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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
North (1994) Alexander Walker The overview of American parenthood and ethnic stereotypes is patronising and the satire of sitcomland too familiar to raise more than a wan smile.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Alexander Walker What happens in director Rob Reiner's thriller, scripted by William Goldman, may not be plausible. But it sure is gripping, and physically painful, too, to watch.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Milton Shulman If science fiction interests you then The Day the Earth Stood Still will provide a different and exciting evening in the cinema.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Alexander Walker It's effective entertainment.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (1960) Alexander Walker The Magnificent Seven is a rare kind of Western.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) India Block Fiennes’ Dr Kelson is so compelling that spending more time with the tragic final doctor in the land of the sick and the dead is entirely welcome.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Mary Hunt The suspense of this sad story is built up slowly, so slowly that it turns to doubt -- doubting if the picture will ever end.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Milton Shulman [Walt Disney] has made two disastrous miscalculations in this film version of the Lewis Carroll classic. He has tried to be funny about nonsense and he has attempted to add topicality to what is essentially timeless.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Alexander Walker ... A Few Good Men produces many cracking good moments of entertainment. The fail-safe construction of the plot is a model of man-made drama. It spoils nothing to say that the performances eventually outgun the message.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Milton Shulman John Cusack, as an adolescent uncommonly sex-starved, will probably appeal to kids of his own age group.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
*batteries not Included (1987) Alexander Walker The movie has a start-stop feel to it that could only be solved by a "Fast Forward" switch.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Alexander Walker Rob Reiner directs the William Goldman screenplay with relish and respect. It will keep you laughing happily ever after (or half-an-hour at least).
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Ian Coster "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" will have the politically minded standing on their seats.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Death Race 2000 (1975) Alexander Walker It is an energetic piece of Pop cinema.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Man Friday (1975) Alexander Walker A spirited and provocative film.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Hook (1991) Alexander Walker In the mechanised set-pieces, the stunts and the bits of business, like the stuffed crocodile which seems like a hangover from Spielberg's Jaws, human feeling totally vanishes.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Nick Howells This is three hours and 15 minutes of unsurpassed cinematic pyrotechnics. Cameron has taken 3D cinema to another wild dimension with a gloriously intense experience that will, frankly, leave you deliriously exhausted.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Neil Norman Where the first version seemed sluggish and overlong at two and a bit hours, the extended director's cut seems shorter, more exciting.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Alexander Walker Director James Cameron is at home among the state-of-the-art gizmos, but he goes badly adrift as the movie converts itself into a magical mystery tour of the sea bottom designed to reassure us terrestrials that Somebody Down There Likes Us.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
True Lies (1994) Alexander Walker James Cameron, the writer-director, has no notion of how to make a marital comedy at the same time as a James Bond-type thriller.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Alexander Walker Terminator 2 is violent, yes. But the magical effects created by five separate companies skilled in computer graphics, pyrotechnics, miniatures, animatronic make-up and optical illusions do wonders for the overkill.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Finders Keepers (1984) Milton Shulman Richard Lester made a name for himself in the Sixties as a director of such delightful zany films as The Knack and Help! It is a pity to see only slim vestiges of that talent in an obvious, ponderous comedy like Finders Keepers.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Repo Man (1984) Milton Shulman Alex Cox, making his directing debut, reveals a facility for visual anarchy but little evidence that he has much control over his material.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Terminator (1984) Milton Shulman James Cameron's direction is frantic enough to keep one interested in a very silly picture.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
A Christmas Carol (1984) Alexander Walker Tony Imi's photography encompasses every tone in the tale from the everyday to the supernatural -- and never, never makes the tinselly mistake of offering us merely a Christmas Card.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Nick Howells A melt-the-screen-down-to-gold performance. With the steamroller audacity of his character, Chalamet has staked a massively confident claim for his first Oscar. If you must gamble, lay it all on Chalamet. Now.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) India Block Everything is stitched together beautifully to create an exhilarating piece of movie musical magic that re-invents the Golden Age.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) Alexander Walker I'm afraid there's "zzz" in it as well "fizz."
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Running Man (2025) Nick Howells This is far from a trainwreck (good company while chomping through a kilo of popcorn) but don’t run to the cinema.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator (1987) Alexander Walker Like many a big simple picture - not to mention a big simple star like Schwarzenegger - Predator is a hand-finished job of dazzling body-work even if there's not much inside it.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator 2 (1990) Alexander Walker Directed by Stephen Hopkins, it looks better than it really is, which is only another mindless body-count score-board from producer Joel Silver.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Mastermind (2025) Nick Howells This is O’Connor at his finest yet, and The Mastermind is the slinkiest, most satisfying piece of “mood cinema” you’re likely to have seen for a long while.
Posted Oct 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Alan Brien ...with his giggles and rages, his depressions and intoxications, his sudden bursts of passion and his long slumps of boredom, [James Dean] creates a portrait of a baffled young man in three dimensions.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Dracula (1979) Alexander Walker This is a delectable Dracula.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Pillion (2025) India Block It’s also a sublime piece of art. It’s outrageous that director Harry Lighton, 32, has made such an assured directorial debut.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Christy (2025) Hannah Pettit The film entertains but will not knock anyone out.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Nick Howells Discomfiting and emotionally devastating in the extreme, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s dramatised account of Hind’s death is utterly essential film-making.
Posted Oct 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Rental Family (2025) India Block It’s a deceptively fiddly role, an actor playing an actor, who winds up acting out various roles for real people. But it’s a part made for Fraser and his lovely big, sad eyes.
Posted Oct 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Die My Love (2025) Nick Howells While not her finest, it’s a daring, full-throttle blast. So here’s to not waiting another eight years for more of the bonkers brilliance of Lynne Ramsay.
Posted Oct 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Re-Animator (1985) Milton Shulman Directed by Stuart Gordon as if he would revel in the explosion at a blood bank.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Lisa Wright Much like any artist profile, you can’t just fill it with ‘how’s, you also need the ‘why’s, and that’s where things flounder. The ever-soulful Graham is the exception here.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Beanpole (2019) Hannah Pettit Park Chan-wook’s crucial, dark humour is perhaps at its most brilliantly twisted best here in a film that lays bare the stupid lengths we’ll go to stay cogs in the corporate (paper) mill.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Nick Howells It is just so intelligent; so blisteringly powerful; so light of touch. It is also one of those rare movies that manages to mix an unlikely trinity of shaggy-dog comedy, revenge thriller and seriously heavy political s--t.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Nick Howells The Testament of Ann Lee is a wild, wonderful tribute to one hell of a woman and Seyfried is the glowing flame at its heart.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Bugonia (2025) India Block The final scenes are pure cinema. You’ll need it as catharsis for surviving the unrelenting tragedy of the first hour, where laughs are scant.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Hamnet (2025) India Block Understandably for a work that is mostly inner monologue, Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao has had to make some changes, but has stayed impressively true to the spirit and the emotional punch of her source material.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
After the Hunt (2025) India Block Even a stellar cast giving it full welly can’t save Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt from choking on its own self-importance.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Frankenstein (2025) Vicky Jessop Factor in some killer costume design and excellent performances from an all-star cast, and what you have is something that still has lessons to teach us.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Stephen King's It (1990) Geoffrey Phillips Probably the best adaptation since Salem's Lot.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Born Yesterday (1950) Milton Shulman The film, however, belongs to Judy Holliday for her gleeful characterization of the Brooklyn lass who gave up her wrongs for the Bill of Rights.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
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