utterly chilling, this is phenomenal, food-for-thought filmmaking and what the expression edge-of-your-seat was made for.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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3/5
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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The Smashing Machine is idiosyncratic and eye-catching but fails to match the power of its formidable protagonist.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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5/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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It’s grand, gritty and epically long but, most of all, it’s outrageously, nay obscenely funny. Cinema really doesn’t get much more entertaining.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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3/5
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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There’s a theatricality to the dialogue and the film’s artificiality acts as a barrier to its emotion which, given how much it wants you to buy into it, can feel frustrating.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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2/5
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(2025)
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James Mottram
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The classic songs, like ‘Big Bottoms’, sound as good as ever, but with no new music and nods to old gags like the Stonehenge stage set, this just feels like an ageing rock band cashing in.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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4/5
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Crushed
(2025)
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Kevin Fullerton
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Rumley (a director who has excelled at exploring the more extreme end of human nature) proves a deft hand with this difficult, morally fraught material, approaching his story with a matter-of-factness that sidesteps any dangers of sensationalism.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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3/5
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Bulk
(2025)
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Kevin Fullerton
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In its finest moments, Bulk captures the magic of talented people having a great time together and welcoming audiences along for the ride.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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4/5
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Islands
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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The whole enterprise benefits from bags of laid-back charm, a wonderful fit for a misguided yet inherently affable hero, who just cannot resist getting sucked into trouble.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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4/5
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Deaf
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Deaf takes an intimate, incisive look at the all-too common challenges of new parenthood, while presenting circumstances that are fascinatingly specific. Affecting and enlightening, it’s a powerful piece of cinema.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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5/5
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Young Mothers
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Outside of soap operas, teenage mothers aren’t granted much screen time, but with Young Mothers, the Dardennes take us beyond the hand-wringing headlines for a compassionate, really quite remarkable portrait of the challenges these girls face.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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2/5
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The Thursday Murder Club
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Chris Columbus has adapted the first of the four bestselling books in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series into a film, and it’s a frustrating affair that would have played out better as a mini-series.
Posted Sep 01, 2025
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4/5
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Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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...this nimble, incisive and questioning documentary does a far more accurate job of articulating how Irvine Welsh deals with reality, finding fresh routes to chase oblivion, still under the chemical cosh.
Posted Aug 26, 2025
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2/5
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Eddington
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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It has its moments, and there’s a smattering of success in the satire. It all gets highly hysterical in the film’s final throes but by then you may be long past caring.
Posted Aug 26, 2025
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3/5
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Dead Lover
(2025)
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Eddie Harrison
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Dead Lover uses deliberately retro visual stylings, aggressive strobe lighting and dollar-store puppetry to create a seedy love affair that’s willing to delve into body horror and outright necrophilia.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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3/5
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Hysteria
(2025)
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Isy Santini
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Hysteria recognises that the immigrant experience is not one-size-fits-all, nor does Islamophobia impact everyone in the same way. That’s what makes this so engaging despite the lack of genuine suspense.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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3/5
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Sorry, Baby
(2025)
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Katherine McLaughlin
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This is deeply intuitive and witty filmmaking, with a slow-burn intensity that perfectly matches the soundtrack provided by Lucy Dacus.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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3/5
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Materialists
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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The film can be effervescently entertaining and its interrogatory nature is to be applauded. Frequently provocative and pretty funny, it’s a welcome injection of intelligence in a genre which has for too long been fixated on formula.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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3/5
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Zodiac Killer Project
(2025)
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James Mottram
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Shackleton examines our thirst for grisly murders, and, if nothing else, it’ll pique your interest in the unsolved Zodiac case.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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3/5
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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This well-judged effort feels more solid than spectacular. However, given what came before, that’s more than good enough.
Posted Jul 28, 2025
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5/5
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Dying
(2024)
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Emma Simmonds
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Don’t let the epic runtime put you off, this is a film that justifies every second.
