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3/5
Skyscraper Live (2025) Ed Power There’s not much to see – and so, the audience will have found themselves in the weird position of both experiencing a pounding heart and occasionally stifling a yawn.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mercy (2026) Tim Robey Everything’s laid on so thick, as slick entertainment, that it pretends to sound dire notes of caution while bouncing around as a whizzily inane high-tech romp.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Telegraph Staff Patchy but engaging children's satire.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Robbie Collin It’s tense, absurd, desperate and daft, all at once: seldom have so many contradictory tones been so gainfully employed.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Hugo Davenport Though the film does not entirely escape cliche on the way to its gruesome climax, Annie Wilkes makes a believably ghastly female antidote to the dreary procession of serial male slashers who have marched across our screens of late.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Hugo Davenport Aaron Sorkin's eloquent script strikes sparks of political insight and sharp wisecracks, weaving its way from Oval Office to Rose Garden with the confident air of a resident.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Secret of Me (2025) Anita Singh [Jim Ambrose's] truth is laid out in this startling documentary, which burns with a sense of injustice.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Robbie Collin Your view of this ardent, sobering chamber piece from Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania will rest, I suspect, on your response to the knotty moral question posed by its very existence.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Rip (2026) Tim Robey Very loosely based on a true story, The Rip winds up sitting on the same uneasy fence about policing that almost every cop film does these days. It’s only half good, then, while also being not half bad.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Patrick Gibbs A string of cliches both in the characters of the riders and the adventures that befall them.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Sukhdev Sandhu This is mighty, epic cinema and it should be allowed to flow on endlessly, like streams of molten lava from a spectacular volcano that erupted years before.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Robbie Collin The leader of this crew, Sir Lord Jimmy Crystal, is played by Jack O’Connell with a Jack Nicholson-esque fiendish allure and an impressively specific Fife accent. Both he and Fiennes are tremendous, veering rivetingly between madcap and subdued.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Charles Clover Here we have a rare thing among Hollywood films, a script that seems like the personal, felt experience of the narrator.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Sukhdev Sandhu The Two Towers is as epic as mainstream cinema gets these days. We should count our blessings. It has the courage to be gloomy and feral and despairing.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Andrew O'Hagan Peter Jackson's movie is a piece of wonderment beyond anything crafted for the cinema in a long time. On all fronts it is the movie of the year, and, really, people who don't like this movie in some fundamental way just don't like the movies.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Robbie Collin Basically, if you want to watch two attractive youngsters share a series of romantic near-misses across a string of idyllic holiday destinations, this film is for you.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) George Campbell Dixon [Alice in Wonderland] has many good things in it and should have a popular success. But it will not satisfy completely either purists for the Lewis Carroll canon, or the even larger public that delights in Mr. Disney's best.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Giant (2025) Tim Robey Toby Stephens all but steals the show as Warren: he gets a set-piece monologue about the changing culture of the 1990s – all lads’ mags, earrings and fast cars – which he tucks into like prime rib.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Eric Shorter After so much blood and thunder, Mr. Reiner's diffident young couple make oddly aggregable company.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Moonstruck (1987) Victoria Mather Moonstruck represents a return to good writing with real, fully developed characters, not just some sensational "film concept" slapped on the screen with flashy imagery.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Empire of the Sun (1987) Victoria Mather I admire [Steven Spielberg] for sticking to the brattishness of Jim, which is implicit in the book, but what the director failed to work out was a way of making us care about what happens to him.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
*batteries not Included (1987) Victoria Mather Batteries Not Included is both ineffectual and dated.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Victoria Mather Cary Elwes, as the dashing hero, has the swordsmanship and the one-liners to deal conclusively with anyone who doesn't believe in fairy-tales.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Hugo Davenport Tension is skillfully woven into the intricacies of the legal process, and Kaffee's passage to maturity, via Oedipal locking of horns with Jessup, supplies the necessary psychological counterpoint.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Telegraph Staff I find the effectiveness of blending fact and fiction infinitely depressing.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) Ed Power ...The Final Act adds up to an unsatisfying valentine to one of pop’s great mavericks.