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The Drama (2026) Wendy Ide Borgli’s sharp writing achieves a precarious balance of provocation and bad taste. And the craft of the picture is impressive. But the film’s wit, daring and overall success is largely owed to the formidable performances by Zendaya and Pattinson.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Wendy Ide The problem is not that it’s messy, but that it’s stultifyingly dull.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Kim Novak's Vertigo (2025) Wendy Ide It should be fascinating. Unfortunately, the self-absorbed Novak has very little insight to impart.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Women (2025) Wendy Ide There's something rather joyless and dated about this picture. It's a sex comedy viewed through a feminist lens that still manages to show its female characters as neurotic, brittle and unstable.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Night Stage (2025) Wendy Ide What makes it distinctive is the way it depicts a collision of two worlds... Plus, there's the not-insignificant detail that the two leads are unfeasibly attractive, with enormous chemistry.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Fuze (2025) Wendy Ide Notwithstanding a couple of silly moments, this is an enjoyable if pulpy watch.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Movie (1979) Philip French ...The Muppet Movie is an artistic failure.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Towering Inferno (1974) Russell Davies All in all, a better fright than Earthquake, and very nearly as hokey.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards (2026) Barbara Ellen Despite the royal overkill, there’s little sense here of a symbol of establishment power toppled. It makes an effort to be prestige, but the drama is ultimately brought down by its sensationalist instincts.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) Wendy Ide If you can get past some rather overegged child-actor performances, it’s an enjoyable enough option for Easter holiday family entertainment.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Last Blossom (2025) Wendy Ide It’s a lovely picture, notable for its emotional sophistication, elegantly unshowy graphic style and especially its use of music.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) Wendy Ide Below the Clouds is a rewarding, wryly funny mosaic of a turbulent city, flanked by volcanoes and rich with stories.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
DJ Ahmet (2025) Wendy Ide It’s a rich depiction of a traditional Yörük community -- Turkic tribal people -- that feels authentically lived in rather than an ethnographic curio, as well as a fresh coming-of-age film.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Splitsville (2025) Wendy Ide The problem is this exhaustingly open-minded yet curiously dated rom-non-monogamy-com is lacking the chemistry and comedic bite needed to make it distinctive.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Prosecutors (2025) Wendy Ide The film is extraordinary: the measured pace exerts an ever-tightening chokehold of tension, and the period details are brilliantly evoked.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Pal Joey (1957) C.A. Lejeune Some of the tunes, particularly "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," hang on to the memory of whether you want them or not, and I suppose the benefit of hearing such things professionally sung is the main justification of this picture.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) Russell Davies Matching cynical cracks with the kids is a gift to [Walter Matthau], because it gives him an extra range of reactions, those of surprise at their sharpness, to enlarge upon in between growls.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
La Grazia (2025) Wendy Ide It’s a pensive, soulful work elevated by Servillo’s superb performance. But the director’s penchant for wistful shots of the leader in various scenic locations means there are long stretches of the film in which nothing of consequence is happening.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Wendy Ide This is a curious, unsettling picture, with parallels to A Clockwork Orange: in this meeting of monsters, Chris is every bit as repellent and inhuman as Tommy at his rampaging worst.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Wendy Ide While there’s an element of sympathy for this desperate, misguided man, Austin Kolodney’s caustic screenplay is laced with dark humour, much of it at the protagonist’s expense.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Wendy Ide What’s not to like? Well, there’s the fact that Project Hail Mary so desperately wants to be loved. For all the heart-warming button-pushing, there’s something off-putting about a picture so aggressively feelgood.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Russell Davies Even a mock-terrible picture needs careful writing.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Barbara Ellen The entire project feels behind the curve -- straggling previous documentaries, including last year's Men of the Manosphere from James Blake.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Wendy Ide With How to Make a Killing, Powell, who has thus far coasted on impeccable bone structure and affable cheesiness -- he always seems to be on the brink of winking at the camera and pulling finger guns -- may have finally run out of momentum.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
