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Esquire UK is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Henry Wong, Miranda Collinge.

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Twisters (2024) Henry Wong I’m happy to report that Twisters, a summer blockbuster about seeking and destroying tornados, spins in with a bang, not a whimper.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Henry Wong But as the film builds – staggers, really – to its conclusion, it is clear that the director has made something undeniably effective.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Blink Twice (2024) Henry Wong The resort’s smiling, mostly mute staff are reminiscent of countless horrors, but most obviously Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning Get Out.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Wicked (2024) Henry Wong You never once have a sense of place in any of these worlds, not in the spinning halls of Shiz or the balconies of the Emerald City, which leaves you feeling like you’re stranded on a movie set: the lights are on, but nobody’s home.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) Henry Wong Throughout all this monkey business – I know they’re different but this is my conclusion, let me have it – the most intriguing tension is between Mae and Noa, one that the film would have done well to explore more fully.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) Henry Wong Dunst is terrific, cruising through the alarming, escalating, actually-too-much violence with a permanent shrug.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Henry Wong Perhaps it is a masterstroke of Safdie to hide such a small story amid all the theatrics, but you may wish that he had dreamed not so much bigger but a little weirder.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Henry Wong The big-screen adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, which tells the story the Shakespeare family’s life, is a handsome, grounded affair.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Henry Wong Three films in, that formula is fraying. The quips come as thick and fast as any Marvel film; the detailed explanations are very self-satisfied; there’s very little depth to the ballooning cast.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Miranda Collinge Oscar Isaac's performance is so gloriously overblown and big, he’s giving Elordi’s monster a healthy run for his money
Posted Nov 16, 2025  Edit critic review
A Different Man (2024) Henry Wong I enjoyed the chaos, which gleefully shows that life can be strange, unsatisfying, wild. And Schimberg is wise enough to know that for every plot twist, it really helps to have a really good punchline.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Room Next Door (2024) Henry Wong Even the seasons are off in this movie, with snow falling in the wrong months: evidence of a climate in crisis or simply one of Almodóvar’s whims? Whatever the answer, it looks damn good. No wonder Martha and Ingrid want to stick around.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Heretic (2024) Henry Wong Grant is great, but the film is a drag. We will always have Paddington 2.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Gladiator II (2024) Henry Wong It’s a shame that, among all that campy drama, the emotional impact is minimal: the story is simply so obvious, Lucius’ virtues so pure, and his journey to success so unchallenged that the ending arrives with a shrug, rather than an imperial thumbs up.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
September 5 (2024) Henry Wong The film is too scared of saying the wrong thing that it does not say anything interesting at all. It is a Wikipedia entry caught on camera.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Warfare (2025) Henry Wong A torn-off limb, misplaced weapons, unrecognisable bodies. It is the closest to frontline action many of us are likely to get. Thank god, but the glimpse is electrifying.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Miranda Collinge Paul Thomas Anderson’s smart, comic, knotty, emotionally charged chase movie might just be a masterpiece
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught Stealing (2025) Miranda Collinge Might it be that in this somewhat unfamiliar genre, Aronofsky is, like Austin Butler's Hank, in surprisingly over his head?
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Conclave (2024) Henry Wong Conclave, with just enough creative license, has lifted the curtain on proceedings, revealing that it is quite simply one big popularity contest, is it any wonder so many of us cannot look away? Just call it Pope Idol.
Posted Aug 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Henry Wong Anderson’s flourishes make the film come alive both with a storybook sweetness and some look-away moments of gore. It is frequently invigorating.
Posted Aug 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Challengers (2024) Henry Wong Thank god Guadagnino leans into the sport’s sex appeal. This is a man who relishes spoiled peaches, human hearts, short shorts, and has now assembled three of Hollywood’s most buzzy actors for a two-hour endorphin rush.
