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4/5
Send Help (2026) Clarisse Loughrey Send Help becomes the best of both worlds: indulgent Raimi splatter fuelled by a satisfying touch of righteous rage.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Adam Mars-Jones Elijah Wood is very good.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Clarisse Loughrey H Is for Hawk concerns itself less with the healing of wounds, but rather with the prying open of them. Can we look so deep into the pulp that the fear of it eventually washes away?
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It’s a whole slapstick affair, conducted with Park’s trademark finesse, and taking full advantage of Lee’s comedic skills.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Adam Mars-Jones Bening has the ability to let us see one mood or emotion rising through another. Her animation is captivating, but also intelligently nuanced.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Anthony Lane William Goldman has adapted Stephen King's novel for the screen and done it the world of good, or at least brushed up its evil.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) John Lyttle The balance between terror and vicious wit is exquisitely maintained.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Pacific Heights (1990) John Lyttle John Schlesinger's slack, daft thriller is desperately in need of sub-text, a convincing script and firmer construction.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Rental Family (2025) Clarisse Loughrey With Fraser as her figurehead, it’s certainly a work of broad and deep compassion. But there are self-imposed limitations that you’d wish Hikari and her co-writer Stephen Blahut would cross, if not purely out of curiosity.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Mercy (2026) Clarisse Loughrey A baffling piece of work that happily swipes the mood and aesthetics of Hollywood’s police state dystopias (Minority Report, RoboCop, Blade Runner etc), while presenting such horrors as an agreeable norm.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Rip (2026) Clarisse Loughrey It’s a character piece that does very little with its characters, since it’s been afflicted with the Netflix curse of dialogue written exclusively for people who are busy scrolling on their phones.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Kevin Harley The peaks ensure that Return of the King is a rare beast, both as a second sequel that trounces its predecessors and an event movie that rises to its sense of occasion. Giving credit where it's due, it's also vigorous, briskly epic entertainment.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Anthony Quinn Even if part three, The Return of the King, hasn't quite the satisfying thump one would like of a conclusion, Jackson's trilogy has ascended the summit of the Fantasy premiership from which the likes of Star Wars are a speck in the distance.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Adam Mars-Jones Rob Reiner's direction of a mainly young cast is confident, and the film has some small pleasures to offer. But the whole projects seems too calculated.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Clarisse Loughrey [Jack O'Connell] delivers another masterfully villainous performance off the back of last year's Sinners. He understands what's needed to make a vastly complex and elementally evil character like this work.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Thomas Sutcliffe Even at three hours long, the first instalment of Peter Jackson's trilogy is going to demand considerably less of your life than the original... And, as a sequence of images, The Fellowship of the Ring is undeniably dazzling.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Roger Clarke Unfortunately, so many of these plot standards have been looted over the years that everything feels tired and familiar. There are unforgivably dull patches, and, McKellen's Gandalf aside, the characterisation is decidedly thin.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hamnet (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It’s a deeply contemplative film, its candlelit shadows provided by cinematographer Łukasz Żal, as if painted by one of the Dutch masters. The camera focuses on spaces as opposed to people, moving as slowly as curtains drawn across a stage.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Anthony Quinn Reiner has gone for a crowd-pleaser and, in the process, made the least satisfying film of his career.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Kevin Jackson The Princess Bride will delight a lot of audiences, but it doesn't bode at all well for Reiner's future development: what next? Baby Boom II?
