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Steve Rose

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David Bowie: The Final Act (2025) 70% 3/5 EDIT “Ten years on, it’s moving to hear Visconti, his lifelong friend and collaborator, talking about recording in secret what they all knew would be his last project.” – Guardian Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Devil's Backbone (2001) 93% 5/5 EDIT “The political and the supernatural come together beautifully (and violently), and the unsentimental portrayal of childhood is refreshing, with terrific performances from the boy actors. It’s altogether a supremely satisfying tale.” – Guardian Dec 23, 2025 Full Review City on Fire (1987) 89% 4/5 EDIT “This is a more brutal and realistic kind of movie, full of grubby locations, tough choices and sudden deaths as well as some thrilling foot chases and shootouts.” – Guardian Nov 13, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% 3/5 EDIT “The result comes across like a cross between a buddy movie and a horror movie -- a war movie without the war. Ultimately, it all comes down to the core relationships, so it’s just as well that Hoffman and Jonsson are both terrific.” – Guardian Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Dreaming of You: The Making of The Coral (2025) 3/5 EDIT “In truth, they’re not really prime rockumentary material, but this film playfully captures the spirit of a bunch of talented young mates who just wanted to play in a band, and got their wish.” – Guardian Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Eno (2024) 97% 3/5 EDIT “It is not, ultimately, as radical as it purports to be, or as revealing as it could have been perhaps (some external viewpoints would have been welcome), but stimulating and cerebral all the same.” – Guardian Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Poolman (2023) 24% 1/5 EDIT “Chris Pine is usually a likable screen presence but he’s let down here by a flimsy script and over-indulgent direction -- which could have something to do with the co-screenwriter (Chris Pine) and the first-time director (er, Chris Pine).” – Guardian Jun 26, 2024 Full Review Arcadian (2024) 78% 3/5 EDIT “A lean and competent, albeit generic, thriller, with the added benefit of Nicolas Cage. ” – Guardian Jun 13, 2024 Full Review A House in Jerusalem (2023) 75% 3/5 EDIT “The setting and the deeper roots of the story give it extra resonance and relevance, while the broader regional landscape of dispossession and intergenerational trauma are encapsulated with some subtlety and sensitivity.” – Guardian May 30, 2024 Full Review HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle (2024) 76% 2/5 EDIT “For the uninitiated, you might as well be a cat or a crow watching this: much of it will leave you cold or simply go over your head.” – Guardian May 29, 2024 Full Review In Flames (2023) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Nawal centres the story and holds the screen admirably; conveying emotional subtleties and depths, often without words, and this feels like a glimpse of a world that’s usually hidden.” – Guardian May 22, 2024 Full Review Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) 90% 3/5 EDIT “The athleticism and fight choreography is impressive, even if the action is edited so frenetically that it’s almost impossible to follow. The failings of the story drain some excitement, though. The characters are almost too cartoonish to take seriously.” – Guardian May 17, 2024 Full Review On Resistance Street (2023) 3/5 EDIT “When it comes to solidarity and resistance, these old punks can still teach today’s youth or thing or two.” – Guardian Apr 26, 2024 Full Review RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ (2023) 98% 4/5 EDIT “For much of the past decade, Beyoncé has been the standard by which others are judged and, at this stage in her career, she’s really got nothing left to prove but as the title suggests, rather than slowing down, she’s still reinventing herself.” – Guardian Nov 30, 2023 Full Review Eternals (2021) 47% 2/5 EDIT “It's not exactly boring - there's always something new to behold - but nor it is particularly exciting, and it lacks the breezy wit of Marvel's best movies.” – Guardian Oct 24, 2021 Full Review Flatland (2019) 91% 3/5 EDIT “It's an odd mix of tones that doesn't always work but, like its protagonists, Flatland is not afraid to strike out and look for something new.” – Guardian Aug 17, 2021 Full Review People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan (2021) 82% 3/5 EDIT “What really redeems the film are the brilliantly observed characters: these are archetypes of modern Britain that nobody really nailed before.” – Guardian Aug 16, 2021 Full Review Extinct (2021) 43% 2/5 EDIT “In the Darwinian world of kids' entertainment, Extinct looks like an evolutionary dead end.” – Guardian Aug 16, 2021 Full Review Riders of Justice (2020) 96% 4/5 EDIT “There's a sincere empathy for these damaged characters, and intelligent musings on fate, coincidence and trauma, all helped down by some delightfully absurd and audacious comedy.” – Guardian Jul 22, 2021 Full Review Night of the Kings (2020) 96% 4/5 EDIT “The freshness of the approach, combined with the substance of the stories, works the same strange magic on the viewer as on the inmates. It is easy to be swept along.” – Guardian Jul 20, 2021 Full Review The Wasps Are Here (1978) 4/5 EDIT “This is an emblematic clash of urban/western values versus rural/traditional ones, but the themes are treated with subtlety and even-handedness.” – Guardian Jul 15, 2021 Full Review We Intend to Cause Havoc (2019) 83% EDIT “An amiable, if orthodox film that doesn't scratch too far beneath the surface.” – Guardian Jul 13, 2021 Full Review The God Committee (2021) 64% 2/5 EDIT “It feels as if the story has been given a last-minute melodrama transplant.” – Guardian Jul 12, 2021 Full Review Kindred (2020) 69% 3/5 EDIT “It's Shaw who steals the show, conveying her character as both a heartless monster and a woman haunted by her own past, with that kind of breathy, distracted haughtiness she does so well.” – Guardian Jul 2, 2021 Full Review Crazy Samurai: 400 vs 1 (2020) 37% 2/5 EDIT “Most viewers will tire out long before this Crazy Samurai does.” – Guardian Jun 30, 2021 Full Review
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