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3/5
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H Is for Hawk
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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H is for Hawk wants desperately to make you feel the raw blankness of grief and the healing power of nature, but in the end feels more like a kids’ wildlife documentary: beautiful but bloodless.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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3/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Francesca Steele
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Last year’s film was preoccupied with national isolation and nostalgia; this one, barely a zombie film at all really, is interested in just what makes us human, whether we’ve caught the Rage virus or not.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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5/5
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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While Paul Mescal's Shakespeare is delicate, Jessie Buckley gives a performance for the ages in this profoundly moving adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel.
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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3/5
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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All this is always anchored in a relationship that feels very real. It’s a film very much like a good karaoke night: there’s nothing hugely sophisticated about the experience, but it is absolutely jam-packed with joy.
Posted Dec 31, 2025
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3/5
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The Scarecrows' Wedding
(2025)
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Marianne Levy
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The animation is sumptuous, the actors are top notch, and when it all comes together – as a shooting star pierces the sky or rain patters down onto scorched earth – there are glimpses of true magic.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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5/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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Josh Safdie's new film about a wannabe table tennis champion in 1950s New York is a wild, unpredictable tragicomedy.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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5/5
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The Salt Path Scandal
(2025)
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Julia Raeside
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In the court of TV, this clear-sighted documentary finds the couple guilty of a lifetime of appalling behaviour, even if it doesn’t overtly state it. But the tears of the people who seem to credibly accuse them speak loudly and definitively.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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3/5
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Goodbye June
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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Winslet is a confident director and Anders has an eye for relationships.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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5/5
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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Noah Baumbach's new film shows Clooney as a famous actor struggling in midlife - it's a meta masterpiece.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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2/5
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Christy
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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This bland biopic about the boxer Christy Martin never rises beyond clichés.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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5/5
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Emily Bootle
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Daniel Craig's swaggering private detective Benoit Blanc returns in this church-based whodunnit satire, which blends Gothic camp with irresistible mystery.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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4/5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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While Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande remain a tour-de-force duo in this darker, more passionate sequel, it's Goldblum's Wizard who injects some much-needed levity.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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3/5
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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James Vanderbilt's new dramatised version of the historic Second World War trial has staggering material to work with, but still manages to feel rather staid.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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4/5
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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This oddball folk-horror brings a maximalist energy to its depiction of maternal rage.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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4/5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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It’s a return to form for the film-maker following last year’s limp Kinds of Kindness, a macabre and raucously mischievous comedy that forces us to ask whether we’re really all as rational as we assume.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3/5
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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As the Boss, Jeremy Allen White hits all the right beats without ever elevating the role to anything greater.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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4/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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In Frankenstein, he has created a powerfully entertaining, existential new version of an old story -- not exactly producing something totally unique, but enlivening the familiar tale with haunting performances and some truly striking images
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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1/5
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The Woman in Cabin 10
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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All we are left with instead is a lot of under-utilised talent saying meaningless things on a huge, ugly yacht.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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4/5
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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The story of the troubled MMA champion Mark Kerr is a classic redemptive arc - The Rock makes it raw and compelling.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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5/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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This funny, gripping tale of resistance and family, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, is one of the most absorbing films of the year.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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4/5
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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The band are back together as grizzled rockers 40 years later, and they’re still turning it up to 11.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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2/5
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Lightweight and forgettable.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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3/5
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Darren Aronofsky's scrappy crime movie feels a little on the nose, but is injected with plenty of life by its cast of loveable rogues.
Posted Aug 27, 2025
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4/5
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The Thursday Murder Club
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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Lacklustre and confused - it doesn't do justice to the books
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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4/5
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Eddington
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It remains one of the only films made thus far to capture the madness, anger, and confusion of 2020 – to show how the pandemic brought so many underlying issues, both personal and social, to the boil.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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2/5
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You Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment
(2025)
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Ed Power
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Robinson's pantomime villain schtick was out of step with this often distressing documentary.
