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3.5/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) James Croot A taut tale reminiscent of The Walking Dead or our own post-apocalyptic antipodean horror The Quiet Earth, it deals in effective chills, rather than full-on undead action.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Shelter (2026) Graeme Tuckett Although we've seen Jason Statham in variations of this film about 20 times over, he can play this role with a kind of zen-like simplicity now.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Graeme Tuckett When the film catches fire - in the scenes between Arnett and Dern, and also in a couple of beautifully calibrated moments between Arnett and Ciarán Hinds, as Alex's taciturn dad - it turns into something quite special.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Send Help (2026) James Croot At the heart of Send Help’s success though is a quite magnificent performance from McAdams. As she proved in Game Night, the Canadian’s ability to mix action with comedy has been sorely under-utilised.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Choral (2025) Graeme Tuckett The Choral is a handful of good scenes, a couple of decent performances and a few great songs, in search of a coherent film. But mostly, not finding one.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Graeme Tuckett This is a wonderful film. The story unfurls in unexpected and raucously comical ways, even though the film is deeply moving and occasionally quite terrifying. ⁠ ⁠
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Wrecking Crew (2026) James Croot Extremely violent, predictably plotted and more than occasionally puerile it may be, it is hard though to dislike a movie with such swagger, chutzpah and the most evocative use of Air Supply since 2010’s Animal Kingdom.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) James Croot While somewhat tonally different to the likes of Good Will Hunting, Dogma, The Last Duel and Air, there’s no doubting this trades heavily on the bromantic chemistry between the two Cambridge, Massachusetts-raised 50-somethings.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Nouvelle Vague (2025) James Croot At times, this entertaining dramatisation of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 cinematic debut Breathless feels more like The Disaster Artist or Ed Wood than Mank.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Graeme Tuckett The Secret Agent is stuffed full of spellbinding performances and some exceptional plotting and writing, all shot and soundtracked like some lost classic that should be sitting on every cinephile's shelf next to The Conversation and Point Blank.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Graeme Tuckett Marty Supreme is just a hell of a ride. It is breathlessly paced, sometimes frightening, blackly hilarious and probably destined to be remembered as an early classic of the 21st century.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Grow (2025) Graeme Tuckett Grow is loads of fun. It gets across the screen at a good pace, the writing is sharp enough to blur most of the contrivances, and the cast are all top-shelf comedic talent.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hamnet (2025) Graeme Tuckett Hamnet is a beautifully made and performed piece of work. Yes, it is contrived and manipulative, but it is still a film that needs to be watched and committed to.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Graeme Tuckett DaCosta and her crew, working from a script that packs in ideas and set pieces that Garland has maybe been dreaming of for years, have delivered a lean, cruel, blatantly satiric and darkly funny movie.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Graeme Tuckett Song Sung Blue is a well-made and affectionate film with its heart in the right place. It sticks closely enough to the genuine chronology to occasionally feel a bit lumpy and haphazard. Which I like.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Graeme Tuckett The script feels like a response to a ChatGPT prompt, the animation is mostly lifeless and the subtle, clever and affectionate in-jokes and gags that once made SpongeBob so indelibly special and beloved are missing in action.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Graeme Tuckett This is a superb film, warm, funny as hell when it needs to be, and heartbreaking when it has earned the right. But most of all, Sentimental Value is insightful and understanding about love, family and loss.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rental Family (2025) James Croot This is a heartfelt, thought-provoking, upbeat story featuring a terrific turn from newcomer Gorman and anchored by a fabulous performance from the resurgent Fraser.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Marching Band (2024) Graeme Tuckett Courcol packs a lot of story into his 104 minutes, but My Brothers Band always feels like it is unfolding at exactly the right pace.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Housemaid (2025) Graeme Tuckett Even though it ticks a few boxes and Seyfried is trying her damndest, this is too long-winded and flabbily assembled to ever join the classics of the genre.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Family McMullen (2025) James Croot Family offers undemanding, entertaining viewing, a few laughs, engaging characters and a mix of cynicism and heart that’s truly hard not to like.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) James Croot It might not exactly be cheery Christmas viewing, but Goodbye June certainly offers plenty of food for thought and makes for a compelling watch.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) James Croot 2025’s answer to Spirited, The Naughty Nine or Hot Frosty, this European misadventure by the trilling trio is the unexpected surprise/breakout hit of this year’s line-up.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Tinsel Town (2025) James Croot Misunderstandings, pomposity and double entendres abound.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Oh. What. Fun. (2025) James Croot Thankfully it’s closer in sensibilities and laughs-per-minute to Happiest Season or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation than Christmas With the Kranks or The Family Stone.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
My Secret Santa (2025) James Croot Fans of physical comedy, function disasters and wardrobe malfunctions will lap this up, while the chemistry between the leads is best described as crackling.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025) James Croot The Alicia Silverstone renaissance continues with the former Clueless and Batman & Robin star front and centre in this predictable, but amiable farce.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Jingle Bell Heist (2025) James Croot A thoroughly enjoyable rom-com that offers something a little different to the traditional festive fare.
