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Caution Spoilers is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Sarah Cartland.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4.5/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Sarah Cartland O’Connell offers up a brilliantly horrifying performance of an opportunistic sadist but also a fervent believer, while hinting that maybe underneath the grinning cruelty is the kernel of the terrified child who never grew up.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4
The Housemaid (2025) Sarah Cartland Fellow Generation Xers might think they’ve been transported back to the heady movie days of the late ’80s and ’90s; Paul Feig’s long, hot thriller is old-fashioned, over-the-top, sexy and screamingly obvious, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Posted Jan 18, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rope (1948) Sarah Cartland An intense and claustrophobic watch. Stewart is both an ambivalent presence and all too human as the prep school teacher of two murderers.
Posted Oct 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Naked Gun (2025) Sarah Cartland An absolute hoot, perfectly treading that fine line between pure genius and stunning stupidity.
Posted Oct 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Roses (2025) Sarah Cartland Colman and Cumberbatch look to be having a ball though they don't convince as a married couple. Still because of the subject matter we'll never know if they lack chemistry or they’re simply really good at pretending to have been married for 15 years.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Sarah Cartland I can attest that you don’t need to have seen any of the show’s 52 episodes to (a) work out who’s who and (b) thoroughly enjoy this whole ridiculous shebang. You could probably do it on the memes alone.
Posted Sep 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Sarah Cartland Take the best Jurassic Park film (yes I mean no 3), add some Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle seasoning, a sprinkling of Jaws and a good slosh of Alien Resurrection, and what you get is Gareth Edwards’ glorious summer romp.
Posted Jul 20, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
28 Years Later (2025) Sarah Cartland A beautiful and sometimes nerve-shredding film about Britain, who we are and how we see ourselves. Even the zombies have developed a class system.
Posted Jul 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Fire of Love (2022) Sarah Cartland The abundance of the Kraffts' own extraordinary film footage does mean this feels like a documentary made very much on their terms, even though they’ve been dead for over 30 years.
Posted Mar 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
ClearMind (2024) Sarah Cartland An intriguing, darkly funny thriller, this snappy ensemble indie asks how we can move on from tragedy, and also why are we so scared of women who have every right to be sad.
Posted Mar 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) Sarah Cartland Relatable though Zellweger still is as Bridget, the star of the show is Hugh Grant, who is, as always nowadays, hilarious. He has already out-acted two British icons – Bridget and Paddington – so just make him the next Bond villain and have done with it.
Posted Mar 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Alien: Romulus (2024) Sarah Cartland Seven films into this franchise, Alien: Romulus manages to be both terrifying and comforting; the audience revisiting their haunted childhood home, relieved to be tucked up in their old bed even if it does levitate.
Posted Mar 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Better Man (2024) Sarah Cartland If you’re worried Robbie Williams as a chimp will be distracting, it soon seems not so much off-the-wall as necessary. His story is brutal but it’s also common; how else to get people’s attention?
Posted Feb 10, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Sarah Cartland Doing for bunnies what Benchley and Spielberg did for Great Whites, Holy Grail is still a hoot - a meandering delight that also firmly skewers the genial pointlessness of quests and kingship, medieval myth-making, and much more.
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Madame Web (2024) Sarah Cartland Not great but not the worst film ever made, and I didn’t even have to award a consolation star for the cat.
Posted Feb 25, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Dagr (2024) Sarah Cartland Blair Witch meets AbFab as found footage collides with fashion darlings giving overpriced clothes the Jean-Luc Goddard treatment. Moritz and Duckles are terrific as a pair of supremely confident, if breathtakingly naive, ethical YouTubers.
Posted Feb 10, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
65 (2023) Sarah Cartland It was the worst of times, it was the end of times. For the characters anyway. Not as bad I had heard, 65 is improved by the performances and also the constant pummelling that pre-historic Earth doles out to poor old Mills.
Posted Jan 21, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Saltburn (2023) Sarah Cartland Emerald Fennell's definition of subtlety is bashing us over the head with a small Le Creuset frying pan rather than one of their massive casserole pots.