Posted Aug 19, 2025
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4/5
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Materialists
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans star in Celine Song's latest love-triangle story that teaches us about the perils of perfectionism.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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4/5
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Freakier Friday
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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If you enjoyed the first one, you will find its sequel’s almost obsessive commitment to providing more of the same a comfortingly nostalgic joy.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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3/5
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Bring Her Back is a film that knows how to provoke, but not how to provide much insight.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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4/5
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Frankly, this is the first Marvel movie I’ve seen in recent years that feels it has genuine emotional stakes – simple, straightforward, family-oriented ones, though they are.
Posted Jul 23, 2025
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3/5
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
(2025)
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Marianne Levy
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Jaws @ 50 isn’t a bad documentary, just a frustrating one. It’s entertaining enough, but you might do better watching the original film instead.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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2/5
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Superman
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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David Corenswet is the best Superman since Christopher Reeve - but muddled plots and villain overload leave this reboot floundering.
Posted Jul 09, 2025
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2/5
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It may have eschewed the CGI slop of its forebears, but even for dinosaur lovers like me this convoluted sequel is absurd and unsatisfying.
Posted Jul 07, 2025
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4/5
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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F1 uses old-fashioned, engine-revving storytelling.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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3/5
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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With a grim realism and a resilient Britishness that recalls the most desperate days of the Second World War, it has grit, suspense, and heart, albeit with some tonal wobbles and plot twists that are sure to raise eyebrows.
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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4/5
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Lollipop
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Daisy-May Hudson’s tearjerking family drama is one of the best debut films in recent years.
Posted Jun 12, 2025
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5/5
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Ocean with David Attenborough
(2025)
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Rachael Sigee
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The documentarian takes aim at the greedy corporations causing overfishing in this angry yet hopeful film
Posted Jun 09, 2025
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4/5
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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It's unsubtle and at times nonsensical - but this spin-off of the beloved hitman franchise is a treat for action fans.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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3/5
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The Salt Path
(2024)
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Francesca Steele
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It’s a film that could do with a little more feeling overall – and more fury, too.
Posted May 30, 2025
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4/5
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It’s the father-daughter relationship that takes precedence in The Phoenician Scheme, and Anderson gives us a rather beautiful conclusion of simplicity and acceptance.
Posted May 19, 2025
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3/5
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The Uninvited
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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It may not be saying anything particularly new, but The Uninvited has some... fun at the expense of the superficial, youth-obsessed, often abusive edifice of the film industry – and that’s something we can all get on board with.
Posted May 09, 2025
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4/5
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The Friend
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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This melancholy comedy starring Naomi Watts, about a woman who inherits a Great Dane following a friend's suicide, is a heart-wrenching meditation on grief.
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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4/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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Michael B Jordan is arresting in this exhilarating, blood-soaked vampire flick, which combines the supernatural with the political.
Posted Apr 18, 2025
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2/5
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The Return
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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The twisty machinations are a bit too familiar, the pacing a tad too glacial before Odysseus’s revenge finally happens, the performances uniformly good but rather self-serious.
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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3/5
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It’s a bog-standard, eat-the-rich message. But it does at least give the otherwise ridiculous unicorn story something to hang its horn on.
Posted Apr 04, 2025
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2/5
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Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson
(2025)
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Ed Power
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By fixating on the legal aspects of the story, the music industry which continues to make millions off Jackson’s tainted legacy is left entirely off the hook.
Posted Apr 02, 2025
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3/5
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The End
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Even if the film can feel airless at times, with long, solid shots of the survivors’ banal everyday lives, it does have much to say on the foibles of mankind – and the way society may very feasibly backslide into, well, The End.
Posted Mar 31, 2025
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4/5
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Christina Newland
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It’s great fun to watch two actors of such calibre play these wicked games of mistrust and deception – it’s even more fun to see Soderbergh handle his story so deftly.
Posted Mar 14, 2025
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4/5
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Francesca Steele
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Mickey 17 is a highly entertaining absurdist ride that embraces nihilism right up until the moment it tenderly skewers it.
Posted Mar 10, 2025
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3/5
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The Last Showgirl
(2024)
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Christina Newland
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Without the narrative scaffolding or depth to surround her character, Coppola’s film can often feel like a message in search of a movie.
Posted Mar 03, 2025
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