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The Wee Review

The Wee Review is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): James Hanton, Kevin Wight.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3
Saipan (2025) Kevin Wight A witty script turns a butting of egos into a state of the nation psychodrama
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3
The History of Sound (2025) Kevin Wight Director Oliver Hermanus eschews explosive passion in favour of fastidious, wistful melancholy. It may be tasteful to a fault, but does arrive belatedly at a powerful conclusion.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Kevin Wight Hugely enjoyable sequel is a little disjointed, but goes heavy on the weird in inventive new ways
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Kevin Wight Powerful docufiction about a very recent atrocity unavoidably raises ethical concerns
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3
Hamnet (2025) Kevin Wight Tragedy of Shakespeare’s son effectively hits the heartstrings but lacks a little restraint
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3
Sirāt (2025) Kevin Wight Shocking and confrontational road movie is one to experience on the big screen
Posted Nov 27, 2025  Edit critic review
2
La venue de l'avenir (2025) Kevin Wight Clumsy approach to dual timeline undercuts light, undemanding drama about love and art across 130 years
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3
The Musicians (2025) Kevin Wight Pleasantly diverting comedy-drama with a musical soul that achieves moments of transcendence
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Kevin Wight Linklater’s homage to the French New Wave is a joyous affair, even though it surrenders to the myth of its subject
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3
Stationed at Home (2025) Kevin Wight Impressive and visually gorgeous ensemble piece achieves much on a shoestring
Posted Nov 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4
A Magnificent Life (2025) Kevin Wight Animated biopic of Marcel Pagnol may be standard fare beneath its surface, but what a gorgeous surface.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4
The Portuguese House (2025) Kevin Wight Like the home that gives the film its title, <i>The Portuguese House</i> has an elegant, lived-in atmosphere. It has its revelations and its secrets, but it feels like the script coaxes them out, as if earning its own trust.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2
The Draft! (2023) Kevin Wight </i>The Draft!</i> stops aiming for any actual scares and contents itself with throwing as many genre nods at the wall as it can, moving onto the next without waiting to see if any stick.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2
Through Rocks and Clouds (2024) Kevin Wight Instantly charming, but exiles its central conflict so far into the background that it never gains any dramatic momentum. What’s left feels like a character study of a boy who is still too young for his character to have fully developed.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4
El 47 (2024) Kevin Wight A socially-conscious and enlightening true story of peaceful revolutionary zeal causing real change. Anchored by an incredibly charismatic leading performance by Eduard Fernández, it’s easy to see why it’s captured the heart of its home audiences.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
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La Buena Letra (2025) Kevin Wight The drama in The Good Manners occurs in glances and furrowed brows, lurking between the lines. It’s one of those instances where a little bit of melodrama wouldn’t have gone amiss.
Posted Oct 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4
Queens (Reinas) (2024) Kevin Wight Deftly written and beautifully performed, <i>Queens</i> is a gem of a family drama that doesn’t come with easy resolution and skilfully navigates varying changes in tone with wit, elegance, and an authentic sense of history.
Posted Oct 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2
The Drowned (2025) Kevin Wight If Samuel Clemens can bring more storytelling drive – and a more ruthless approach to scriptwriting – to some undeniable technical flair, his next project could be a winner. As a debut however, <i>The Drowned</i> frustrates more than it engages.
Posted Oct 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4
Christy (2025) Kevin Wight Gritty and impassioned coming-of-age drama with a loveable sense of community
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3
If Only I Could Hibernate (2023) Kevin Wight A handsome and sincere study of a burdened young man, although its protagonist can be unnecessarily infuriating.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4
Swede Caroline (2022) Kevin Wight Stuffed with familiar comic talent, it’s a hilarious quotefest, but also a surprisingly satisfying lowkey mystery.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
1
Butterfly Tale (2023) Kevin Wight A simple story about both the power of cooperation and the discovery of one’s own unique talents, but its perfunctory plotting and horribly cheap visuals overpower its inclusive message.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4
Jericho Ridge (2022) Kevin Wight Will Gilbey‘s directorial debut doesn’t stray far from John Carpenter’s template of a contemporised siege western, but hits every beat of this taut chamber piece with economic precision.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4
That They May Face the Rising Sun (2023) Kevin Wight A slow steeping in the rhythms and rituals of a community in the rural Ireland of the 1980s, what Collins’ adaptation of John McGahern‘s final novel lacks in incident it more than makes up for in rich character and a gruff, earthy compassion.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3
Land of Bad (2024) Kevin Wight Gung ho goodness tempered with the hint of a self-satiric edge, it’s a bit of a rough diamond.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3
