2/5 | Eddington(2025) | Raphael Abraham | What it boils down to is a big-screen amplification of a billion “WTF is going on?!” posts rather than any kind of coherent response to them. Posted May 16, 2025 |
5/5 | What They Found(2025) | Dan Einav | While the footage speaks for itself, the commentary provided by Lewis and Lawrie provides a rare insight into what it felt like to see the unimaginable first-hand. Posted May 15, 2025 |
5/5 | Good One(2024) | Danny Leigh | But the familiar path to all-is-forgiven group hugs is the stuff of that less interesting film. This one has teeth. Posted May 15, 2025 |
4/5 | Deaf President Now!(2025) | Danny Leigh | No two signs look exactly the same. Such is one memorable lesson from the slick but powerful documentary Deaf President Now! Posted May 15, 2025 |
3/5 | Hallow Road(2025) | Danny Leigh | Even with two stars, Hallow Road’s economy of scale recalls the rash of single-actor films made after the 2008 financial crash. Posted May 15, 2025 |
4/5 | The Marching Band(2024) | Danny Leigh | Warm and sure-footed, the film has the feel of a richly satisfying meal in an excellent neighbourhood bistro. Old world pleasures of character and story are generously apportioned. Posted May 15, 2025 |
3/5 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning(2025) | Danny Leigh | This time round, everything is simply less fun. Callbacks to Missions past hint at elegy. Posted May 14, 2025 |
3/5 | The Assessment(2024) | Jonathan Romney | Written by Mrs & Mr Thomas (aka Nell Garfath-Cox and Dave Thomas), the film starts from a sharply focused premise, before turning increasingly wayward; it ends up feeling like a Black Mirror episode extended long beyond its punchline. Posted May 09, 2025 |
4/5 | The Surfer(2024) | Jonathan Romney | The Surfer is a highly original piece that works on its own increasingly crazed terms. Posted May 09, 2025 |
3/5 | The Wedding Banquet(2025) | Danny Leigh | Director Andrew Ahn makes the story his own, but also hints at three decades of changing social attitudes for those who remember the original film (or indeed the 1990s). Posted May 09, 2025 |
3/5 | The Uninvited(2024) | Danny Leigh | Despite the haunted glamour, though, The Uninvited plays less like David Lynch than a night out at the theatre. The framing is tight, the tempo brisk, the dialogue peppy. Posted May 09, 2025 |
2/5 | Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade(2025) | Jonathan Romney | But at 140 minutes, the film is overextended and editorially slipshod. Posted May 03, 2025 |
2/5 | Parthenope(2024) | Jonathan Romney | Narratively, Parthenope is a sprawling mess of off-the-wall digressions... Posted May 03, 2025 |
2/5 | Another Simple Favor(2025) | Jonathan Romney | Kendrick and Lively put on an honourable show, but can’t disguise a certain fatigue at carrying a narrative that barely rises above a creaky Scooby-Doo level. Posted May 03, 2025 |
4/5 | Thunderbolts*(2025) | Jonathan Romney | In this sense, Thunderbolts* comes within an inch of being the Barbie of the MCU. Posted Apr 29, 2025 |
3/5 | An Army of Women(2024) | Jonathan Romney | The film is clear-sighted and involving, but at 84 minutes feels a little too condensed to get into its topic as deeply as it merits. Nevertheless, an eye-opener. Posted Apr 25, 2025 |
4/5 | Havoc(2025) | Jonathan Romney | Havoc is brutal, cynical, ultimately a little repetitive, but done with absolute expertise and brio — while the dark-city atmospherics (grit, graffiti, neon-lit sidewalk steam) are laid on with real elegance. Posted Apr 25, 2025 |
5/5 | April(2024) | Jonathan Romney | You could easily imagine April screened in a gallery as video art: part of its brilliance is in the tension it maintains between storytelling and a hardcore commitment to the imagistic. Posted Apr 25, 2025 |
3/5 | The Friend(2024) | Jonathan Romney | It’s a little stiff, a little too earnest and tasteful, that bit too conscious of its own pedigree poise. Posted Apr 25, 2025 |
4/5 | Pangolin: Kulu's Journey(2025) | Dan Einav | The story of man and creature growing together is uplifting and yet, at times, both wearingly earnest and overly sentimental. Posted Apr 22, 2025 |
4/5 | Pink Floyd at Pompeii(1972) | Ludovic Hunter-Tilney | ...this fascinating mish-mash of a film captures [Pink Floyd] at a crucial juncture, moving from psych-rock trailblazers in the European underground to prog superstars in US arenas. The head-trip still works. Posted Apr 22, 2025 |
2/5 | The Penguin Lessons(2024) | Jonathan Romney | Cattaneo has it made as far as Coogan’s palmiped co-star is involved: throw in a few quizzical beak-raised reaction shots and you can’t fail. But the combination of farce, stark political reality and a shameless ahh factor is decidedly awkward. Posted Apr 17, 2025 |
4/5 | Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story(2024) | Jonathan Romney | ... A moving, insightful tribute to O’Brien as a formidable writer and a woman of remarkable complexity. Posted Apr 17, 2025 |
3/5 | Sinners(2025) | Danny Leigh | Genres collide as fangs find necks. Jim Crow Mississippi is filled with Klan robes and cotton fields, but is also just one part of a heady fable of past and future. Posted Apr 17, 2025 |
