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Ace in the Hole (1951) Philip Hope-Wallace The scenes of the gathering of the vultures are magnificently put on the screen -- visual comment of the strongest kind. The heart and soul of the journalist is not. But it is an enthralling two hours.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Arabesque (1966) Ian Wright The trouble with "Arabesque" is that Donen tries too hard. He has a bright enough screenplay...but for all his effort he manages to add little that is sufficiently original.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Iron Lung (2026) Mike McCahill Fischbach holds steady before the camera; more money and bigger sets will doubtless come his way. But he can’t pull off the dramatic heavy lifting required to convert a short film’s worth of plot into a watchable feature.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Shelter (2026) Leslie Felperin Shelter, formulaically directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Greenland) working from a script by Ward Parry (The Shattering), feels populated by indestructible plastic tropes that have cracked and faded after years of scorching sun exposure.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Seized (2026) Adrian Horton Fascinating vox pop surveys aside, Seized offers the most thorough explanation yet of what led to the raid, which is equal parts sinister and amusingly petty.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Melania (2026) Xan Brooks The fun’s not infectious and the guests are a nightmare, and two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Back to the Past (2025) Phil Hoad There are some passable sequences, such as a cart-borne escape down a hillside tea plantation. But the fight choreography is rote gun-fu -- surprisingly, as it's overseen by old master Sammo Hung -- and often chopped into restrictive closeups.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
undertone (2025) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Peter Bradshaw The film, though likable and spirited and nicely acted, isn’t completely convincing on its own terms. It is, after all, intended to be funny on its own account.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Chasing Summer (2026) Adrian Horton One of the most bizarre combinations of director and material I’ve ever seen, more curious car crash than collaboration.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Josephine (2026) Adrian Horton There’s a chilling but thankfully restrained horror to Josephine’s inward retreat, as her inchoate anger boils over in increasingly erratic, alarming ways. It’s a feat not possible without Reeves -- a rare natural.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir (2026) Peter Bradshaw All these issues, all the allyship and advocacy, look like yet more brand accessories.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Rabbit Trap (2025) Peter Bradshaw Rabbit Trap is impressively controlled and composed, although there is something a little heartsinking in which the clear contours of storytelling finally soften into the indistinct fuzz of mood and vibe.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Strongroom (1962) Peter Bradshaw The movie delivers a couple of big shocks, with the biggest saved for just before the closing credits, and everything is briskly wrapped up inside 80 minutes.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Weight (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
See You When I See You (2026) Adrian Horton That See You When I See You often stumbles is occasionally frustrating but mostly forgivable, given the highly personal material and the sincere handling of trauma that would end me.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
State of Statelessness (2024) Cath Clarke A deep and desperately sad mood hangs over the entire project.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Witchboard (2024) Leslie Felperin Tacky as all this is, the fact that the flashbacks are in French adds a slight tang of authenticity.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Grizzly Night (2026) Phil Hoad Doeren clearly has a feel for the bear necessities, but the human interest hardly gets its boots on.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Pike River (2025) Cath Clarke The story is told with restraint, in meticulous detail -- possibly too much detail -- without any Erin Brockovich-type feelgood emotion, never losing sight of the heartbreak and devastation.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Another World (2025) Cath Clarke The movie is about how people ruin everything with their destructiveness, but also about the beauty of the human heart. It’s so inventive and imaginative that I wanted to love it more, but in the end found it a little bit psychologically uninvolving.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Frank & Louis (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Leslie Felperin The whole package is an easily digested guilty pleasure.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Silence and Cry (1967) Peter Bradshaw An impenetrable psychological trauma with weird erotic overtones, like an absurdist bad dream transcribed by Kafka.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Union County (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Wicker (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Friend's House Is Here (2026) Adrian Horton The colorful characters amiably populating this loose, organic film, played by a collective of real-life underground artists and improv actors, are liable to be harassed, fined, arrested or disappeared at any moment.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Send Help (2026) Peter Bradshaw It’s a time-honoured and perfectly enjoyable setup, and the first act, when the new reality dawns on clueless Bradley, is watchable. But the plot twists are derivative and the action then becomes dependent on weird stabs of grisliness.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Invite (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Gallerist (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Extra Geography (2026) Adrian Horton That it works -- that the dissolution, in all its mundanities and ordinary indignities, is both painfully funny and a punch in the gut -- is credit to Clear and Duggan, both extraordinary finds in their own ways.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Leviticus (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Incomer (2026) Adrian Horton Where I was put off by The Incomer’s cutesy hijinks, others may find winsome messages on the fickle magic of human connection and the risks of snap judgment. To those people, I wish a pleasant stay on the isle.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Moment (2026) Adrian Horton In other words, smart concepts, talented people, solid blueprint. But there is too little risk to rise above its sharp-eyed construction.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
I Want Your Sex (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The History of Concrete (2026) Adrian Horton As a standalone film, The History of Concrete is consistently laugh-out-loud funny, compelling and surprising, if 20 minutes too long. And, of course, about much more than just concrete.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Derek Malcolm The whole thing is based on a novel which should have either remained on the page or been considerably livened up for the screen.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Buddy (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Carousel (2026) Benjamin Lee 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.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Tim Pulleine At 107 minutes the film rather outstays its welcome.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Derek Malcolm There's not the slightest hint of the racy irreverence of Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap, nor much of the wicked irony of his misery. This is more like When Harry Truman Met Sally -- a little pat, but equipped with a nicely intriguing premise.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Jesse Hassenger It turns out, making a horror movie where the hero is more casually curious (or oblivious) than scared is a tricky proposition.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Saipan (2025) Peter Bradshaw It’s a story which is capably, straightforwardly told by film-makers Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa, and well acted by its leads Éanna Hardwicke as Keane and Steve Coogan as McCarthy.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Heavyweight (2025) Phil Hoad A shrewd probing of the pressure-cooker environment of modern combat sports.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) Lucy Mangan It is striking and undeniably uplifting how firmly she explains herself, outlines her extraordinary suffering and the psychological effects of intense fear at the hands of a violent man, and puts the responsibility back on Mitchell.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Mercy (2026) Peter Bradshaw It’s ingenious and watchable stuff, with cheeky twists, although the final escalation to full-on action mayhem is maybe a step too far towards pure absurdity.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026) Cath Clarke Never has a film been more deserving of an exclamation mark at the end of the title than this animation from Japan.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Mother of Flies (2025) Leslie Felperin Overall, this is better and glossier than some of the Adams-Poser posse’s earlier efforts, but perhaps not quite enough of an evolution to take their vision to the next level.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
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