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Tim Robey

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The Shining, The Thin Red Line, Le Mepris, Blue Velvet, Sweet Smell of Success

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Mercy (2026) 24% 2/5 EDIT “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.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% 3/5 EDIT “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.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Giant (2025) 61% 4/5 EDIT “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.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “This is a full-tilt throwback to “erotic thriller” tropes from the 1990s.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 1/5 EDIT “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. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “There are tear-jerking scenes that require a viewer to surrender. I struggled to do so. Funnily enough, Eternity drags.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 2/5 EDIT “Jupe is such a good, intuitive actor he comes out of this film unscathed, while Cage is so weird and fearless that he never seems less than fully committed to whatever ranting and raving the script needs from Joseph on a reel-to-reel basis. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “While snappiness is worth angling for, the Aaron Sorkin-ish dialogue makes Nuremberg hit less hard, not more. At times it’s like a West Wing prequel strutting around in post-war Germany...” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “The energy, gruesome thrills and craziness of this flick are hard not to admire.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Bad Apples (2025) 83% 2/5 EDIT “Gunning for dark laughs, [the film] wins a handful that thinly reverberate, but the constant straining to be both stressful and funny is a deal-breaker.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Moss & Freud (2025) 3/5 EDIT “The film lays out all these facts quite vividly, but the insights it’s peddling into art and beauty never get below the surface. It’s a deeper dimension – truth – that eludes it.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% 2/5 EDIT “I loved [Nina Hoss], and wished she was the heroine: that might have been a fresher, better way for DaCosta to refocus the whole shebang.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 22, 2025 Full Review 100 Nights of Hero (2025) 68% 3/5 EDIT “This flight of fancy may land with a bump, but no one is lacking for sensational things to wear.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Good Fortune (2025) 78% 2/5 EDIT “A rich guy and a poor guy, portrayed by Seth Rogen and Aziz Ansari, find their fates swapped in Good Fortune. Yes, it’s a lot like Trading Places – if it was patronising bilge.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 4/5 EDIT “Strong – so earnestly committed to his own process – has found a role that lets him applaud how art gets made. And in White, too, something primal and touching stirs. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Animal Farm (2025) 1/5 EDIT “The bizarre achievement of this new film is to make us feel trapped and punished through every phase of the story. It looks so unremittingly horrid, well before Napoleon’s ascendancy to become a fascist, paranoid despot. ” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% 5/5 EDIT “Roofman has heart, energy and personality fit to burst.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “After A Star is Born and Maestro, this is proof that a Cooper film can be loose, funny and a good deal less grandiose than those – and that he’s capable of getting a superb performance from another male lead, while taking a back seat himself.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 14, 2025 Full Review I Swear (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The writer-director, Kirk Jones (Waking Ned, Nanny McPhee) has sculpted this to provide an education – it’s unflashy directing with an ordinary look, and a few clichés in tow. But his handling of the cast is top-to-bottom impeccable.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) 28% 2/5 EDIT “Netflix has definitely given us worse ways to kill an hour and a half, many of them louder, costlier and more inane. But watching this fumble its few volleys of suspense and get increasingly far-fetched, it feels like a waste...” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Dead of Winter (2025) 75% 3/5 EDIT “Barb is a good part for Thompson, but might have been a great one if the camera and editing had never let her go. Whenever she can, she busies herself rescuing this mid-tier film...” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Steve (2025) 78% 4/5 EDIT “At a crisp 92 minutes, the film adds vital layers without belabouring its points. In form, it’s raw, jagged, even crude – choices that feel more truthful the longer you sit with them.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 18, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% 2/5 EDIT “Farrell and Robbie have an instant chemistry that starts to wear off, which is exactly the opposite of what the story needs.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 18, 2025 Full Review The Cut (2024) 69% 2/5 EDIT “What looks at first like a boxing drama tries to invent “weight-loss drama” as a genre all its own. The all-round exertion is immense, but the experience is a bizarre ordeal.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 5, 2025 Full Review On Swift Horses (2024) 53% 3/5 EDIT “On Swift Horses is seductively cast and shot, as befits a heart-torn romantic drama about hidden vices...But it’s a film that feels emotionally half-fulfilled, never quite grabbing or devastating in the way you’d hope.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 4, 2025 Full Review
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