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John Nugent

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Dead Man's Wire (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Van Sant’s previous historical fictions have been more incisive, but this is a tense crime thriller, with a solid new addition to Bill Skarsgård’s rogues’ gallery of scumbags.” – Empire Magazine Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Arco (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “A special sort of film, one which can be enjoyed as a dark climate-change allegory and a bright, colourful, emotional yarn on friendship and family. Fantastique!” – Empire Magazine Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) 79% 3/5 EDIT “With some genuinely shocking moments, this is a fascinating, frightening —  if frustrating — account of masculinity in crisis.  ” – Empire Magazine Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 4/5 EDIT “This is for the most part an absolute space-smash: stupidly entertaining stuff about seriously clever speculative concepts. Hail, Mary!” – Empire Magazine Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Mother's Pride (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Parochial pub-based piffle — like a pint that’s gone a bit flat. But you can’t doubt its sincerity.” – Empire Magazine Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Don’t call it a comeback -- but this is really strong stuff from Pixar: funny, thoughtful, sweet, making for a heartfelt paean to nature, and beavers in particular. Dam good.” – Empire Magazine Mar 2, 2026 Full Review Wasteman (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “An energetic, urgent and damning assessment of our prison crisis, Wasteman marks Cal McMau as an exciting new homegrown director.” – Empire Magazine Feb 18, 2026 Full Review GOAT (2026) 84% 2/5 EDIT “Lovely visuals, but this is a rare miss from Sony Pictures Animation. Watch KPop Demon Hunters again, instead.” – Empire Magazine Feb 14, 2026 Full Review The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) 86% 2/5 EDIT “Gorgeous to look at — but this is simply not looney enough to stand alongside the Looney Tunes greats of old. Needs more anvils.” – Empire Magazine Feb 11, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A hugely impressive debut. Personal and political, this is a tender and spellbinding depiction of family in fraught times.” – Empire Magazine Feb 11, 2026 Full Review The Muppet Show (2026) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Hardly reinventing the wheel, but Seth Rogen clearly understands that the Muppet wheel doesn’t need reinventing. This is a smart, silly revival of our favourite fuzzy heroes, executed with craft and care. More, please!” – Empire Magazine Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Essentially “Men will literally do stand-up rather than go to therapy”, in cinematic form. An appealing tragicomedy-drama, told with veracity and heart by Cooper, Arnett and Dern.” – Empire Magazine Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 4/5 EDIT “A gripping, zig-zaggy potboiler, this is a crime thriller in the old-school tradition, with some enjoyable turns from Boston’s finest, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.” – Empire Magazine Jan 17, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “About as powerful as cinema gets. Its hybrid blend of documentary audio and devastating dramatisation is heart-wrenchingly, shatteringly effective.” – Empire Magazine Jan 17, 2026 Full Review The Extraordinary Miss Flower (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “A true original: an impressionistic portrait of a lost life, recreated in multiple forms with a gorgeous soundtrack. Odd, but unique.” – Empire Magazine Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “With strong performances in service to a clear, confident vision from Chloé Zhao, this is a wrenching contemplation of the “undiscovered country” of death and grief.” – Empire Magazine Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 24% 2/5 EDIT “An odd, messy, misjudged shambles. You can’t fault the earnest tone or the plucky performances, but you can fault almost everything else.” – Empire Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Desperate Journey (2025) 3/5 EDIT “A lavish if not especially profound World War II drama, Desperate Journey gets by thanks to its earnest belief in its remarkable protagonist, and the need for his tale to be shared.” – Empire Magazine Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Haunting, serenely composed and beautiful, this is an elegy for a life and a country that America used to be. ” – Empire Magazine Dec 2, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 2/5 EDIT “This is not the messiah. Nor is it a very naughty boy. There was an opportunity for a truly original spin on the so-called Greatest Story Ever Told here, but The Carpenter’s Son pulls its punches to make a rather rote horror that amounts to little.” – Empire Magazine Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Gothic, iconoclastic, engrossing, slyly excoriating of modern-day America and very funny to boot, it’s another solidly satisfying whodunnit from Benny B. Keep them coming, please.” – Empire Magazine Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Not quite over the rainbow, then, but just enough of its colours and candour to get by.” – Empire Magazine Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Christmas Karma (2025) 24% 2/5 EDIT “Gurinder Chadha’s Dickens do-over is a typically original perspective on a canonical classic, if let down by its stretched production values and unlikable songs. But it aims only to be a crowd-pleaser, and may yet become one. ” – Empire Magazine Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 61% 2/5 EDIT “Now You Three Me, as it should be called, offers ample 2010s nostalgia, but not quite enough brainless fun lands successfully. Put this rabbit back in the hat.” – Empire Magazine Nov 13, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% 4/5 EDIT “It's Wright's biggest, boldest canvas yet, and while it is less funny or flashily directed than his earlier fare, he doesn't miss a chance to rib American popular culture or the capitalist horrors it fostered, as King once did.” – Empire Magazine Nov 11, 2025 Full Review
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