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Deborah Ross

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Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% EDIT “It’s a film about a film, told mostly in the manner of that film, with the same kind of liveliness. It isn’t necessary to watch Breathless first by the way, although why not? ” – The Spectator Jan 29, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% EDIT “It’s a career-best for Foy, who will doubtless win many awards. I hope the unnamed bird gets one too.” – The Spectator Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “The film wants to hug you, rather than unsettle. But there are pluses. It is wonderfully filmed by director Hikari, infusing Tokyo with the most astonishing beauty, and there is a clever twist towards the end.” – The Spectator Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “Mescal, rightly, takes a back seat while Buckley lets rip with the most astounding ferocity. It is ruthlessly manipulative and maybe you will be able to resist. But I’d take a hanky all the same.” – The Spectator Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% EDIT “It stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, who is so sublime that we may even opt to forgive her for How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days and similar.” – The Spectator Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% EDIT “The cast is so formidable it should be a slam-dunk festive weepie. But the characters are, alas, too thinly sketched, while their various trajectories take us into the kind of banal, maudlin territory most suited to a Call The Midwife special. ” – The Spectator Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “For a director of Baumbach’s calibre, it all feels like very low-hanging fruit. That said, it’s not such an ordeal to spend a couple of hours in the company of Clooney as the golden Tuscan sunshine beats down. I found I could cope.” – The Spectator Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% EDIT “It’s one of those films where the stakes don’t appear that high, yet we become so attached to this family and their survival it will all matter a great deal.” – The Spectator Dec 2, 2025 Full Review The Thing with Feathers (2025) 46% EDIT “The film hangs on Cumberbatch giving good anguish and he does give top, five-star anguish but it’s not sufficient to sustain a film that otherwise has barely any plot. ” – The Spectator Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “It’s serviceable rather than inspired, plodding rather than tense, its running time (two and a half hours) trying. (Keep a Red Bull to hand.) It also takes some horrible missteps. Mrs Göring, sympathetic? Please.” – The Spectator Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Haven’t we always been asked to pity the monster? Hasn’t the father/son dynamic always been integral? Things often slip into cliché and sentimentality. Still, it’s aways gorgeous to look at and though it does drag, it’s on Netflix so that’s not a problem.” – The Spectator Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “You certainly get value for money; it smashes together several genres and takes a swipe at everything from capitalism and conglomerates to echo chambers and internet rabbit holes. But whether it adds up to much or has anything to say, also still not sure.” – The Spectator Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “This will doubtless satisfy the completists. But non-completists – I could have named only two of his songs, tops – may wonder if it’s that interesting. ” – The Spectator Oct 24, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “The film never flags, bounding from moments of high tension to ones that are sublime. The comedy, meanwhile, always feels integral. ” – The Spectator Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Dead of Winter (2025) 75% EDIT “It’s well made, tense, fun, and if you’ve longed to see an ordinary, sixty-something-year-old woman brandish a gun or put a claw hammer through someone’s foot you will not be disappointed.” – The Spectator Sep 25, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 37% EDIT “The direction is prosaic and sentimental, while Robbie and Farrell have zero chemistry, not a squeak, and understandably fail to breathe life into such poorly written characters. ” – The Spectator Sep 18, 2025 Full Review The Cut (2024) 69% EDIT “It’s a story that’s been told umpteen times but what set this apart, I would suggest, is its deep and unremitting unpleasantness. ” – The Spectator Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Roses (2025) 64% EDIT “There’s some fun in watching Colman and Cumberbatch go head-to-head and there are some decent lines. But it’s not a relationship you can believe in and it fails to outshine the original. ” – The Spectator Aug 29, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% EDIT “Columbus doesn’t introduce much suspense or tension. And the cast’s talent is barely made use of. But, overall, it’s a loving salute to an old-fashioned kind of storytelling -- and a book that I’ll never read.” – The Spectator Aug 22, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “It’s lushly photographed and beautifully framed and it’s not a nightmare to sit through but whereas Past Lives stayed with you, I can feel this leaving me already.” – The Spectator Aug 15, 2025 Full Review The Kingdom (2024) 100% EDIT “Think of it as The Godfather from the point of view of a teenage Connie Corleone. Or The Sopranos from the perspective of Meadow. Or just take it for what it is, which is tense, brilliant and rivetingly convincing.” – The Spectator Aug 7, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “Within the first few minutes I heard a strange noise and felt a peculiar sensation and realised I was laughing. It happened quite a few times more, in fact. I was as surprised as anybody. ” – The Spectator Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% EDIT “It’s ultimately pretty simplistic. Still, the Philippou brothers know how to scare the bejesus out of you and the performances are all excellent, particularly Hawkins and Wren Phillips.” – The Spectator Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Four Letters of Love (2024) 44% EDIT “Steele directs with a sure hand and there is much else to delight in here. The cinematography has never made the Irish coast look so gorgeous (or sunny) or the cottages, with their jewel-coloured interiors, so cosy and the performances are all excellent. ” – The Spectator Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “The plot, which also incorporates geopolitics, is all over the place, convoluted and confusing. Die-hard fans may find it less so but have we stopped inviting everybody in? ” – The Spectator Jul 10, 2025 Full Review
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