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Benjamin Lee

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undertone (2025) 87% 2/5 EDIT “It’s not that total originality is expected at this particular moment, but given the genre’s overcrowd, it’s hard to see what pushes Undertone above the noise.” – Guardian Jan 29, 2026 Full Review The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) 100% 3/5 EDIT “It’s an earnest tribute to a lot of things -- a city, a time, a genre, a mentality, an actor in Turturro -- and while we’ve definitely been here before, it’s nice to come back.” – Guardian Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Weight (2026) 95% 3/5 EDIT “It’s carried through by an all-in Hawke who is really put through the wringer, arguably his most physically gruelling role to date, a muscular and entirely persuasive performance that continues his winning streak. ” – Guardian Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 79% 3/5 EDIT “A parody that’s not really parodying anything in particular. Everyone is committed to the bit though, whatever the bit might actually be, and the fun that they’re all having is infectious enough to sweep us along too.” – Guardian Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Frank & Louis (2026) 89% 3/5 EDIT “Morgan is the perfect example of a recognisable, but not widely famous character actor who has deserved a bigger, better chance... The heart-wrenching strength of his performance feels like enough to edge him into new, possibly awards-worthy territory. ” – Guardian Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Union County (2026) 100% 3/5 EDIT “If Union County serves as proof that Poulter deserves more substantive work and shines a light on people in a remarkable system, then it’s more than worth the choice to go docudrama over drama. But I still craved more of the real people.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Wicker (2026) 93% 2/5 EDIT “Ultimately, there’s too much here that doesn’t gel, a tonally uneven mix of mostly unfunny bawdy humour, dark fantasy and unlikely romance, too much wood but not enough fire.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 92% 4/5 EDIT “It seems that the chance to watch a genuinely funny and uncommonly intelligent comedy for adults is an invite we have all been waiting for.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Gallerist (2026) 55% 2/5 EDIT “A talented cast put to waste and a director freed from the shackles of superhero cinema not finding her way back to the real world. This one is dead on arrival.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Leviticus (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Even at a wonderfully concise 86 minutes, the last act runs out of steam a little, but then Chiarella manages to stick the landing quite perfectly.” – Guardian Jan 25, 2026 Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 86% 2/5 EDIT “It’s a 90-minute romp that feels longer than that, increasingly unexciting hijinks that are never as amusing or as propulsive as they should be. I Want Your Sex wants our shock, our arousal and our debate but it barely gets our attention.” – Guardian Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Buddy (2026) 81% 2/5 EDIT “With the poor child actors forced to stay in well-observed yet progressively grating Nickelodeon schtick, it’s hard to feel all that bothered about their survival.” – Guardian Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Carousel (2026) 73% 2/5 EDIT “The world is not kind to films like Carousel at this very moment and while I would love to see this particular subgenre flourish in the way it used to back in the 90s and 00s, it’s hard to muster up much in the way of strong feelings here.” – Guardian Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 3/5 EDIT “The Rip is ultimately a game for the boys, though, and taken as a piece of boisterous macho pulp, it’s a propulsive enough four-beers-in watch. A movie to be enjoyed on Friday night and forgotten all about by Saturday morning.” – Guardian Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Roberts, who also directed hit shark thriller 47 Metres Down and its superior follow-up, is mostly at his savviest and most ruthlessly efficient here, a confident leveling up for a genre film-maker finding his sweet spot.” – Guardian Jan 9, 2026 Full Review People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 76% 2/5 EDIT “It’s a film about wanderlust and romance that should be a breezy sojourn for those of us who need it right now. Why then does it feel like such a slog?” – Guardian Jan 9, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Hilditch mercifully avoids drowning his film in drab self-seriousness. Yes, it’s a zombie survival thriller that’s also about grief -- but it’s also just a zombie survival thriller, albeit one with less carnage than some might expect. ” – Guardian Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “Since the film it’s based on wasn’t all that good to begin with, there is nothing sacrilegious about yet another remake but there’s also no real point to it either. No one will be compelled to protest this time -- they will be too indifferent to care.” – Guardian Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Oh. What. Fun. (2025) 35% 2/5 EDIT “It doesn’t take long to realise that the packaging of Oh. What. Fun. is ultimately less about the creation of an even mildly entertaining festive film and more about the marketing of a soulless Q4 Amazon product. ” – Guardian Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Jingle Bell Heist (2025) 75% 3/5 EDIT “While there’s nothing all that remarkable about the streamer’s latest festive effort, crime caper turned romcom Jingle Bell Heist, there’s just about enough to give it an edge over its more anemic peers. ” – Guardian Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 2/5 EDIT “It’s all so hard to define not because it’s too brave and original to fit into the system, but because it’s never all that clear that anyone involved knows what the hell they’re making.” – Guardian Nov 14, 2025 Full Review A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025) 56% 2/5 EDIT “Predictably, specificity subsides and broader, physical humour takes over, all of it unfunny not only for its lack of originality but for how it forces a mostly adequate cast into outsized cartoon acting that they can’t convincingly pull off. ” – Guardian Nov 12, 2025 Full Review In Your Dreams (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “It’s not up to [Pixar's] one-time standard, but it’s more engaging than the average streaming cartoon and a damn sight better than what Netflix gave us last year, the remarkably ugly Spellbound.” – Guardian Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Shelby Oaks (2023) 55% 1/5 EDIT “There is no amount of late-stage patchwork that can hide what still feels awkwardly unfinished, a cheaply cobbled together head-scratcher that really doesn’t feel ready for a wide theatrical release. ” – Guardian Oct 22, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% 3/5 EDIT “As deeply unnecessary 90s nostalgia plays go, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is one of the less egregious examples of late, a serviceably entertaining retread that manages to add enough tweaks without losing the basic pleasures of the original.” – Guardian Oct 22, 2025 Full Review
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