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3.5/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Graeme Tuckett Song Sung Blue is a well-made and affectionate film with its heart in the right place. It sticks closely enough to the genuine chronology to occasionally feel a bit lumpy and haphazard. Which I like.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Graeme Tuckett The script feels like a response to a ChatGPT prompt, the animation is mostly lifeless and the subtle, clever and affectionate in-jokes and gags that once made SpongeBob so indelibly special and beloved are missing in action.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Graeme Tuckett This is a superb film, warm, funny as hell when it needs to be, and heartbreaking when it has earned the right. But most of all, Sentimental Value is insightful and understanding about love, family and loss.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rental Family (2025) James Croot This is a heartfelt, thought-provoking, upbeat story featuring a terrific turn from newcomer Gorman and anchored by a fabulous performance from the resurgent Fraser.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Marching Band (2024) Graeme Tuckett Courcol packs a lot of story into his 104 minutes, but My Brothers Band always feels like it is unfolding at exactly the right pace.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Housemaid (2025) Graeme Tuckett Even though it ticks a few boxes and Seyfried is trying her damndest, this is too long-winded and flabbily assembled to ever join the classics of the genre.
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The Family McMullen (2025) James Croot Family offers undemanding, entertaining viewing, a few laughs, engaging characters and a mix of cynicism and heart that’s truly hard not to like.
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Goodbye June (2025) James Croot It might not exactly be cheery Christmas viewing, but Goodbye June certainly offers plenty of food for thought and makes for a compelling watch.
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A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) James Croot 2025’s answer to Spirited, The Naughty Nine or Hot Frosty, this European misadventure by the trilling trio is the unexpected surprise/breakout hit of this year’s line-up.
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Tinsel Town (2025) James Croot Misunderstandings, pomposity and double entendres abound.
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Oh. What. Fun. (2025) James Croot Thankfully it’s closer in sensibilities and laughs-per-minute to Happiest Season or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation than Christmas With the Kranks or The Family Stone.
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My Secret Santa (2025) James Croot Fans of physical comedy, function disasters and wardrobe malfunctions will lap this up, while the chemistry between the leads is best described as crackling.
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A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025) James Croot The Alicia Silverstone renaissance continues with the former Clueless and Batman & Robin star front and centre in this predictable, but amiable farce.
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Jingle Bell Heist (2025) James Croot A thoroughly enjoyable rom-com that offers something a little different to the traditional festive fare.
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The Family Plan 2 (2025) James Croot Fun, but forgettable action.
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Christmas Karma (2025) James Croot The tale’s sometimes pantomime tone undermines the more serious drama around the 1970s expulsion of Indians from Uganda and an immigrant’s struggle for acceptance in Britain.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke (2025) James Croot A fascinating labour of love.
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2.5/5
The History of Sound (2025) Graeme Tuckett For the first 45 minutes, this gets across the screen like a film I'd be stopping old friends in the street to recommend. And then, bafflingly, all that promise just evaporates and drifts away in a fug of stultification.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) James Croot From its wordless opening stanza to its awkward silences, depression jokes and strained three-way chats about dog poop, Sometimes offers a meditative look at modern day social anxiety, a melancholy romantic drama and an absorbing Joycian character study.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Eternity (2025) James Croot Tonally, Freyne and his cast are pitch-perfect, delivering just the right combination of romance and cynicism. Expect tears.
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4/5
Beat the Lotto (2025) Graeme Tuckett Whitaker, thankfully, is far more interested in the personalities of the men involved and the society in which they lived, than he is in the mechanics and the equations of the scheme. And there are some big and engaging characters here.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Ella McCay (2025) Graeme Tuckett Although it is intended to be a portrait of a young woman rising to the top of her profession and overcoming every obstacle put in her way, the script also demeans, patronises and undermines Ella at every turn.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) James Croot The ensemble is superb, with Close and O’Connor the standouts, and although Blanc is late to the party, he’s probably at his best and most thought-provoking here.
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4/5
Boléro (2024) James Croot With the [Henry] Cavill-esque Personnaz serving up a charismatic, yet complex character, this is a fascinating tale that is well worth seeking out.