Posted Jan 19, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
The Boys in the Boat (2023) Sarah Cartland While Clooney’s Oscar-eyeing earnestness leaves much of the film plodding, it is spectacularly saved by the race scenes, which are both riveting and exhilarating.
Posted Jan 13, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
A Haunting in Venice (2023) Sarah Cartland Enjoyably melodramatic and nicely unnerving, though the tendency to shoot from above and at odd angles becomes headache-inducing, especially when one is trying to work out whodunnit (or indeed woohoodunnit). Camille Cottin and Emma Laird are stand-outs.
Posted Jan 01, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Sarah Cartland Overlong if enjoyably bonkers, there's also an undercurrent of chaos, with bits of key turning up everywhere; at times it felt like there were enough for everyone to have a spare set. 
Posted Oct 27, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
Meg 2: The Trench (2023) Sarah Cartland There's an enjoyable disdain for empathy as extras get munched, though mostly it's just not that exciting, and B movie tropes that should evoke knowing enjoyment seem simply dull. The green-washing makes it worthy, if not see-worthy.
Posted Oct 26, 2023  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Bounty Hunter (2010) Sarah Cartland Overlong, trope-filled and derivative, there’s still an endearing charm to Milo’s puppyish dimwittery — and it boasts a proper movie villain, who with his chiselled cheekbones and air of real menace looks like an evil Max Headroom (ask your A.I. nan)
Posted Jun 03, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
One True Loves (2023) Sarah Cartland A slight, slushy yet just-endearing-enough romcom. It does look like an old-fashioned TV movie though, and the flashback to the world’s windiest wedding reception, everyone trying to ignore the waving gazebo, doesn’t help.
Posted Apr 08, 2023  Edit critic review
4.5/5
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Sarah Cartland Deadly serious yet madly entertaining, John Wick Chapter 4 offers up a stream of astonishing, sometimes numbing battles broken up by aphorisms. Its callbacks to the first film reveal a man who can never escape his past or his path.
Posted Mar 26, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Follow the Dead (2020) Sarah Cartland A movie about Millennials reviewed by a Gen Xer. What could go wrong! Luckily this Irish zomcom is funny, chilling, and thoughtful about how a safe space can become a prison, as a family of slackers faces two threats — only one of which is already dead.
Posted Mar 22, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Plane (2023) Sarah Cartland Solid and enjoyable filmmaking that knows its limits. No overflowing passenger lists, no shoehorned subplots, it does exactly what it says on the tin, and then some. Truly, "redemption can be found in the most unusual places."
Posted Mar 18, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Precognition (2018) Sarah Cartland Technology itself is morally neutral. But Tedder has done a good job showing us how easily it can be twisted, and how a combination of carrot and stick can make us give up our most basic freedoms.
Posted Jan 30, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
See How They Run (2022) Sarah Cartland Frenetic, amiable and supremely well-paced; and as a whodunnit it’s certainly more AgFab than whocares.
Posted Oct 09, 2022  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot (2020) Sarah Cartland For a stripped-back Arthur, a character study of a king who has lost faith in himself and his role, there’s an awful lot thrown in here, without the time, budget or real insight to do it all justice.
Posted Oct 05, 2022  Edit critic review
2/5
Reed's Point (2022) Sarah Cartland Clunky and awkward, with risible dialogue and a damp squib ending; though director Dale Fabrigar does offer us an impressive monster, and Anthony Jensen has fun as local guide Hank.
Posted Oct 05, 2022  Edit critic review
2/5
Maneater (2022) Sarah Cartland Not a good film — with limited, repetitive shark footage and often lazy writing — though there’s a good turn from Trace Adkins as hoary old sea dog Harlan.
Posted Sep 22, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
When the Screaming Starts (2021) Sarah Cartland Very funny, very British and drowning in fake blood. And unlike a murderous cult breaking into your house while you’re having a dinner party, it never outstays its welcome.
Posted Sep 21, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
The Reef: Stalked (2022) Sarah Cartland Sharks make good allegories, and unlike zombies they work best with only one, which is cheaper. The Reef Stalked is a welcome entrant in this genre - a scary, solidly entertaining shark drama as much about grief and guilt as about the toothy terror.
