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3/5
Saipan (2025) Tom Shone The film is decent enough but lacks a compelling raison d’être.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Tom Shone Foy pulls through in every sense. She gives a remarkable performance — unshowy, precise and powerful.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Rip (2026) Tom Shone The Rip is at its best as the noose of paranoia tightens around the house, suspicions fly, and Damon and Affleck take turns to accuse each other.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Tom Shone Fiennes is pretty much the sole reason you may want to see this thinly clever, unpleasant film.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
A Place in the Sun (1951) Dilys Powell It seems odd to apply the word smooth to a story by Dreiser; but here the huge pounding movement of his book has been turned to fluency and elegance.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Tom Shone In 20 years’ time Song Sung Blue will probably be a camp classic playing as part of a double-bill with The Rocky Horror Picture Show, or Showgirls. But to qualify for “so bad it’s good”, first you have to be bad … very bad.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Tom Shone Trier has plenty of both up his sleeve, combining the satisfactions of arthouse film-making with the emotional wallop of great melodrama.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Death Race 2000 (1975) Dilys Powell Death Race 2000 isn't boring... but the style has a mixture of irony and flatness which as it were detaches the spectator.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Tom Shone It’s all so clever that half an hour after the film is over you won’t remember a stitch of it. What stays with you is O’Connor taking time out from a bit of sleuthing to take confession from a member of his parish.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Goodbye June (2025) Tom Shone The screenplay has an extraordinary ability to unlock emotion with the most mundane of events.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Tom Shone What unfolds is a black comedy of sorts.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Tom Shone Jay Kelly ploughs a more mellow groove than we’ve come to expect from this caustic writer-director.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Blue Moon (2025) Tom Shone If Blue Moon feels destined to be seen by a fraction of the already small percentage of the population who enjoyed those films, Hawke’s scenes with Scott and Qualley nevertheless stand out.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Christy (2025) Tom Shone Sweeney is extraordinary — her tenacity, like Martin’s, is starting to pay off.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Train Dreams (2025) Tom Shone It casts an undeniable spell.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Tom Shone Erivo’s vulnerability is the real show-stopper.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Nuremberg (2025) Tom Shone For all its window dressing as a clinical assessment, the psychological insights offered up — Kelley finds Goering “sympathetic”, “imaginative” and a “narcissist” — are not worth the napkin on which they were jotted.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
The Running Man (2025) Jonathan Dean If this satirises anything, it is how lazy Hollywood has become; when even its prescience is half a century old.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Choral (2025) Tom Shone Alan Bennett’s script spends too much time pursuing the romantic subplots of his teenage choristers.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Die My Love (2025) Tom Shone Pattinson is good in this film, but Lawrence is better: sometimes he seems frankly slack-jawed at just how uninhibited his scene partner is managing to be.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Bugonia (2025) Susie Goldsbrough Unfortunately the film doesn’t find anywhere particularly interesting to go from its set-up, or to add to its observation that class and corporate greed have created gross unfairness.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
After the Hunt (2025) Tom Shone The plot feels almost deliberately muddled.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Frankenstein (2025) Tom Shone Once Jacob Elordi takes the stage as the monster — sorry, the creature — everything falls into place.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Tom Shone Chilling, measured, at times almost unbearably tense.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Tom Shone The true naked aggression of Raging Bull seems beyond the reach of Johnson, or of this rather sweet-natured film. Instead it’s Gently Engaging Bull.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Tom Shone Hefty yet cantering, deliriously funny in places, as audacious as a moonshot — One Battle After Another is probably Anderson’s best film.
Posted Sep 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Tom Shone There’s so much to make your toes curl that the film could well become a cringe classic. Everything about it is so gloriously and deliberately fake.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Steve (2025) Tom Shone The chaos of the day is a little too infectious, but Murphy gives a beautifully raw, frazzled performance, his opaque blues eyes never far from panic.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Tom Shone It’s such a pleasure to be back in the company of Tufnel, Smalls and St Hubbins — older, whiter of whisker but as gormless as ever — that it may be a while before the thinness of the material dawns on you.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Long Walk (2025) Tom Shone It’s basically The Hunger Games meets Squid Game with a lot of King’s woolly dime-store philosophising thrown in, but the film is no Shawshank — it’s King dressed up as George Orwell for Halloween.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Honey Don't! (2025) Tom Shone Coen has gone back to his happy place but this time he’s not taken the audience with him.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Cut (2024) Tom Shone So far, so familiar: a boxer down on his luck is given one more shot at the title. Pass the bucket and sponge, please. But actually this is an original take. Where Willis’s film scores points is the relentlessness of its focus on the training...
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Caught Stealing (2025) Tom Shone The director Darren Aronofsky delivers a raucous, chaotic power chord worthy of Joe Strummer in Caught Stealing.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Frankenstein (2025) Kevin Maher The performances are all camp and no soul, the ideas barely there and the centrepiece creature consistently underwhelming.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sorry, Baby (2025) Tom Shone There’s no mistaking this film for any other, or Victor’s voice — tart, oblique, sardonic — for anyone else’s. There’s not a fake note in the movie.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Materialists (2025) Tom Shone This is the film Fifty Shades of Grey wanted so desperately to be.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Kingdom (2024) Tom Shone What follows is not a thriller but a coming-of-age drama, full of the dusty sights and sounds of a Corsican summer — The Sopranos as shot by Eric Rohmer, with the sound of cicadas outweighing the gun shots.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Freakier Friday (2025) Tom Shone The best reason to see the film, in fact, is Curtis... She’s like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? rolled into one.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Savages (2024) Tom Shone The film could have done with a little more action and adventure to balance the anti-corporate messaging but he brings his handcrafted jungle to teeming, tactile life.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Naked Gun (2025) Tom Shone The best scene actually belongs to Anderson.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Friendship (2024) Tom Shone ... As a vehicle for Robinson’s solipsistic monomaniac, it’s a trip.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Superman (2025) Tom Shone At just over two hours Superman has all the zippy action you want — the flying sequences come with Top Gun-style G-force buffeting and sonic booms — as well as the humour and heart that will get people coming back for more.
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Shrouds (2024) Tom Shone There are two types of Cronenberg movie: the ones featuring exploding heads and the ones that are just talking heads. This is decidedly the latter...
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Tom Shone Johansson is not the most believable mercenary you’ve ever seen — she waves armaments around as if they were plastic — but she makes up for it with sheer gumption.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Elio (2025) Tom Shone The film gives kids a framework to understand the world’s strong men but suffers from the Pixar blight of too many bright ideas, an excess of benevolence and a story that doesn’t know which lane to pick.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
28 Years Later (2025) Tom Shone Boyle returns to screens this week with 28 Years Later, an unusually thoughtful sequel to his 2002 classic 28 Days Later, which shows much has changed since the zombie apocalypse — sorry, Rage Virus — was first loosed on the world.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Tornado (2025) Tom Shone ... Once the revenge plot is strung taut, the arrow finds its target.
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Echo Valley (2025) Tom Shone With its juicy narrative hook, strong writing and flinthead-sharp performances, it is exactly the kind of film you want to curl up with at home.
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Ballerina (2025) Tom Shone There are a few touches of dark wit, not least a pair of ice skates thrown through the air like a bolas, and a transfixingly elegant climactic fight between two flame-throwers that would make a great ballet.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Salt Path (2024) Tom Shone The film’s soupy, ambient score tries a little too hard for transcendence and there are one too many inspirational strangers imparting pearls of wisdom but the Winns’ story goes beyond fridge magnet slogans.
Posted Jun 04, 2025  Edit critic review
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