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The Family Plan 2 (2025) James Croot Fun, but forgettable action.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Christmas Karma (2025) James Croot The tale’s sometimes pantomime tone undermines the more serious drama around the 1970s expulsion of Indians from Uganda and an immigrant’s struggle for acceptance in Britain.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke (2025) James Croot A fascinating labour of love.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The History of Sound (2025) Graeme Tuckett For the first 45 minutes, this gets across the screen like a film I'd be stopping old friends in the street to recommend. And then, bafflingly, all that promise just evaporates and drifts away in a fug of stultification.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) James Croot From its wordless opening stanza to its awkward silences, depression jokes and strained three-way chats about dog poop, Sometimes offers a meditative look at modern day social anxiety, a melancholy romantic drama and an absorbing Joycian character study.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Eternity (2025) James Croot Tonally, Freyne and his cast are pitch-perfect, delivering just the right combination of romance and cynicism. Expect tears.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Beat the Lotto (2025) Graeme Tuckett Whitaker, thankfully, is far more interested in the personalities of the men involved and the society in which they lived, than he is in the mechanics and the equations of the scheme. And there are some big and engaging characters here.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Ella McCay (2025) Graeme Tuckett Although it is intended to be a portrait of a young woman rising to the top of her profession and overcoming every obstacle put in her way, the script also demeans, patronises and undermines Ella at every turn.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) James Croot The ensemble is superb, with Close and O’Connor the standouts, and although Blanc is late to the party, he’s probably at his best and most thought-provoking here.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Boléro (2024) James Croot With the [Henry] Cavill-esque Personnaz serving up a charismatic, yet complex character, this is a fascinating tale that is well worth seeking out.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Nuremberg (2025) Graeme Tuckett Vanderbilt flounders when he tries to imagine what was happening outside of the courtroom and piles too much of the film's thematic weight on to the shoulders of an actor isn't up to the role.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) James Croot As with Call Me By Your Name and Challengers, Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s latest work is an evocative (ticking clocks and point-of-view shots abound), provocative drama that won’t be to everyone’s taste.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Dead of Winter (2025) James Croot Move over Liam Neeson. On this evidence, there’s a new United Kingdom actor looking to take on the mantle of cinema’s pre-eminent pension-eligible action star.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Die My Love (2025) Graeme Tuckett Lawrence turns in a performance you can put alongside her roles in Winter's Bone, Silver Linings Playbook and Mother!.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Graeme Tuckett Every frame of Zootopia 2 is packed with detail and movement, and all of it looks just right.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Keeper (2025) James Croot Perkins has cited Kubrick and Burton as his directorial inspirations, but Keeper feels far more Shyamalan in tone and feel, while coming across like a lesser version of 2020’s All the Moons.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Jay Kelly (2025) James Croot At once a mediation on father-daughter relationships to rival Interstellar and a portrait of an agent-client friendship that evokes memories of Jerry Maguire, this also terrifically skewers Hollywood and our attitudes towards its stars.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) James Croot It’s unlikely you’ll end up in a puddle of tears by the time the credits roll, but you’ll definitely feel like you’ve witnessed an all-singing, all-dancing Hollywood spectacular.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) James Croot It’s not an easy watch. However, it is undoubtedly compelling and more than occasionally uplifting and hilarious.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) James Croot The subject of an eight-figure deal after its debut at Sundance, it’s easy to see what attracted Netflix to Train Dreams – this is cinematic storytelling at its finest.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Familiar Touch (2024) James Croot There’s a real sense of space and place and authenticity that means this meditative, contemplative, quiet little tale lingers with you long after the credits roll.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Graeme Tuckett There is no magic in this film. It is just a mugging. The writing is lazy, the plot twists are nonsensical, the special effects are shoddy and rushed, and the actors - the old guard anyway - are just going through the contractually obligated motions.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
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