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James Mottram

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Sunny Dancer (2026) 3/5 EDIT “While it might be difficult to call the film upbeat, it is sharply funny, shrewdly directed and catches the rhythms of teen interactions just so. ” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Wolfram (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “From shimmering sunsets to the plague of flies buzzing around every character, Thornton crafts an evocative, stark backdrop for this engaging survivalist drama.” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Danielsen Lie truly inhabits Evans, and spars well with Pullman, who effortlessly plays the father figure. Their drunken pow-wow in a bar is simply priceless.” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Nightborn (2026) 73% 4/5 EDIT “Grint is good value as the ineffectual hubbie, but - just as with pregnancy - it's the woman who does the work, with an exquisite, earthy turn from Haarla.” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review A Prayer for the Dying (2026) 2/5 EDIT “Reilly brings his usual quirky charm, but even he can't save this from its largely soporific feel. An inventive, try-hard movie that sadly never comes off.” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Josephine (2026) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Beautifully measured, and featuring some really incisive montages, this is an honest, frank and engrossing character study.” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Animol (2026) 4/5 EDIT “An impressive, confident debut from Walters. ” – Radio Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Queen at Sea (2026) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Binoche works wonders as the frazzled mum-of-one, unable to cope with her own mother's increasing lack of awareness, while Courtenay - a decade on from co-starring in Andrew Haigh's 45 Years - offers another great late-career performance. ” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Rosebush Pruning (2026) 29% 2/5 EDIT “With Pamela Anderson popping up in a cameo, at least the cast adds some louche glamour to an otherwise drab and sometimes distasteful affair.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review At the Sea (2026) 33% 2/5 EDIT “The script by Kata Wéber feels underwritten, particularly one-note characters like Laura's best friend” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review The Education of Jane Cumming (2026) 4/5 EDIT “Shaw eats up her scenes, but Tharia impresses the most, bringing sensitivity and pain, rather than malevolence, to her misunderstood character.” – Radio Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 63% 3.5/5 EDIT “They Will Kill You is a delicious slice of pure midnight movie madness.” – South China Morning Post Apr 1, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 74% 2/5 EDIT “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is a follow-up devoid of original ideas and too reliant on bone-crunching violence.” – South China Morning Post Apr 1, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 43% 2/5 EDIT “Returning us to the lurid, trippy Mushroom Kingdom, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is equally barmy, if not quite as fresh or funny as its predecessor. ” – Radio Times Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% 3/5 EDIT “It's a sometimes meandering but often charming meditation on emasculation and the stresses of divorce.” – Radio Times Mar 31, 2026 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% 3/5 EDIT “Corvino directs with brio, although sometimes the insights into modern-day couplings get lost amid the inherent craziness. It's a smartly acted film, even if it only hits a couple of the nerves it seeks to.” – Radio Times Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The Orphans (2025) 2/5 EDIT “There's nothing wildly original here.” – Radio Times Mar 23, 2026 Full Review My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “In a society where journalists are imprisoned for treason and writing about the normality of gay families can get you branded an "extremist terrorist", this terrific, terrifying film shows that speaking truth to power requires more than catchy slogans.” – Radio Times Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 2/5 EDIT “Ryan Gosling flies almost entirely solo in Project Hail Mary, a disappointingly derivative sci-fi mash-up of Interstellar, The Martian and Tom Hanks’ desert island drama Cast Away.” – South China Morning Post Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Perhaps it’s not as emotional as you might hope but this sombre final chapter of Peaky Blinders still wraps things up as tightly as a burial shroud. And for that, we doff our razor-lined caps.” – NME (New Musical Express) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 3/5 EDIT “A thought-provoking re-assessment of Shelley’s work and a bonkers feminist call-to-arms ” – NME (New Musical Express) Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Hoppers manages a perfect high-wire act, working both as a thoroughly entertaining family film and something rich with adult themes.” – South China Morning Post Mar 4, 2026 Full Review A New Dawn (2026) 2.5/5 EDIT “One cannot help but feel it is all a bit of a hodgepodge, as the filmmaker throws everything at the anime wall to see what sticks.” – South China Morning Post Mar 4, 2026 Full Review We Are All Strangers (2026) 91% 4/5 EDIT “It is a beautiful conclusion to this loose 13-year trilogy, proving Chen has fully matured as a filmmaker.” – South China Morning Post Mar 4, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 67% 3/5 EDIT “At its heart, Charli is an able performer, capable of playing herself without ever feeling self-conscious. ” – Radio Times Mar 4, 2026 Full Review
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