Infested (2023) Kevin Wight Sébastien Vanicek‘s debut is a little oddly paced, but has a class-conscious core and a pleasantly anarchist ACAB streak.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
1
Prey (2024) Kevin Wight There’s always something mildly repulsive about narratives that credit God for a protagonist’s survival but apportion no blame to Him for putting them into that scrape in the first instance, and it’s even worse when the film itself is a stinker.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4
Nezouh (2022) Kevin Wight With a dynamism that almost bulges the walls that confine our heroine, Nezouh negates overt carnage in favour of a subjective, magical-realist point of view.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3
Tiger Stripes (2023) Kevin Wight In a narrative that sees a collision between tradition and modernity, repression and expression, and childhood and adolescence, it also struggles itself between highbrow and B-movie tendencies.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4
Hoard  (2023) Kevin Wight It’s looks like a standard British social drama, but could well appeal to genre fans. There’s an edge of both body horror, and the kind of transgressive sexual energy that powers something like Cronenberg’s Crash, or Steven Shainberg‘s Secretary.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3
IF (2024) Kevin Wight It may be slightly lacking in terms of laughter, aiming for the heartstrings instead, but given the dearth of quality family entertainment recently, <i>IF</i> is a welcome tonic.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
2
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever (2023) Kevin Wight A barreling narrative that never stops to breathe lest the audience take a moment to think for a moment and instantly unravel the mystery.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
2
5lbs of Pressure (2024) Kevin Wight A decent cast make a fist of attempted redemption, elevating the material through sheer will, but the dirt and the gun oil under its fingernails can’t disguise the simple cautionary melodrama at its centre.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
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The Garfield Movie (2024) Kevin Wight Garfield as a character lives in a perpetual present defined by his most urgent needs: food, sleep, the tormenting of Odie. Suddenly giving him a backstory is antithetical to the notion of the character itself.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4
In Flames (2023) Kevin Wight The themes of <i>In Flames</i> are stark and blunt, the execution anything but. It’s a slippery and hallucinatory experience that never lets its ghostly trappings overpower the very real dangers it depicts.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
2
Sting (2024) Kevin Wight There are some solid old-school B-movie thrills to be had, but <i>Sting</i> is less successful in weaving a family drama into its web.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3
The Beast (2023) Kevin Wight Although a cerebral film, it’s arguably Bonello’s most accessible. The compartmentalised structure makes the runtime more than palatable, and the repeated symbols and motifs he uses throughout are clear in their utility
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3
Four Little Adults (2023) Kevin Wight Potentially tricky material handled with a light touch and a correspondingly breezy tone, yet even though it is consistently entertaining, it feels like it doesn’t peer too deeply below its surface and shies away from its trickier implications.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4
Hundreds of Beavers (2022) Kevin Wight Every moment is lovingly crafted, every joke is precise. Rarely since the early days of cinema worshipped by Cheslik and Tews has such love, care, and attention gone into such preposterous buffoonery.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3
To Kill a Wolf (2024) Kevin Wight A rich and atmospheric drama that is all the more impressive for its relative restraint. It’s confident in its storytelling and in the ability of its actors to remain compelling even as the narrative keeps its revelations close to its chest.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3
And Mrs (2024) Kevin Wight The barreling tonal shifts hit some sense of truth about grief, with all of its wild swings... has more than enough talent behind it – and a tangy hint of weirdness – to see it through.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
2
Starve Acre (2023) Kevin Wight Not only is <i>Starve Acre</i> awash in recognisable tropes of the subgenre, it also wallows in the themes of grief and loss that seem to be ubiquitous and explicit in modern horror.
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
1
The Stolen Valley (2022) Kevin Wight Modern western with a fine message but a bungled execution
Posted Jun 02, 2024  Edit critic review
2
On Fire (2023) Kevin Wight Low-budget eco-thriller lacks the necessary tension and excitement
Posted Jun 02, 2024  Edit critic review
2
Bleeding Love (2023) Kevin Wight Road movie with stunt casting that gets under its own wheels
Posted Jun 02, 2024  Edit critic review
3
Civil War (2024) Kevin Wight Immaculately staged and harrowingly immersive action masks a certain moral hollowness in this alternate-reality dystopia
Posted Jun 02, 2024  Edit critic review
4
Monkey Man (2024) Kevin Wight Dev Patel's Mumbai martial arts mayhem is a superbly frenetic and ferocious action debut
Posted Jun 02, 2024  Edit critic review
4
Concrete Utopia (2023) Kevin Wight Eom's supple film shows the best and worst of human nature, often displayed by the same people
Posted Jun 02, 2024  Edit critic review
2
The Sweet East (2023) Kevin Wight Overly arch and empty road trip provocation
Posted Jun 02, 2024  Edit critic review
3
Restore Point (2023) Kevin Wight Sci-fi detective story with worldbuilding more impressive than its narrative ambition
Posted Jun 02, 2024  Edit critic review
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