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Wild London (2026) Benji Wilson It almost goes without saying that Wild London, a single hour-long film, is an absolute delight, such are the standards that Attenborough and his producers have set over the last 50 years.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Robbie Collin There’s a certain honour to this hyper-niche premise... But the result is often rather tiresome and insistent: to get the Diamond, you have to push through a fair bit of rough.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Secrets of the Conclave (2025) Anita Singh In Secrets of the Conclave...some of the 133 cardinals who elected Pope Leo XIV speak candidly about what went on behind the scenes. Their insights are a fascinating mix of the profound and the mundane.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Death Race 2000 (1975) Patrick Gibbs It manages to place, with more fun than harm I would say, some passable parodies on familiar film subjects before running out of road and ideas at about the half way stage.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Hook (1991) Hugo Davenport It has none of the spontaneity of Barrie, nor any of the wistful melancholy that lies submerged beneath the bright surface of the tale. Alternately manic and twee, it has, instead, only the ugliness of wilfully arrested adolescence.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Salt Path Scandal (2025) Anita Singh This is an excellent documentary for students of journalism, with Hadjimatheou explaining how she followed a tip-off – about a book she had never read – and set about finding witnesses, checking sources and consulting experts.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Eric Shorter However unpleasant or unconvincing the idea may appear, it is developed with the proper compulsion of a good thriller.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Housemaid (2025) Tim Robey This is a full-tilt throwback to “erotic thriller” tropes from the 1990s.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Robbie Collin That the franchise has already sunk to repeating itself in its third part does not inspire much confidence in the two still to come.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Goodbye June (2025) Robbie Collin As a Christmas movie, this is a sweetly melancholic addition to the canon, and if it feels a little too familiar for comfort at times then it’s doing its job.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Fackham Hall (2025) Robbie Collin Usually, a spoof franchise would only feel this exhausted by the second or third sequel, so I suppose Fackham Hall deserves points for efficiency at least.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Prime Minister (2025) Kara Kennedy Admirers will be transported; critics will develop a nervous tic. And the rest of us will ponder whether the world truly needed two hours of Jacinda’s domestic cinema. Spoiler: probably not.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Chris Peachment I won't spoil the ending for those who wish to sit through the extra 20 minutes of footage that the director has reinstated, enabling him to call this Special Edition rather than the more accurate The Abyss: The Self-Indulgent Version.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Ella McCay (2025) Tim Robey There’s not a great deal more to be said about the experience, except that it is best politely avoided, like a Christmas invitation from neighbours you find chirpy, well-meaning and off-puttingly strange on every collision.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Baby's Day Out (1994) Lesley Cunliffe Great fun as a family movie: not remotely heart-warming and beautifully photographed.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
True Lies (1994) Lesley Cunliffe Sitting through True Lies is like finding that the indoor fireworks you've bought actually deliver the promised pyrotechnics -- and then discovering that the packing doubles as a music box.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Robbie Collin There’s a subtle, astute parable here about the media’s role in the shaping and streamlining of public morality – happily wrapped in a romp.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
In the Hand of Dante (2025) Robbie Collin The historical sequences are pompous; the present-day ones preposterous. It’s a sort of accidental Monty Python’s Da Vinci Code – without jokes, though not entirely without laughs.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Dogs (1979) Patrick Gibbs Since the French director Alain Jessua won the opera prima at Venice in 1964 with Life Upside Down, he has made original films at wide intervals, but none so satisfying as his first, and what must be considered a decline continues in his [The Dogs].
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Repo Man (1984) Patrick Gibbs As a first feature to be written and directed by Alex Cox, an Englishman living in the United States, Repo Man must be considered a commendable achievement, though ultimately it fails to sustain its initial promise of an original subject and style.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Finders Keepers (1984) Patrick Gibbs A more complicated plot can hardly be imagined... That is now achieves coherence as well as continuous comedy must be greatly due to the script writers.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Wild Flowers (1981) Patrick Gibbs The artistry with which three generation of a little family in the country are studied is considerable, the picture beautifully composed.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Terminator (1984) Patrick Gibbs Bullets or explosives or fire do not affect the monster, and all devotees of destruction drama should be delighted.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Eternity (2025) Tim Robey There are tear-jerking scenes that require a viewer to surrender. I struggled to do so. Funnily enough, Eternity drags.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
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