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Stephen A. Russell

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Stephen A Russell is a freelance film critic hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, and based in Melbourne, Australia. You can read his reviews at The New Daily, and listen in on Joy 94.9FM show Sunday Arts Magazine.

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Rosebush Pruning (2026) EDIT “Rosebush Pruning is a fabulous feast for the eyes and ears – and those who like their cinema deliriously queer.” – Time Out Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Animol (2026) EDIT “This prison drama breaks free from expectations. Nyuot is astonishing in a tight ensemble that also includes Stephen Graham” – Time Out Feb 15, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 64% EDIT “A blistering take-down of the social media-driven celebrity culture, The Moment combines the anxiety-inducing mayhem of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and the omnishambles clusterfuck of The Thick of It.” – Time Out Feb 15, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 83% EDIT “Matthew Robinson’s sloppy screenplay feels like it may have been churned out by AI itself. It’s crammed with leaden exposition and clumsy with hammy dialogue in which everyone over-explains themselves, as if we’re watching it with one eye on our phones.” – Time Out Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “An enjoyable enough character study, it coasts along on the near-unrivalled strength of Dern, with Arnett just about keeping up. ” – ScreenHub Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% EDIT “Marty Supreme is propulsive fun, all go, go, gosh, he’s a liability.” – ScreenHub Jan 19, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “Once again, we’ll land on astonishingly incongruous, wildly beguiling tenderness ... majestic filmmaking at its finest.” – ScreenHub Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% EDIT “Really, really, funny, Zoe Deutch's eye-rolls alone are really worth it ... and it looks beautiful ... will appeal to anyone who enjoys film history ” – ABC News Radio Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% EDIT “A genuinely horny morality (fore)play that crackles with all the energy of a 90s erotic thriller as viewed through the disappointments of the post-Me Too era and the dashed hopes that attend what was supposed to rewrite the scene.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Jan 3, 2026 Full Review Gorgonà (2025) EDIT “Athens-based visual artist and filmmaker Evi Kalogiropoulou understands the power of intricately layered worldbuilding to pull us into a dangerously addictive dystopia.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Jan 3, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% EDIT “Jackman and Hudson are a charismatic pairing, but the documentary had a lot more bite. ” – ABC News Radio Jan 1, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 68% EDIT “A really lovely community story, a little bit cheesy and comfortable, even if the boys in the choir are a bit forgettable. ” – ABC News Radio Jan 1, 2026 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Lynne Ramsay hasn’t put a foot wrong yet with her haunted tales of volatile outsiders. Jennifer Lawrence is incendiary as a woman on the edge who refuses to be pinned down” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Jan 1, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% EDIT “Godland filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason’s picture-perfect family drama blew me away like a giant and very angry rooster.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Jan 1, 2026 Full Review National Theatre Live: Inter Alia (2025) EDIT “Rosamund Pike’s towering performance in Suzie Miller’s gut-punch of a filmed play approaches sexual violence from a very different, if equally unsettling, angle.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Jan 1, 2026 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Take a bow, Amy Maddigan ... As alarmingly amusing as it is deeply disturbing on a DNA level.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Jan 1, 2026 Full Review Perro Perro (2025) EDIT “Marco Berger's best in ages, maybe ever ... it's achingly tender and tragic.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Jan 1, 2026 Full Review Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) 97% EDIT “Getting at the heart of why it became a global sensation of found family fun, it centres on an 80-something, still in heels O’Brien’s bold bravery, back then and now, blurring gender lines without apology. ” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “Andres Veiel’s searing takedown of megalomaniacal Hitler’s propaganda-spinner of choice, Leni Riefenstahl, does precisely what any great prosecutor does: hangs her by her own words. ” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% EDIT “You feel the loss here immeasurably, the horrible cost of stupid cruelty. This one will stick with me forever. ” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Megadoc (2025) 98% EDIT “The clash of the titan, Coppola, with the dubious Shia LaBeouf is deliriously delicious, as is Aubrey Plaza’s even more unhinged than could be expected contribution. A snort-laugh avalanche from start to finish.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Chain Reactions (2024) 98% EDIT “Alexandre O. Philippe’s ace The Texas Chain Saw Massacre breakdown.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review My Mom Jayne (2025) 100% EDIT “Hargitay stitches still-raw family testaments with remarkable archival material to create something unmooring in its magnanimous reclamation.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review 2073 (2024) 49% EDIT “Amy filmmaker Asif Kapadia's clear-eyed wrangling with fake news blurs the documentary form to posit where our surveillance state and bad actors will lead us in the future, with Blade Runner-like fictional sequences led by Samantha Morton.” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) 100% EDIT “Recalling last year’s similarly generous Simon and Marianne, it’s as much about the joy of life as it is the spectre of death. ” – Orion's Shoulder (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review
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