Posted Jul 28, 2025
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4/5
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Friendship
(2024)
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Emma Simmonds
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The comedy might prove too out-there and uncomfortable for a commercial crowd, but this sharp and thrillingly strange satire of suburbia leaves a lingering impression. DeYoung is one to watch, if you can bear to look.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3/5
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Superman
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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On this evidence, the franchise would seem to be in super safe hands.
Posted Jul 15, 2025
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4/5
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Marking a shift away from the fun but overstuffed Dominion, with its fairly straightforward hunt-those-dinosaurs-down narrative Rebirth takes things back to basics, delivering exciting action, superior beasts, frights that are full-throttle.
Posted Jul 04, 2025
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4/5
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The Shrouds
(2024)
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Emma Simmonds
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The film’s interrogatory nature is to be applauded; this is evidently Cronenberg getting to grips with loss using the body-horror tools at his disposal. How far and how bizarre he’s willing to go is impressive.
Posted Jul 04, 2025
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3/5
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Elio
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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While it’s lovely and cuddly, and kids should be entertained, the film’s slight lack of sophistication may leave adults less satisfied.
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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4/5
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Boasting a budget of nearly ten times that of the original, 28 Years Later is a very polished production, driven by a vigorous Young Fathers-led soundtrack.
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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3/5
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Dangerous Animals
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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The cliché-heavy script is nothing to shout about but the actors give it their all and this largely successful mash-up of Jaws and Wolf Creek is strikingly shot in places while also challenging conventional movie wisdom of sharks as the ‘bad guys’.
Posted Jun 09, 2025
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4/5
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Falling Into Place
(2023)
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Emma Simmonds
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A few understandable contrivances aside, Falling Into Place feels refreshingly authentic as it presents two flawed and flailing characters who need to figure things out and fix themselves, before they can successfully come together.
Posted Jun 03, 2025
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4/5
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Bit by bit, the quirkiness makes way for something more in a beautiful exploration of what music means to us.
Posted Jun 03, 2025
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3/5
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Along Came Love
(2023)
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Emma Simmonds
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Along Came Love feels like a less distinctive offering than Quillévéré’s previous films. Still, it’s classy, well-acted and engaging throughout.
Posted May 23, 2025
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4/5
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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With its awe-inspiring attention to detail, deadpan delivery and abundant absurdity, The Phoenician Scheme is unmistakably the work of Wes Anderson. It instantly improves on his previous feature, the underwhelming Asteroid City.
Posted May 23, 2025
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3/5
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Hallow Road
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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Pike and Rhys are brilliant as the panicking parents and Anvari takes us on a nail-biting journey through their pain.
Posted May 14, 2025
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4/5
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The Surfer
(2024)
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Emma Simmonds
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The Surfer fits Cage like a glove. It’s another one to add to his list of must-see, maniacal performances, illustrating his incomparable commitment to the craft.
Posted May 09, 2025
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3/5
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Parthenope
(2024)
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Emma Simmonds
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There’s something a little tiring about how in thrall Parthenope is to youthful beauty, yet Sorrentino really understands cinema and his flair for audacious imagery and love of Fellini-like eccentricity ensures it is rarely without charm.
Posted May 05, 2025
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4/5
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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The casting is the film’s greatest strength. The ever-excellent Pugh is a real get as its leading lady, Harbour is hilarious, Stan is coming off the back of an Oscar-nomination for The Apprentice, and Louis-Dreyfus makes for an unapologetic troublemaker.
Posted May 02, 2025
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4/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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Emma Simmonds
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The film’s atmosphere and actors are extremely seductive, even if its ideas don’t always feel fully formed.
Posted Apr 23, 2025
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4/5
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Sister Midnight
(2024)
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Emma Simmonds
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Full of vibrant visuals and furiously feminist energy, this is a wonderfully entertaining, stereotype-confounding and consistently surprising film that’s as rule-breaking as its protagonist.
Posted Mar 14, 2025
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