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4/5
Saipan (2025) Philip De Semlyen Finally, someone has returned to The Damned United’s cunning formula for a good football movie: don’t show any football.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Christina Newland The visual metaphors are striking -- even as the running time outstays its welcome.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
A Private Life (2025) Elizabeth Weitzman A modest romp that allows Jodie Foster to perform in another language. And if you’ll watch Foster acting in anything, you’re gonna love watching her do it in French.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wasteman (2025) Shaurya Thapa Even if it doesn’t fully probe the socio-political realities of the prison experience, Wasteman succeeds as an emotional survival tale. Here’s a film that proves that sometimes, the most terrifying part of prison can just be who you’re locked up with.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Primate (2025) Philip De Semlyen Movie monsters come in all shapes and sizes, but they’re rarely as diminutive and deceptively cuddly as the pet chimp-turned-brainy-hell​-beast in this endearingly daft B-movie​ horror.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Rental Family (2025) Hanna Flint As Phillip gets more intertwined in their lives, the plot veers into white saviour territory. Still, there’s a lightness of touch in Hikari’s direction and she draws strong performances from the supporting cast.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Philip De Semlyen The Bone Temple is one of those rare sequels that doesn’t just improve on its predecessor, it improves it... This is simultaneously the nastiest and most soulful of the franchise to date -- and the most probing.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Whelan Barzey The Voice of Hind Rajab’s release during the ongoing humanitarian crisis moves it beyond documentation and into an essential act of intervention.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) Philip De Semlyen Sure, it’s a somewhat honeyed portrait that lacks voices to put the other side across. But as the flimsiness of the case against Assange is laid bare, so too is a system that tried to suffocate, torture and crush him to protect its interests.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Philip De Semlyen Unlike the first two Avatars, which even haters would concede were epic journeys of discovery, with Cameron as an attentive guide to a dazzling alien universe, a sense of familiarity kicks in.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Philip De Semlyen Marty Supreme is a stunning achievement, a breathless yet precisely controlled joyride full of vivid characters, hairpin turns and did-that-just-happen moments -- and a modernist fairy tale about big ambitions colliding with grubby street-level realities.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Hanna Flint Ella McCay is just a little too easy listening – background noise rather than a banger.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1940) Nigel Floyd Nothing like as lavish as the later MGM version with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman, but in its own small-scale way a superior film by far.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Time Out Staff The first 90 minutes are as good as anything Cameron has done: hi-tech, blue-collar film-making; tense, brittle, on the knuckle. The last hour and a bit is increasingly OTT, sentimental and unconvincing.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Eternity (2025) Olly Richards It’s all cute enough and certainly so inoffensive that there’s nothing to actively dislike, so it’s a pity its potential is never really fulfilled.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Christina Newland Better (and far cheaper) than group therapy, Sentimental Value is a thoughtful and moving exploration of the long tail of family dynamics.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
A Christmas Carol (1984) Time Out Staff [George C. Scott's] intelligence and quickness at last give us a Scrooge of many dimensions; a man of tortured and forbidding nobility, made cruel by uncaring parentage and a malign fate, rather than the usual thin miser.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Philip De Semlyen There have been better animated sequels and more epic ones, but has there ever been a fluffier follow-up than this bouncy, buoyant caper starring at least half the nature world?