Posted Aug 11, 2025  Edit critic review
American Fiction (2023) Miranda Collinge I can honestly say that I haven’t laughed as much at a movie for months – no, years! – as I did while watching Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, American Fiction.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) Miranda Collinge It’s not the most biting satire of the privileged and the pretty, but it nevertheless builds to an of-the-times conclusion that is nifty and satisfying.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Catherine Called Birdy (2022) Miranda Collinge It's about a spunky teenage girl in the 1200s who is navigating the classic stuff of teenage girldom: puberty, friendships, parents, and being married off to an old, rich and corporeally repulsive man in order to save her family from financial ruin.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Triangle of Sadness (2022) Miranda Collinge Östlund’s darkly comic film pulls approximately zero punches as it exposes the venality of the upper echelons of modern society, as you might expect. But rather than just point out their baseness, he’s going to make them – and us – suffer.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Last Flight Home (2022) Miranda Collinge It might be a hard sell, but for those who can bear to think a little deeper about the nature of existence – and the end of existence – the rewards are rich.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Red Herring (2023) Miranda Collinge Of course there’s pain, and fear, and deep, deep sadness. How could there not be. But not as much of it as you’d expect; maybe because Vincent isn’t facing it properly, or maybe, as he argues, because it’s not the kind of film he set out to make.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Spaceman (2024) Miranda Collinge For whatever reason, everyone in this film seems to have been instructed to speak with the lethargic, hypnotic delivery of a depressed masseuse.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Drive-Away Dolls (2024) Miranda Collinge It almost feels uptight – nay, frigid! – not to roll with the rollicking mood; but what if you just don’t – just can’t! – find it funny?
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Miranda Collinge In some sections the pace – like Elizabeth’s physical form, as she pays the corporeal price for abusing the experiment – starts to sag. The ending, when it finally comes, is drawn-out, but it is also outrageous and monstrous and gloriously silly.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Maestro (2023) Miranda Collinge Maestro explores the nuances of the Bernsteins’ unusual relationship with a care and a thoughtfulness that is rare in the movies these days – and even more so in biopics, which so often feel compelled to swing for hagiography or hack job.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Zone of Interest (2023) Miranda Collinge The Zone of Interest is a brilliantly conceived, disturbingly disjointed film and it will stay with you long after it’s done.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Piece By Piece (2024) Miranda Collinge It’s an efficient little movie that has plenty of dazzle and charm, even if the more nuanced, less plasticky version of the story stays firmly in the toy-box.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Miranda Collinge The vampire could pull out all the tricks in its scariness arsenal – and it does – and you will look at it with the impassivity of a six-year-old girl at the zoo, studying a silverback gorilla through the glass while licking a lollypop.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) Miranda Collinge For an actor with a rep for doing buttoned-up, Nicole Kidman's portrayal of Romy’s sexual awakening is outrageously brave – I can’t help but take my hat (and only my hat) off to her.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Miranda Collinge This tightly constructed sequel though, with its energetic, fondly nostalgic direction and a reassuringly high-calibre cast, comes with new ideas and enough thought-provoking surprises to allow just a small amount of hope.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Henry Wong For diehard fans, there is definitely enough to pique interest in Marvel’s upcoming phase. For the rest of us, you might find yourself wishing to spend more in the Fantastic Four’s sitting room, just hanging with the gang. Overall, I’d call that a win.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
La Chimera (2023) Henry Wong Only when the credits began to roll did I realise that, a little like Arthur on his never ending pursuit, I had been holding my breath, waiting for a moment of discovery.
Posted Jul 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Henry Wong The opening conceit proves a little too on-the-nose: these dinosaurs, no matter what mutations they may be, are wearing awfully thin. The scares are limited, the thrills non-existent.
Posted Jul 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Henry Wong Some neat ideas, though Gunn would do well to follow his more minimal instincts to tell this particular story. Superman has to save the world, of course, but he also has to get the girl.
Posted Jul 20, 2025  Edit critic review
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