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4/5
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Pose
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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There are a handful of longueurs in the movie, but mostly this is a director and a lead actor working together without restrictions.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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4/5
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H Is for Hawk
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Foy is exceptional throughout in a project that frequently requires her to share the frame with a beady-eyed, sharp-clawed killer and, crucially, to convey a combination of awestruck admiration and stultifying terror.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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4/5
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The Secret of Me
(2025)
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James Jackson
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There is so much to unpack from this film, not least the perspective it offered on the perennial debate of nature versus nurture.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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1/5
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Mercy
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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Pratt is fine, and blandly likeable in the manner of a not-especially-demanding labrador, but the prospect of his blameless heroism is always depressingly inevitable and the identity of the real villain is conspicuous from almost the first scene.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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The American President
(1995)
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Geoff Brown
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There is too much presidential pomp, too small a glimpse of the ordinary man within. Bening is charm personified as Sydney Wade; unfortunately, bright eyes, a winning smile, and a strong supporting cast can only take this soft, boring film so far.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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4/5
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The Rip
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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The ending gets a bit messy, with a large splodge of generic action. By then it hardly matters. The job is done. The perps are punished. The guns holstered. Hell yeah.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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1/5
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Yes, it’s just awful. Fake, puke-inducing emotional dishonesty of the most absurd kind. Nothing here makes sense.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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2/5
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Bulk
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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This is just sloppy, repetitive and dull.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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4/4
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(2001)
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Kevin Maher
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The Fellowship of the Ring is extraordinary but the weakest in the JRR Tolkien trilogy.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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Bite the Bullet
(1975)
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David Robinson
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The scenery is great; the story pushes on; only it would be nice to know where the film-makers thought it was actually going.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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4/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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Fiennes’s commitment is so total that it occasionally feels as if The Bone Temple is a riveting and vivacious one-man West End show.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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2/5
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Becoming Victoria Wood
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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This one-note profile leans heavily into anodyne archive interviews and platitudinous guff from celebrity buddies.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(2002)
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James Christopher
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What we don’t get is close and consistent tension. Like most trilogies, The Lord of the Rings sags in the middle. Jackson’s middle episode is a vast schematic piece of action with large damp patches of wooden acting.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3/5
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Giant
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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It doesn’t all work. The boxing scenes are undercooked and the ending is rushed and ineffective. But there’s a gripping sadness here that lingers.
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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4/5
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Labyrinth
(1986)
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Kevin Maher
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The boisterous incidental characters, including talking door knockers and dungeon walls and double-headed guards, are an unruly delight.
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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3/5
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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With Bader and Blyth on quietly charismatic form throughout, [Brett Haley] made a film that is eminently slick, consistently palatable and instantly forgettable. The perfect Netflix product.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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5/5
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Blue Velvet
(1986)
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Kevin Maher
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The performances from Hopper and Rossellini are extraordinary.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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3/5
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The Scarecrows' Wedding
(2025)
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Carol Midgley
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It was charming, a little breath of fresh summer air.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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4/5
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The film executes an audacious, daft and hugely enjoyable volte-face that reorientates the players and sets our trio up for a Grand Guignol-style finale.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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5/5
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David Bowie: The Final Act
(2025)
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Ed Potton
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Like the man, this film isn’t sentimental but gosh, it packs a punch.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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4/5
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The casting is ingenious.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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5/5
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His Girl Friday
(1940)
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Kevin Maher
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Grant’s performance, full of ad libs, is a suave delight.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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Death Race 2000
(1975)
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David Robinson
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Death Race 2000 was frankly aimed as a rip-off of Rollerball, but it has a number of advantages over the original. It never takes its pretensions or its future projections too seriously.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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2/5
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Accidental Tourist
(2025)
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Carol Midgley
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The surprise to me about this show — which has echoes of Karl Pilkington’s An Idiot Abroad but is less funny — was that it was better than I expected.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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4/5
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The Salt Path Scandal
(2025)
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Carol Midgley
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What a fascinatingly tawdry tale this is, and what an excellent documentary too.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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2/5
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Christine
(1983)
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Kevin Maher
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The car just isn’t scary.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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2/5
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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It’s difficult to convey just how little dramatic urgency there is in a film that’s effectively a computer-generated diorama, one that’s filled with fantastical flora and fauna and mystical beings who are all dressed up with nowhere to go.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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2/5
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Mackey is fine but wasted.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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2/5
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Goodbye June
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The narrative arrives in clumsy self-contained chunks that don’t always gel.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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2/5
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Fackham Hall
(2025)
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Ed Potton
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The gag count is admirably high; the laugh count is not.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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4/5
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The Tale of Silyan
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Fabulous visual gags abound.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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5/5
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I Know Where I'm Going!