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Kaleem Aftab Not every performance is assured and the script includes perhaps one twist too many. Yet Left-Handed Girl remains a sensitive and affecting drama that avoids sentiment in favour of more grounded emotional truths.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Philip De Semlyen It’s a movie that got up on the wrong side of the bed and compensated with four quadruple espressos.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Nuremberg (2025) Philip De Semlyen You can feel archival poring that went into the research. It lends authenticity and intellectual rigour to this extraordinary, century-defining event. Crowe and co do the rest.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Helen O'Hara Although the quips aren’t always sharp enough and the sleight of hand a little lacking, it takes a hard heart not to cheer as a few young victims of a broken system carve out their own little bit of magic.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Choral (2025) Philip De Semlyen With Ralph Fiennes gravely essaying the controversial choirmaster at its heart, it does a lovely job of swerving the obvious notes but misplaces its stirring crescendo.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Dragonfly (2025) Philip De Semlyen For a study of human connection at its most honest and affecting, with two remarkable lead performances, Dragonfly is a powerfully striking experience.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Train Dreams (2025) Ian Freer Without simplifying anything, Train Dreams is ultimately a film that looks for and finds the good in people and in life. Wherever Clint Bentley goes next -- especially if Edgerton and Jones tag along -- we’ll happily go with him.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Christy (2025) Dan Jolin This is Sweeney’s film. Christy is a career-best turn, sure to draw favourable comparisons with Hilary Swank. She may not be a problematic dude, but she’s certainly Michôd’s most impressive lead performer yet.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Olly Richards It cleverly pulls at the supposed laws of the series in a way that makes it more interesting without diluting the fearsome nature of the title character. Trachtenberg is making the franchise richer with every instalment.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Damsels in Distress (2011) Keith Uhlich Too many movies come to us as preordained cult objects — this is the real deal.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Relay (2024) Christina Newland By the time everyone’s drawn their guns, I was thoroughly invested. Relay is an old-school thriller with a drum-tight script and real style.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Hamnet (2025) Philip De Semlyen Zhao doesn’t just tell you about the healing power of art, she shows you. Prepare your tear ducts accordingly.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) Elizabeth Weitzman DaCosta’s provocative directorial touches give her scathing screenplay an unsettling, almost avant-garde theatricality.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Pillion (2025) Leonie Cooper Pillion is a wonderful film that’s heavy with purpose... All that and it’s also very, very hot.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Souleymane's Story (2024) Philip De Semlyen Lojkine, who co-wrote the naturalistic screenplay with Delphine Agut, has unearthed a real talent in newcomer Sangaré... It takes more than first-hand experience to inhabit a character with this much subtlety and skill.
Posted Oct 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Leonie Cooper As a living, loving portrait of blue collar Americana, Deliver Me from Nowhere excels. The late-night diners, faded fairgrounds, and classic cars are gloriously, richly rendered.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Philip De Semlyen Johnson has assembled his strongest cast yet and provides them with entertainingly ‘extra’ characters to inhabit -- and for us to tut at. Best of all, Daniel Craig and Josh O’Connor form a sleuthing double act with shades of Holmes and Watson.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Anemone (2025) Anna Smith This family endeavour is an acting masterclass, and we should be grateful that it’s lured Daniel Day-Lewis back into acting after eight years in the metaphorical woods.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Black Phone 2 (2025) Olly Richards There’s still plenty here to make you shiver, but in letting events out of the basement this sequel has also released much of the tension.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Bugonia (2025) Sophie Monks Kaufman Stone and Plemons’ verbal battles of wits are worth the price of admission, even if the script co-written by Will Tracy is overly reliant on culture war jargon.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Keith Uhlich ’nino doing Ryan Murphy’s Oleanna proves a most ineffectual pathway back to Light Likability.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Dan Jolin Despite an occasional burst of self-mocking glibness, this is a movie that isn’t afraid of sincerity, and it brings a bit of silver-lining energy to our overcast world.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lost Bus (2025) Philip De Semlyen With the British action maestro behind the camera, there’s a dispassionate, procedural quality that eschews all the flag-waving that can blight the genre. The flags here are mostly on fire.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Lou Thomas From start to finish, One Battle After Another is a mighty 162 minutes of danger, comedy, excitement, love, sex and confusion.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Philip De Semlyen With everyone getting their moment, it’s a touching but low-key ending that gathers all your faves together for a last supper. In true Downton style, it goes out not with a bang but with a duck.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
I Swear (2025) Philip De Semlyen Empathetic, funny and myth-busting, it gives you permission to laugh at the situation while feeling only compassion for the man.
Posted Sep 08, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Remake (2025) Philip De Semlyen It’s a funny as well as brutally honest film.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Tom Huddleston What’s remarkable about that, however, is not that Spinal Tap contains dialogue worthy of being ranked alongside the all-time great comic screenplays, but that almost every word of it was improvised.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Philip De Semlyen Beyond the guilty laughs, authentically beige ’70s period detail and news reportage aesthetic, there’s an offbeat anti-capitalist folk tale here that will strike a chord in the current moment.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Philip De Semlyen If you’ve recovered from those Cold War classics, Kathryn Bigelow’s unbelievably stressful nuclear disaster movie is sending you straight back to the basement.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Philip De Semlyen Beyond the regular crunch of fist on bone, The Smashing Machine is an unexpectedly gentle, soulful character study that has Johnson undercutting his crowd-pleasing ‘The Rock’ persona with vulnerability and boyish uncertainty.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Landmarks (2025) Philip De Semlyen Martel’s forensic doc shatters any sense that, for her fellow Argentinians, the colonial burden has been lifted. It’s an intimate pinhole camera capturing an IMAX-sized story.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
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