It Was Just an Accident (2025)
97%
5/5
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“Twists, shocks, and stabs of gallows humour abound.” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 10, 2025
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The Ice Tower (2025)
80%
5/5
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“Like all of Hadžihalilović’s mature films, The Ice Tower prioritises meticulously composed, mystically charged images over exposition, conjuring the painterliness of great silent cinema. ” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 1, 2025
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
49%
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“The War of the Rohirrim regrettably indulges one of anime’s worst tendencies by eroticising the appearance of its teen heroine. ” –
Sight & Sound
Nov 11, 2025
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One Battle After Another (2025)
94%
5/5
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“It might be the best Hollywood film of 2025; ahead of next year’s Midterm Elections, nothing can touch it as the movie of the historical moment.” –
The Arts Desk
Sep 30, 2025
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The Kingdom (2024)
100%
4/5
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“The French-produced The Kingdom, Colonna's fiction feature debut, was shot by Antoine Cormier in the kind of social realist style that makes “gritty” American mob thrillers seem baroque...” –
The Arts Desk
Aug 11, 2025
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Hot Milk (2025)
37%
4/5
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“Shaw brings perverse wit to her portrayal of the self-lacerating Rose. Krieps’s turn as the exasperatingly mercurial Ingrid is consciously self-conscious. Together, the three weave a dark tangled web that’s hard to brush off.” –
The Arts Desk
Jul 7, 2025
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Lollipop (2024)
100%
4/5
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“Thanks to Posy Sterling’s technically astounding performance – a whirligig of fluctuating, gut-level emotions – audience sympathy with Molly never flags.” –
The Arts Desk
Jun 16, 2025
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Good One (2024)
98%
5/5
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“Good One is a film of surpassing subtlety, not least in terms of the three actors’ body language; the note-perfect Collias is a major discovery.” –
The Arts Desk
May 16, 2025
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Restless (2024)
94%
3/5
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“[Jed Hart] demonstrates flair as a visual storyteller, eschewing dialogue in long, atmospheric sequences (including the opener) that propel the narrative.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 4, 2025
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Misericordia (2024)
94%
5/5
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“Guiraudie's regular cinematographer, Clare Mathon, endowed Misericordia with a stifling Bergman-esque atmosphere, its murky secret places redolent of Jérémie's psyche.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 2, 2025
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On Falling (2024)
96%
5/5
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“[Laura] Carreira is a minimalist with an eye and ear for evocative scenes and moments.” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 7, 2025
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Blitz (2024)
81%
3/5
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“When would it not be timely? It gets its vital message across, despite being an unwieldy epic that forsakes character development for didacticism. ” –
The Arts Desk
Nov 1, 2024
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The Old Man and the Land (2023)
3/5
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“The Old Man and the Land tells a convincing story of a broken family, but the storytelling is infinitely stronger than the images, which become the visual equivalent of background noise. ” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 3, 2024
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I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
85%
5/5
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“Trans writer-director Schoenbrun’s film is an instant classic, a disquieting but non-judgmental post-modern psychothriller about the value and dangers of wholesale immersion in visual media and the complexities of trans self-identification.” –
The Arts Desk
Jul 29, 2024
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Chuck Chuck Baby (2023)
100%
4/5
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“Writer-director Pugh doesn’t conceal her rage at the inhumane ways some men treat women. Her movie is laced with delicate visual and aural flourishes rare in earthy, humour-tinged dramas about the travails of working-class women. ” –
The Arts Desk
Jul 19, 2024
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Silver Haze (2023)
79%
4/5
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“Silver Haze is exemplary in showing how first love is wondrous until it curdles and how young adults learn -- or don’t, at their peril -- to negotiate that disillusionment and make tough decisions.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 2, 2024
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The Promised Land (2023)
97%
4/5
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“The movie’s moral shadings aren’t as subtle as Mikkelsen’s acting.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 19, 2024
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This Blessed Plot (2023)
100%
4/5
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“It says a lot for Adam Ganz’s script and Isaacs’ ability to suspend disbelief for these contrived events that we grow to care for the characters.” –
The Arts Desk
Jan 30, 2024
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Eileen (2023)
81%
5/5
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“Hathaway and McKenzie make sweet music together throughout, even when it’s as discordant as Richard Reed Parry’s shrieking jazz score.” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 4, 2023
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Tish (2023)
100%
4/5
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“Paul Sng’s documentary Tish is one of the best British films of 2023 – both a heartfelt tribute to the life and work of the late photographer Tish (born Patricia) Murtha and a timely reminder of the war waged on the nation’s industrial working-class.” –
The Arts Desk
Nov 18, 2023
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The Royal Hotel (2023)
89%
4/5
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“Bolstered by Garner and Henwick’s astute portrayals of women with different sensibilities, Green again proves a sharp storyteller who doesn’t overburden the screen with symbols. ” –
The Arts Desk
Nov 2, 2023
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Typist Artist Pirate King (2022)
94%
4/5
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“Macdonald’s sharp performance registers how wearying it can be providing companionship for someone whose consciousness is tuned to radio signals that are constantly being scrambled through no fault of their own.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 28, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
93%
5/5
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“Scorsese combines his sprawling crime thriller with an intimate mixed-race love story, one that curdles. This makes for a microcosmic approach to the Native American genocide that couldn’t be more wrenching.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 20, 2023
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The Old Oak (2023)
82%
5/5
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“In lieu of humor, The Old Oak champions empathy, unity, unconditional kindness, the exotic idea of communal sharing, the solidarity of ordinary people wherever they come from, a little hope. It’s a magical space in itself.” –
The Arts Desk
Sep 29, 2023
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A Year in a Field (2023)
4/5
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“Not the least of the documentary’s strengths is the realisation that such a world is as sustainable as an unnamed insect, fragility personified, getting its fill on a leaf.” –
The Arts Desk
Sep 21, 2023
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