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2/5
Nuremberg (2025) Graeme Tuckett Vanderbilt flounders when he tries to imagine what was happening outside of the courtroom and piles too much of the film's thematic weight on to the shoulders of an actor isn't up to the role.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) James Croot As with Call Me By Your Name and Challengers, Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s latest work is an evocative (ticking clocks and point-of-view shots abound), provocative drama that won’t be to everyone’s taste.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Dead of Winter (2025) James Croot Move over Liam Neeson. On this evidence, there’s a new United Kingdom actor looking to take on the mantle of cinema’s pre-eminent pension-eligible action star.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Die My Love (2025) Graeme Tuckett Lawrence turns in a performance you can put alongside her roles in Winter's Bone, Silver Linings Playbook and Mother!.
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4/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Graeme Tuckett Every frame of Zootopia 2 is packed with detail and movement, and all of it looks just right.
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2.5/5
Keeper (2025) James Croot Perkins has cited Kubrick and Burton as his directorial inspirations, but Keeper feels far more Shyamalan in tone and feel, while coming across like a lesser version of 2020’s All the Moons.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Jay Kelly (2025) James Croot At once a mediation on father-daughter relationships to rival Interstellar and a portrait of an agent-client friendship that evokes memories of Jerry Maguire, this also terrifically skewers Hollywood and our attitudes towards its stars.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) James Croot It’s unlikely you’ll end up in a puddle of tears by the time the credits roll, but you’ll definitely feel like you’ve witnessed an all-singing, all-dancing Hollywood spectacular.
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Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) James Croot It’s not an easy watch. However, it is undoubtedly compelling and more than occasionally uplifting and hilarious.
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Train Dreams (2025) James Croot The subject of an eight-figure deal after its debut at Sundance, it’s easy to see what attracted Netflix to Train Dreams – this is cinematic storytelling at its finest.
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4/5
Familiar Touch (2024) James Croot There’s a real sense of space and place and authenticity that means this meditative, contemplative, quiet little tale lingers with you long after the credits roll.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Graeme Tuckett There is no magic in this film. It is just a mugging. The writing is lazy, the plot twists are nonsensical, the special effects are shoddy and rushed, and the actors - the old guard anyway - are just going through the contractually obligated motions.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Running Man (2025) Graeme Tuckett This is an ambitious spectacle, with a top-drawer cast and a budget that could have kept most countries’ film industries afloat for a year. And yet, despite all the bells and whistles, it stumbles and falls flat long before the lights come up.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) James Croot This Spinal sequel is a solidly built tale that entertains enough, without really raising too many uncontrollable laughs.
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4/5
Happyend (2024) Graeme Tuckett This is a deft and confident debut from Sora.
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4/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Graeme Tuckett As a feat of world-building and mythology expansion, it sets the scene for more films and books to come. But it also functions pretty well as a grisly action thriller and an unlikely buddy comedy.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
East of Wall (2025) Graeme Tuckett East of Wall is a tough, hard-bitten, engrossing and deeply likeable film. It packs a tremendous amount of insights, laughter and hard-won wisdom into a brief running time.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Other (2025) James Croot While not exactly subtle, Other certainly isn’t without artful jump-inducing moments and a creeping sense of dread, even if it feels like a lesser version of New Zealand’s own Housebound.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) James Croot Very much a "re-quel" in the spirit of the most recent Scream movies, it follows a new group of teens, while also finding room for Summer veterans Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) James Croot Credit Mexican director Michelle Garza Cervera and Sanctuary screenwriter Micah Bloomberg for altering some of the first version’s more preposterous elements and creating credible tension between the two women.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Freaked (1993) James Croot The Naked Gun or Flying High of body horror movies, no other movie boasts Mr. T as a Bearded Lady, Keanu Reeves as a dog boy, Bobcat Goldthwait voicing a sock puppet and Brooke Shields openly expressing her hatred for Return to the Blue Lagoon.
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Chain Reactions (2024) James Croot Worth watching just for the plethora of recommendations of other horrors to seek out.
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Caught Stealing (2025) James Croot Darren Aronofsky's thrilling crime-comedy is a terrific showcase for Elvis and Dune star Austin Butler.
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4/5
Bugonia (2025) James Croot A wild battle of wits and wills, all of which builds to striking denouement that is perhaps on the one hand predictable, but also perfect for what is, at its heart, a bleak, black comedy.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Good Fortune (2025) Graeme Tuckett It veers awfully close to being irritatingly smug and self-satisfied. But the likeability of Reeves and Rogen, with Sandra Oh and Keke Palmer, mostly powers it through a couple of tone-deaf patches.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Pike River (2025) Graeme Tuckett Pike River is a damn near-perfect film. It succeeds thunderously well at bringing to life the story it sets out to tell. And it treats the people and the communities of the coast with palpable aroha and respect.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
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