3/5 | Warfare(2025) | Danny Leigh | You could condense the story into a sentence, but Garland and Mendoza have such a taut hold on the material, seconds take on the drama of epics. Posted Apr 17, 2025 |
| The Wedding Banquet(1993) | Nigel Andrews | Writer-director Ang Lee scarcely sounds a false note. Posted Apr 15, 2025 |
| Brannigan(1975) | Nigel Andrews | Neither the script nor the direction succeeds in lending much sense of the proceedings. Posted Apr 12, 2025 |
2/5 | The Amateur(2025) | Jonathan Romney | This is a mechanical, sluggish affair, so dated it’s more like Bourne Yesterday. Posted Apr 11, 2025 |
4/5 | Holy Cow(2024) | Jonathan Romney | This is not necessarily an outstanding or unusual production as contemporary French realism goes, but it is robust, enjoyable and unsentimental — the good stuff, raw and unpasteurised. Posted Apr 11, 2025 |
5/5 | One to One: John & Yoko(2024) | Jonathan Romney | Despite the grimness of that political moment, the film maps a brief idyllic parenthesis of idealism and revitalised possibility after The Beatles split. Posted Apr 11, 2025 |
4/5 | The Return(2024) | Jonathan Romney | The Return is not quite a classic, but it serves the spirit of the classics imposingly well. Posted Apr 11, 2025 |
| Supervixens(1975) | Nigel Andrews | The result is very funny, exuberantly vulgar, and highly recommended. Posted Apr 11, 2025 |
| Capone(1975) | Richard Combs | Capone settles for hanging everything on one star performance. Posted Apr 08, 2025 |
2/5 | Mr. Burton(2025) | Jonathan Romney | [Jones] can signify more with a gently furrowed brow than most performers can at full fury — which very nearly makes this mostly bland film into an implicit essay on contrasting acting styles. Posted Apr 07, 2025 |
3/5 | Death of a Unicorn(2025) | Jonathan Romney | Death of a Unicorn offers a light menu of macabre pleasures — sometimes too obvious, occasionally a touch too mystical to be entirely palatable. But the gougings are delivered expertly. Posted Apr 07, 2025 |
2/5 | A Minecraft Movie(2025) | Jonathan Romney | There’s some quirky visual invention here, but it soon devolves into a mess of explosions, pratfalls and creaky innuendo. Posted Apr 05, 2025 |
4/5 | War Paint: Women at War(2025) | Danny Leigh | One priority, then, is simply to spotlight the overlooked. But the film is always deftly broadening its remit. The definition of war artist itself is put subtly in play. Posted Mar 28, 2025 |
4/5 | La Cocina(2024) | Jonathan Romney | Unashamedly heavy on the seasoning, certainly, but a feast nonetheless. Posted Mar 28, 2025 |
4/5 | The End(2024) | Danny Leigh | The performances sing with or without music, the cast sharp as sushi knives. Posted Mar 28, 2025 |
5/5 | Santosh(2024) | Jonathan Romney | As well as working rivetingly as a procedural thriller and a psychological study, Santosh has a hard, documentary-like edge, exploring Indian social phenomena with intense analytical focus. Posted Mar 24, 2025 |
3/5 | Flow(2024) | Jonathan Romney | Flow shows both formidable technical brilliance and ingenuity, not least because it dispenses with dialogue — quizzical mews, chirrups and rhythmic doggy breaths replacing words. Posted Mar 24, 2025 |
3/5 | The Alto Knights(2025) | Danny Leigh | There is a real story somewhere here, but Levinson seems unsure what to do with it, and often only half interested. Posted Mar 24, 2025 |
3/5 | Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson(2025) | Dan Einav | With a big-budget Hollywood biopic, Michael, due for release in October, it seems only right that Leaving Neverland 2 reminds us of the serious accusations skirted by these Jackson estate-approved productions. Posted Mar 24, 2025 |
3/5 | Disney's Snow White(2025) | Danny Leigh | More generally, the tone is risk-averse to the point of blandness. Posted Mar 19, 2025 |
4/5 | Antidote(2024) | Jonathan Romney | Antidote makes cogent, compelling use of a narratively driven investigative format. Grozev’s unswayed commitment to unearthing hidden truths would be awe-inspiring even without the perils involved. Posted Mar 18, 2025 |
4/5 | Sister Midnight(2024) | Jonathan Romney | But for all its abrasive agitation, Sister Midnight is also oddly poignant — and quite beautiful... Posted Mar 18, 2025 |
2/5 | Opus(2025) | Jonathan Romney | Opus proves a shakily paced and altogether hackneyed media satire spiked with wilful eccentricities (a puppet show about Billie Holiday, a yurt full of oysters). Posted Mar 18, 2025 |
3/5 | Black Bag(2025) | Jonathan Romney | In reality, this London-set spy drama is a coolly paced affair that luxuriates in its own cerebral suaveness. Posted Mar 18, 2025 |
2/5 | Chaos: The Manson Murders(2025) | Jonathan Romney | An Errol Morris film seriously grappling with the current epidemic of conspiracy theory would be worth watching, but Chaos is hardly that film. Posted Mar 12, 2025 |
4/5 | On Falling(2024) | Danny Leigh | The mood in On Falling is a shade of blue, precisely rendered in small gestures and fleeting moments. As Aurora drifts into ever deeper solitude, the film has the economy of a haiku. Posted Mar 12, 2025 |
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