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Brian Viner

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Primate (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Amid all the extreme gore there is genuine suspense.” – Daily Mail (UK) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 62% 3/5 EDIT “The strings and percussion sections of an unseen orchestra do relentless battle to see which can more forcefully remind us we're watching an exciting action thriller.” – Daily Mail (UK) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Kangaroo (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Kangaroo is an engaging, bittersweet and indeed bouncy tale.” – Daily Mail (UK) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Linklater sets the scene and tells the story with so much joy that it will reel you in, whether or not you are familiar with Godard’s work.” – Daily Mail (UK) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 2/5 EDIT “Long before the end, Is This Thing On? had turned me off.” – Daily Mail (UK) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 69% 2/5 EDIT “It's all very nicely and tastefully done, and modestly touching, but a little dirge-like. ” – Daily Mail (UK) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% 4/5 EDIT “The story does not unfold as I expected, but then grief rarely does. Which might be the whole point. Whatever, it’s a very worthwhile film, with a superb performance from Foy at its heart.” – Daily Mail (UK) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 5/5 EDIT “It is superbly acted throughout by a splendid cast.” – Daily Mail (UK) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 3/5 EDIT “There are glimmers of suspense as we try to guess who the bent cops might be, because the formula decrees that there must be at least one.” – Daily Mail (UK) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Almost all the performances in this film are very good. It's the narrative that hits the odd bum note.” – Daily Mail (UK) Jan 5, 2026 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 3/5 EDIT “The Housemaid is worth seeing for anyone who likes their thrillers high in saturated fat.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “While touching on dark themes such as antisemitism and even the Holocaust, Safdie has an almost indecent amount of fun with all this.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2/5 EDIT “Cameron overdoes it. The narrative becomes turgid and repetitive. ” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Excruciatingly tense, this is a brilliantly assured directorial debut from Alex Russell.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “Filmmaker Mike P. Nelson injects some welcome twists, including a Hallmark style romance involving Ruby Modine (daughter of Matthew). And if his holiday horror falls short as regards humour and scares, be assured it delivers sackloads of gore.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 23% 1/5 EDIT “The story-telling is an absolute dog’s breakfast.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Fackham Hall (2025) 74% 2/5 EDIT “On the whole Fackham Hall, like a flatulent family retriever in the drawing-room, is best ignored.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 66% 2/5 EDIT “This is all very capably acted, but in the end the story is perturbingly glib in the way it addresses such weighty themes.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 13, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% 3/5 EDIT “The few crass and clunky lines of dialogue might have been swerved by a more mature writer, but they don't stop it being a creditable effort by a fellow so young, who very knowingly tackles grief, sibling dynamics and general family dysfunction head on.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 13, 2025 Full Review Testimony (2025) 4/5 EDIT “The shocking story has been dramatised in films such as Philomena (2013) and Small Things Like These (2024) but it needed telling in documentary form, and Testimony does that compellingly.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 13, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 2/5 EDIT “An overwrought exercise in biblical-horror which doesn’t name Jesus, Mary and Joseph, but we’re left in no doubt that’s who they are.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 2, 2025 Full Review The Thing with Feathers (2025) 46% 3/5 EDIT “Cumberbatch acting with every sinew is always worth the price of admission.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Craig is fabulous, but even he is eclipsed by the superb Josh O'Connor.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “The acting is wonderful, but really this rather theatrical film is all about the dialogue: a bit smart-alecky at times but crafted with manifest respect for our intelligence, which always feels flattering.” – Daily Mail (UK) Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Amid all the violence and gore, Road To Revenge is exhilaratingly, laugh-out-loud bonkers, with spectacular stunts involving planes, trains and automobiles… and tanks.” – Daily Mail (UK) Nov 24, 2025 Full Review
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