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Sheila Johnston ...[the film] grips a series of big issues - patriotism, justice, accountability - by the throat without, however, squeezing too much out of any of them.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Secrets of the Conclave (2025) Annabel Nugent For your religious scholar, maybe this is riveting stuff, but your average viewer will likely find it a bore.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Clarisse Loughrey In Brewer’s hands, their interior worlds are reduced to two modes of existence: triumph and tragedy.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Clarisse Loughrey If it’s a little less messy than we’d hope for with Trier -- well, then it argues beautifully for why it’s a blessing that those messier films exist in the first place.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Hook (1991) Sheila Johnston Spielberg's world has none of the constrictions and conflicts of Edwardian England, no rigid class codes, no dreams that money can't buy. The only poverty is in its imagination.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Housemaid (2025) Clarisse Loughrey The Housemaid isn’t a particularly great film. But it is camp.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Chaplin is so slinky and strange in the role, a seductress with a blow dart full of hallucinogenic drugs and promethean desires, that she immediately emerges as the film’s standout.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Goodbye June (2025) Clarisse Loughrey [Kate Winslet] might be too much of an actor to be a director. The performances here are irreproachable, and she even coaxes some beautiful moments from the film’s many child stars, but there’s very little film to be found built around them.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Kevin Jackson The first 40-odd minutes of Special Edition remain about as gripping as anyone could reasonably wish, but seeing Cameron compounding the errors of his original Abyss... is like watching a captain willfully scuppering his own ship.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Sheila Johnston The underwater sequences warrant the price of admission alone.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Anthony Lane Terminator 2 beckons the art of special effects into alarming and beautiful new territory, and forces you to reconsider their place in cinema.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It’s a film of overwhelmingly visceral emotion; impossible, then, to separate from what we imagine Panahi must feel himself.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Wake Up Dead Man is more sober than Glass Onion, more tonally aligned with Knives Out, not as clever as either in its solution and a little baggier in its delivery, yet more soulful in its concerns... The point is that this series is yet to stumble.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Pillion (2025) Clarisse Loughrey None of this would work if Melling and Skarsgård weren’t able to tune their performances to a subatomic degree.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Clarisse Loughrey If Marty Supreme exists to prove that Timothée Chalamet could have easily kicked it with the New Hollywood icons of the Seventies, the Harvey Keitels and the Gena Rowlandses, then point proven. He’s truly one of our greatest talents.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Directors Byron Howard and Jared Bush, the latter the new head of the studio, have made a sequel that not only justifies itself, but arguably improves on its predecessor. Really, it’s the same film but better.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Clarisse Loughrey For Good has little sense of movement, literally or emotionally – no profound revelations, no wonder or spectacle. All that’s to be done now is for each character to process, via standardised ballad, what they’ve learned.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Nuremberg (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Crowe and Malek are well cast for this kind of dance. The former is a battering ram of an onscreen presence, mixed here with an unnerving sense of comfort in his surroundings.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Running Man (2025) Clarisse Loughrey What should, quite easily, feel like a mirror’s been smashed and its pieces methodically jammed between our ribs, feels closer to a friendly knock on the shoulder. The material’s all there, yet there’s none of the urgency.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Die My Love (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It’s a fearsome, all-consuming spell of a film, and its effects are unshakeable.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Anemone (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Anemone doesn’t seem to think that kind of deeper interrogation is at all necessary. It would rather bask in a generic wave of misery, of brutalised children growing up to be brutal men.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (1987) Adam Mars-Jones The throw-away sadism is decidedly unpleasant.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator 2 (1990) Sheila Johnston The alien proves a disappointment but the special effects are otherwise the highlights of an incoherent and baffling plot.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator 2 (1990) John Lyttle More mindlessly entertaining machine-tooled schlock from the Joel Silver action-factory, sparked by clever special effects, flippant humor and commendable straight-faced turns from Gary Busey and Danny Glover.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Bugonia (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Bugonia is one of the best films in recent memory to capture what it feels like to be alive right now. Because of that, it is Yorgos Lanthimos’s darkest and most timely work.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Cooper spends much of Deliver Me from Nowhere’s runtime convincing us of White’s transformation...Unfortunately, the rest...is reduced in his script to the same pop psychology we’ve come to expect from a music biopic.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Mastermind (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Reichardt, with her regular cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt, has a wonderful way of staging scenes that feel sparse and warm at the very same time.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Roofman (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Cianfrance’s touch eventually helps shift the perspective away from the easy comedy of Manchester’s life, and towards a more subtle – and quite moving – portrait of a man desperate for a second shot at normality...
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
After the Hunt (2025) Clarisse Loughrey This isn’t a total misfire for Guadagnino, but it does see him paddling around in the shallower end of the humanity pool.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Good Fortune (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Good Fortune is a cinephile’s comedy, patchworked from the likes of It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Trading Places (1983), and Wings of Desire (1987). It’s more pleasant than it is funny.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
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