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The Killer (1989) 96% 4/5 EDIT “John Woo’s 1989 thriller is a reminder of the director’s habit of hitching the craziest of mayhem to a mile-wide streak of earnest emotionalism and sentimentality; a strong and under-acknowledged part of why his films are so addictive.” – Guardian Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Midwinter Break (2026) 60% 5/5 EDIT “There is often something soft and fuzzy and depressing in the wrong way about these films’ lenient sunset-sentimentalism -- but not so with Polly Findlay’s fiercely sad, spiky and wonderfully acted film.” – Guardian Mar 19, 2026 Full Review The Straight Story (1999) 95% 4/5 EDIT “The Straight Story is a heartwarmer of the sort that Lynch arguably hadn’t attempted since his version of The Elephant Man in 1980, and this was without that element of the grotesque.” – Guardian Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Zulu Dawn (1979) 56% 3/5 EDIT “The British lost, but in terms of the contest between interest and boredom, it’s a draw.” – Guardian Mar 12, 2026 Full Review A Pale View of Hills (2025) 61% 2/5 EDIT “It is a bland, soggy film whose contrived and anticlimactic surprise ending is not delivered with a clear satisfying twist.” – Guardian Mar 11, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 43% 2/5 EDIT “A pale imitation.” – Guardian Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Dust (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Handsomely produced and shot, and impeccably acted. But it’s also weirdly parochial, leaving you with the sense that it has not reached beyond its immediate concerns.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review The Education of Jane Cumming (2026) 4/5 EDIT “This very well acted film is an astringent and commonsensical account of what in all probability happened in private as well as in public: a story of race, class, sexuality and empire.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 3/5 EDIT “This is a Hail Mary pass that Gosling just about manages to catch.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% 4/5 EDIT “It is all so bizarre that you have to enjoy it and it makes those of us of a certain generation nostalgic for watching VHS rental tapes on a Friday night.” – Guardian Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Soul to Soul (1971) 4/5 EDIT “This is a film in which there is no tension and no debate; there is a broad celebratory unity. ” – Guardian Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Maybe you have to be fully invested in the TV show to really like it, although this canonisation of Tommy is a sentimental treatment of what we actually know of crime gangs in the second world war. Nevertheless, it is a resoundingly confident drama.” – Guardian Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 4/5 EDIT “Without Buckley, this would have been lacking; with her, it’s a very bizarre and enjoyable spectacle of married bliss.” – Guardian Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “The film perhaps suffers from a loss of nerve about how villainous to make the villain, but it zaps along very entertainingly.” – Guardian Mar 2, 2026 Full Review Everybody To Kenmure Street (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s an amazing story of a community triumph, showing how the nasty little habits of domineering policing can be countered by stubbornly British -- and in this case, specifically Scottish -- insistence on justice. It’s a morale-boosting film.” – Guardian Feb 25, 2026 Full Review We Are All Strangers (2026) 91% 4/5 EDIT “There’s some addictively brash storytelling here from Chen, with a page-turning novelistic energy and a marvellous sympathy for the whole cast.” – Guardian Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “You may find yourself wondering why we are going over this ground again, but it's an engaging film, and there is always something mesmeric in McCartney's face: cherubic, and yet sharp and watchful.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Bronstein is brilliant at conveying mounting panic and a terrible, all-consuming sadness.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The Blood Countess (2026) 82% 3/5 EDIT “A succession of bizarre episodes, often engagingly bizarre, sometimes heavy-handed, although it is notable that the script is partly credited to Austria’s Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek who is not known for humour of any sort.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Queen at Sea (2026) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Queen at Sea is a film with a tragic, wintry candour.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Wasteman (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Some of the tropes are familiar, but this film sidesteps the cliches with the committed acting and fierce storytelling punch.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Nightborn (2026) 70% 2/5 EDIT “Some amusing moments, but a disappointment after the excellent Hatching.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Animol (2026) 3/5 EDIT “This is a flawed film, certainly, but with empathy, and strong performances.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rosebush Pruning (2026) 30% 2/5 EDIT “I have to admit to finding it heavy-handed and clumsy more often than not, although there are some good performances, notably from Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review At the Sea (2026) 35% 1/5 EDIT “Here is a quite unbearable curation of first-world problems.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review
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