(1945)
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Kevin Maher
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Chief among the penniless Scots is the wild, nature-loving Catriona, who is brilliantly played by Powell’s long-term partner, Pamela Brown.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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True Lies
(1994)
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Geoff Brown
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This is undoubtedly the popcorn muncher of the season.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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5/5
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Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
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Kevin Maher
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It is Wilder’s passion, and fulminating anger, that fill every frame of this dark and majestic noir.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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3/5
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Magazine Dreams
(2023)
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Kevin Maher
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Majors plays the central character, Killian Maddox, with subtlety and sensitivity.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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4/5
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Cover-Up
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The perfect marriage of maker and material, this is a thrilling documentary profile.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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2/5
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Eternity
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Eternity might have worked if the three leads conveyed anything beyond jaded inertia in each other’s company.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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2/5
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Oh. What. Fun.
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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You know that your comedy is in crisis when you’ve substituted actual jokes for the grating rhythms of an oompah band. Still, Pfeiffer remains charismatic till the end. She deserved better.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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4/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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There are gruesome gunfights, car chases, savage beatings and the sense by the closing frames that Safdie has delivered the narrative equivalent of an unstoppable plummet down an especially precipitous flight of stairs.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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5/5
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Hell's Angels
(1930)
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Kevin Maher
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It’s a pre-Hays Code movie, so the morality is fantastically off-kilter, with French brothels, bed-hopping, multiple suicides and a brutal execution that underscores the hellishness of war and the fact that Hughes, in the end, got it done.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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4/5
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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Ed Potton
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Perhaps most delightful, though, are the carefully drawn supporting characters, with welcome returns for Flash the sloth and Maurice LaMarche, the Vito Corleone-esque arctic shrew. Truly an offer you can’t refuse.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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4/5
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The Mirror Crack'd
(1980)
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Kevin Maher
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The fun evaporates slightly once a main character departs, although Hudson is a serious asset as the angst-ridden director Jason Rudd.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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2/5
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The Carpenter's Son
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Cage is the obvious problem, so conspicuously miscast that only, say, La Voix from Strictly or a Pekingese on tranquillisers might have delivered a more egregious characterisation.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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4/5
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The Ice Tower
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Cotillard and Pacini are a gripping double act, and a subterranean theme of childhood loss provides bonus emotional ballast.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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1/5
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The Thing with Feathers
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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When talented people make bad movies it hurts. And when they make hollow dramas crammed with ersatz emotions it’s almost unforgivable.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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3/5
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Sisu: Road to Revenge
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The writer-director Jalmari Helander invests the set-pieces with a welcome air of Looney Tunes absurdity, somehow neutralising the horror of mass murder.
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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4/5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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They’ve only gone and done it. The makers of this musical sequel have delivered a film that surpasses last year’s box-office smash in verve, ambition and emotional ache.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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4/5
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The Wild Geese
(1978)
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Kevin Maher
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A complicated movie, simmering with knotty ideas, and redolent of its era.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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2/5
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Hollywood’s most unlikely franchise returns inexplicably for a third outing... defined by the enervating sense that everyone involved, from cast to screenwriters to director Ruben Fleischer has simply, and in the most desultory way possible, turned up.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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3/5
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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It’s fantastically entertaining, yes, but it doesn’t need, and certainly should not have included, devastating real-life Holocaust footage to underpin the thrills.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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