Posted Aug 01, 2022  Edit critic review
2/5
Persuasion (2022) Sarah Cartland There are some witty flashes and Cosmo Jarvis is excellent, a rumbling volcano of just held in check emotion. But this is an uneven disappointment, with Anne too frequently coming across as a Regency Bridget Jones.
Posted Jul 26, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
Gatlopp (2022) Sarah Cartland Surely a metaphor for Monopoly, which is the definition of hell and goes on for an eternity, GATLOPP is enjoyably believable, thanks to nuanced, sharply timed performances from all four actors. Emmy Raver-Lampman and Jon Bass are particularly impressive.
Posted Jul 01, 2022  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Jurassic World Dominion (2022) Sarah Cartland There are some stunning visuals and the new dinosaurs are terrific, especially the one that looks like an angry chicken; though they often seem like extras in an overlong potboiler thriller.
Posted Jun 22, 2022  Edit critic review
5/5
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Sarah Cartland Old relics assemble! A superbly thrilling, witty and crowd-pleasing modern blockbuster, well worth the 36-year wait.
Posted May 31, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
Senior Year (2022) Sarah Cartland Yes it's derivative and heavily signposted but it's also exuberant and witty, a reminder to teenagers to let their hair down and to their parents not to assume that (and I’m showing my age here) modern life is rubbish.
Posted May 24, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) Sarah Cartland Overstuffed with plot and not as witty as the first film, though a late surge gives it the oomph to make it through an enjoyable final third. Thanks to Carrey, Robotnik remains a perfect villain for children: extremely powerful and eternally bumptious.
Posted May 20, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Operation Mincemeat (2021) Sarah Cartland Not the "Colin Firth looking stoic in a Royal Navy-issue jumper" outing I was expecting - instead I discovered a surprisingly funny, consistently gripping and often moving film about war's imperfect stalwarts, working in the shadows.
Posted Apr 17, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Let the Wrong One In (2021) Sarah Cartland Grossly funny, peppered with great one-liners, this is also a touching paean to family and fake blood, which drenches proceedings in frankly extraordinary quantities. There's more gushing here than from British luvvies at the BAFTAs.
Posted Apr 07, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Death on the Nile (2022) Sarah Cartland Gorgeous, great fun and brutally funny in a way, that everyone there to celebrate Linnet's marriage also has reason to greatly dislike her. (To be fair some of the best weddings are like that.)
Posted Apr 03, 2022  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Deep Water (2022) Sarah Cartland It does, finally, get under the skin, if you can make it through the tepid sex and stretches of tedium. Melinda and Vics transgressiveness may not be explained, or believable, but it eventually becomes oddly compelling.
Posted Mar 21, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
Moonfall (2022) Sarah Cartland An enjoyable, old-fashioned blockbuster (yes, there is a pet) let down by an absence of humour (which might have lightened its rather lumpen earnestness).
Posted Feb 06, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Silent Night (2021) Sarah Cartland Shorter than many family Christmas dinners that do actually feel like the end of the world, Silent Night bounces along until almost the end; beautiful, bitterly funny and bizarrely realistic.
Posted Dec 30, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Last Train to Christmas (2021) Sarah Cartland An overlong but moving tale. It says something for the writing and performances that the most jarring element of this story is how many spare seats there are in a British Rail train at Christmas.
Posted Dec 20, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
A Castle for Christmas (2021) Sarah Cartland Mostly does what it says on the (Quality Street) tin, though its premise of two older, slightly broken people falling in love means welcome spikiness to offset the sugar.
Posted Dec 01, 2021  Edit critic review
2/5
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021) Sarah Cartland Neither great nor terrible. Despite the slapstick violence it lacks the darkness of a children's classic - everyone is just too nice, even the estate agent (who is actually the best thing in this).
Posted Nov 14, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Yield to the Night (1956) Sarah Cartland A stunning film, its oppressive sadness feeling like a physical weight by the time we reach those final devastating yet inevitable scenes. Dors and Mitchell are superb.
Posted Nov 11, 2021  Edit critic review
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