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David Sexton

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No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “[No Other Choice] is made with all of Park's manic energy and visual invention, but its moral impact is blunted by its turn towards satire and even slapstick. ” – New Statesman Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “It’s a major production, backed by Steven Spielberg, that will not disappoint fans of the book or anyone who likes a really good sob.” – New Statesman Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “The subjects it really addresses -- love and loss, understanding and forgiveness across generations -- could not be more universal. You need only see a few minutes to think: so that’s how you do it.” – New Statesman Dec 12, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “It Was Just an Accident is terrific, nothing less than cinema as national conscience.” – New Statesman Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Pillion (2025) 100% EDIT “That is beautifully achieved in this accomplished debut -- pretty much the film Fifty Shades failed to be. ” – New Statesman Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% EDIT “Compared to the first film, the scenarios here are a bit inflated and over-mechanised, and there are some rather dubious plot holes. But if it’s a violent cartoon you fancy, as we all do from time to time, you won’t be disappointed.” – New Statesman Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Jennifer Lawrence, who made the film while four months pregnant with her second child, is tremendous here. She is totally committed, her extraordinary face often seen not just in extreme close-up but right into the iris of the eye.” – New Statesman Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “The real pleasure of Bugonia is seeing Stone and Plemons work together. They are a match for each other in ferocity and commitment, truly seeming almost a mini-repertory company now” – New Statesman Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “Though Springsteen spirals into breakdown, there’s little sense of jeopardy: viewers will be well aware of his later success. ” – New Statesman Oct 22, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “This enormously talky film, painfully over-scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, is never involving, nothing of what happens emerging persuasively from the characters we see, despite the quality of the acting, direction, design and editing. ” – New Statesman Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% EDIT “It’s a remarkably effective trick, offering both a novel take on the loyal dog yarn and new angle on a familiar horror movie scenario. ” – New Statesman Oct 9, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “Obscuring that reality by not naming them outright makes this countdown movie, gripping though it is, more of a genre exercise. The result is more of a standard Netflix product -- and less pertinent -- than it might have been.” – New Statesman Oct 1, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “A film serious about racial politics... There’s almost none of this primal subject in Pynchon’s novel, yet it’s Anderson’s main theme. He’s a director whose films always come at you from a different angle. Don’t miss this one.” – New Statesman Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Steve (2025) 78% EDIT “Steve is a film that would not work at all with a lesser actor than Cillian Murphy at its centre. He grips your attention and demands empathy.” – New Statesman Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% EDIT “There’s no replacing Maggie Smith, but Simon Russell Beale is hilarious as Hector Moreland, a whiskery grump.” – New Statesman Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% EDIT “Proust had a go at describing a reunion like this – a party where people seemed to have got on a bit -- but he didn’t give it half as much welly as Spinal Tap. It’s a triumph. You can just tell these guys go way back. ” – New Statesman Sep 12, 2025 Full Review On Swift Horses (2024) 53% EDIT “Promising. That promise is not fulfilled. Although On Swift Horses is about a seditious subject – queer love in a repressive society -- it is peculiarly earnest and programmatic.” – New Statesman Sep 3, 2025 Full Review The Roses (2025) 64% EDIT “So the causes of war have been updated, from basic inequality of roles to the stresses created by both striving for career fulfilment. Unfortunately, the film doesn’t work on any level. The English/American gambit is completely off-target.” – New Statesman Aug 29, 2025 Full Review 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) 94% EDIT “We see what they see, or at least what they are in the middle of, in an unprecedented way. It’s the most immersive filming possible. ” – New Statesman Aug 1, 2025 Full Review The Bad Guys 2 (2025) 87% EDIT “Being that difficult second crime caper, The Bad Guys 2 lacks the great charm of being able to reveal its characters for the first time... No matter. In a summer of dodgy sequels, it’s good to see the Bad Guys, being good and bad.” – New Statesman Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “This Superman is updated, it’s brightly coloured, it’s top-level CGI, but it’s still puerile. Manufacturing fun on this scale is hard work, even on a budget of $225m.” – New Statesman Jul 16, 2025 Full Review Barry Lyndon (1975) 78% EDIT “Barry Lyndon is a film altogether about time, one of the good reasons for experiencing the full 185 minutes continuously, in a cinema. It’s much more rewarding to see on a big screen.” – New Statesman Jul 9, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% EDIT “Garland and Boyle have produced an exclusively British horror film, a hokey play on how readily we revert to isolation.” – New Statesman Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) 82% EDIT “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life tries to revive the genre but ends up proving it passé.” – New Statesman Jun 11, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% EDIT “Jai Courtney is superb as a kind of satanic version of Steve Irwin, jocular, sententious and insane. ” – New Statesman Jun 4, 2025 Full Review
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