The Tasters (2025) Wendy Ide The picture’s main strength, aside from the meticulous costume and production design, is its thoughtful depiction of the dynamics of female friendship at a time of crisis.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Wendy Ide While not quite as brain-atrophying as Regretting You, Reminders of Him is still pretty dismal.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) Wendy Ide The rough-and-ready aesthetic of this account of a grassroots act of resistance -- it is largely sourced from camera phone footage -- belies the film’s dexterous editing and elegant interweaving of social history and ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Show Me Love (1998) Philip French This is a modest, amusing, truthful picture with two delightful central performances.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Philip French It is messily and often perfunctorily handled, the humour is now more arch than ironic, and the images lack the clean, hard look that made RoboCop resemble a comic-strip epic.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother's Pride (2025) Wendy Ide This is an underdog tale straining so hard to be endearing that it’s more likely to pull a muscle than tug a heartstring.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Wendy Ide With its muscular music choices, slick CGI and a gruesomely inventive use for a yard full of stolen pigs, the film doesn’t break new ground, but it should sate the bloodlust of fans.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Hoppers (2026) Wendy Ide After an uneven run of high-concept science fiction and fantasy stories -- Lightyear, Elio, Elemental, Inside Out 2 -- Pixar has come back down to Earth with this inventive eco-adventure. And it’s a delight.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) Wendy Ide This gorgeously debauched film amounts to a chaotic, an uneven but oddly beautiful collision of ideas, all captured by an agitated camera as electrically charged as the life force that reanimates the bride herself.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) C.A. Lejeune The scene of this meeting in Copenhagen is the high-spot of the film, beautifully played by Ingrid Bergman and Helen Hayes.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Phantom Lady (1944) C.A. Lejeune American murder mystery, which sometimes seems to have ideas above its station. The acting, though, restores the balance.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Philip French [RoboCop] use special effects in a purposive, witty manner and has an outrageous sense of humour.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Penelope Gilliatt The book observes the streak of cold brutality that is often present in the romantic; the film merely sees the vivacity and sweetness of Audrey Hepburn.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Wendy Ide This is a piece of extraordinarily visceral film-making by Laxe.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Wendy Ide While it is unlikely to tell you much you don’t already know, this is a must-see for Presley fans and a boisterously enjoyable watch even for Elvis agnostics.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Scream 7 (2026) Wendy Ide The true test of a Scream movie is the quality of the villain behind the Ghostface mask. By that metric, this instalment is thin gruel indeed.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Wendy Ide The story might be familiar but the dazzling animation makes it well worth a return visit.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Philip French In its visual style and uniformly excellent performances this exquisitely poised film captures Austen's realism, detachment and moral irony, and Emma Thompson's screenplay is a masterful exercise in adaptation.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Wasteman (2025) Wendy Ide McMau’s lean, light-footed direction combines handheld camera with phone footage to visceral and nerve-racking effect.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Wendy Ide A raggedly plotted adventure that feels like a knockoff of a middling Black Mirror episode. A film about the perils of technology for people who are intimidated by the control panel on their toaster.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Cold Storage (2026) Wendy Ide What the film lacks in budget (some of the special effects are on the schlocky side), it makes up for in propulsive energy and sizzling chemistry between the leads.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Wendy Ide A blunt-edged satire that doesn’t always seem clear about the point it is trying to make, or to have much of a grasp of pacing and structure. But Charli XCX is a captivating presence who has no problem skewering the absurdities of celebrity.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Wendy Ide Inventive, needling use of sound and the blurring of reality and fantasy take us under the skin of a woman at breaking point. It’s an impressive, immersive piece of film-making -- and a profoundly uncomfortable watch.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Canadian Bacon (1995) Philip French The film is only sporadically funny, though it never pulls its punches.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mortal Kombat (1995) Philip French This picture is based on a best-selling video game, though I could believe that it was inspired by Jayne Austin's novel "Sententiousness and Insensitivity."
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Nine Months (1995) Philip French Dull, frenetic and forced, it's one of the unfunniest comedies of recent years.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
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