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Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition (2026) 3/5 EDIT “It’s cheerful and watchable, if a relentlessly on-brand fan promo, corporately policed and controlled, using vintage archive photos and video rather than closeup talking-head footage of the band now.” – Guardian May 6, 2026 Full Review Jimpa (2025) 52% 2/5 EDIT “Sophie Hyde has directed an earnestly intended but very indulgent film... it blandly congratulates itself on its sensitivity and cathartic honesty, but is without the spark of her 2019 quarterlifecrisis comedy Animals.” – Guardian May 6, 2026 Full Review Self Driver (2024) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Though flawed and in need of some script development, adds up to a pertinent satirical comment on the gig economy and the Waymo-isation of the service industry.” – Guardian May 4, 2026 Full Review Kokuho (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “The action is elegantly interspersed with kabuki performances.” – Guardian May 4, 2026 Full Review Highlander (1986) 70% 4/5 EDIT “Those who can indulge it will find it uniquely quirky, funny and eccentrically ambitious.” – Guardian May 4, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 88% 3/5 EDIT “It is an amusing and gruesome premise, which writer-director Damian McCarthy stretches out into a convoluted, bizarre extended narrative involving two separate hospital stays for Ohm.” – Guardian May 4, 2026 Full Review Wild Foxes (2025) 94% 3/5 EDIT “There are a lot of ideas and images swirling around this film; they don’t all gel... But the acting, physical presence and energy of Camille and his crew deliver a real punch.” – Guardian Apr 29, 2026 Full Review ADA - My Mother the Architect (2024) 4/5 EDIT “Architect turned film-maker Yael Melamede presents us with this insightful, though perhaps faintly indulgent, portrait of her mother, Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melamede. ” – Guardian Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC (2026) 4/5 EDIT “Although no amount of revisionist gallantry can conceal how terrible Yoko Ono’s vocals are, this has a historical fascination as they were Lennon’s only full-length concert performances after the Beatles’ split. ” – Guardian Apr 29, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% 3/5 EDIT “This is good-natured, buoyant entertainment. It’s wearing well.” – Guardian Apr 29, 2026 Full Review The Sheep Detectives (2026) 93% 3/5 EDIT “With a touch of Watership Down somewhere in the mix, this film, for some, may be off-putting. Actually, it makes for a sweet-natured family comedy, and a spiky and amusing cameo from Emma Thompson certainly doesn’t hurt.” – Guardian Apr 27, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “This is an elegant, chilly dream of despair.” – Guardian Apr 22, 2026 Full Review Couture (2025) 61% 2/5 EDIT “Sadly, the film itself feels specious and shallow, insisting with bland and weirdly humourless confidence on the glamorous importance of the fashion world in which it is set.” – Guardian Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “It is another highly sympathetic performance from O’Connor, who converts the British reticence of his earlier roles into Dusty’s strength and quiet vulnerability.” – Guardian Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “It is highly diverting, elegantly contrived study of an unhappy family group and the cuckoo in its nest.” – Guardian Apr 21, 2026 Full Review La venue de l'avenir (2025) 95% 3/5 EDIT “It’s the kind of French movie for which you’ll need a sweet tooth, but it’s tasty.” – Guardian Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 39% 2/5 EDIT “This is a frustratingly shallow, inert picture, a kind of cruise-ship entertainment, which can’t quite bring itself to show that Michael was an abuse victim, brutalised by his father and robbed of his childhood.” – Guardian Apr 21, 2026 Full Review McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass (2026) 3/5 EDIT “The personal story behind the theft -- the real story, in fact -- is sadder, and more banal and more painful, than the film can quite acknowledge.” – Guardian Apr 20, 2026 Full Review Dead Souls (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It is a diverting and watchable love letter to the spaghetti west of the movies, and a satirical thorn in the flesh of Trumpian politics.” – Guardian Apr 16, 2026 Full Review The Blue Trail (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The Blue Trail is a generic mashup: it partly has the bittersweet tone of many films about defiant old people, and partly it has something far more subversive and disquieting. The mix of tones is interesting, like chewing cake and cheese at the same time.” – Guardian Apr 15, 2026 Full Review Glenrothan (2025) 17% 3/5 EDIT “It can be a bit soppy, sometimes resembling Sunday-night TV comfort food, but this big-hearted picture wins you over, and there are certainly some marvellous panoramic shots of the Highlands.” – Guardian Apr 15, 2026 Full Review Stand by Me (1986) 89% 5/5 EDIT “The resulting adventure -- bizarre, mysterious and moving -- is about lost youth and the recovery of innocence through writing and memory. It is also one of those vanishingly rare films where child actors have to carry almost the entire drama.” – Guardian Apr 8, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 68% 3/5 EDIT “One day, I predict, Jude will make a biopic of political vampirism about the most pressing Romanian subject of all: Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. At all events, there are moments of startling insanity here.” – Guardian Apr 7, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 90% 5/5 EDIT “François Ozon’s lustrously beautiful and superbly realised monochrome version of Albert Camus’s novella L’Etranger has an almost supernaturally detailed sense of period and place. ” – Guardian Apr 7, 2026 Full Review Effi o Blaenau (2026) 4/5 EDIT “It is a tremendous performance from Gwenllian as Effi.” – Guardian Apr 2, 2026 Full Review
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