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Alistair Harkness

Alistair Harkness's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 2/5 EDIT “Alas, despite scratching at interesting ideas, Gyllenhaal’s chaotic, see-what-sticks approach nullifies most of them, leaving us with an untethered heroine barking slogans that the film around her fails to back up in any creatively meaningful way. ” – Scotsman Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Everybody To Kenmure Street (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “...the film captures not just the heartening, sometimes surreal sense of community that emerged, but also the possible inflection points during which things could have deteriorated were it not for the cool-headed actions of the residents...” – Scotsman Mar 10, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 42% 2/5 EDIT “...the film takes the original’s gleefully macabre premise and makes it weirdly boring, starting with the tedious decision to begin with Powell’s character, Becket, recounting his story to a priest during his final few hours on death row. ” – Scotsman Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Dolly (2025) 62% 2/5 EDIT “It’s a grim, freaky set up, but it lacks the sustained menace of its biggest influence and, unlike Ti West’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre-riffing X trilogy, doesn’t have enough ideas of its own to take it somewhere interesting. ” – Scotsman Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 31% 2/5 EDIT “But while it’s fun to see Campbell once again embracing her inner badass, the new teen characters are pretty thinly conceived and Williamson struggles to generate any genuine tension...” – Scotsman Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “But if Pixar's boundary pushing instincts are in shorter supply these days...Hoppers demonstrates that it can still make a sparky original movie that’s properly entertaining, even if it doesn’t scale the artistic heights of its best work.” – Scotsman Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% 2/5 EDIT “It’s pretty compelling stuff — until co-writer/director Oliver Laxe proceeds to deliver a devastating mid-point shock so upsetting the film never recovers. ” – Scotsman Feb 24, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “... it’s an incredible testament not just to the power the first superstar of the rock ’n’ roll era once had, but the power he continues to exert over pop culture. ” – Scotsman Feb 24, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 85% 2/5 EDIT “Weirdly, the film doesn’t really build to much given the scope of Ann’s life and the themes it’s scratching at. Outside of the musical reveries and Seyfried’s outré performance, it’s pretty prosaic. ” – Scotsman Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 78% 3/5 EDIT “A slyly entertaining b-movie throwback that finds fun ways to deconstruct its own clichéd set-up, Cold Storage benefits from a smart script by...David Koepp...and breezy lead performances from Joe Keery (Stranger Things) and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian).” – Scotsman Feb 22, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Though a few too many of the supporting characters default to the cringe-comedy clichés of The Office, Charli herself is pretty good at self-lacerating humour.” – Scotsman Feb 22, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Bronstein’s exploration of the disproportionate toll raising a child takes on mothers has the nightmarish quality of a horror film...Still...the film doesn’t so much chip away at its themes as attack them with a sledgehammer. ” – Scotsman Feb 22, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “It makes for a fantastic companion piece to Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another in this way — and Maura’s Oscar-nominated performance capitalises on his movie star aura to reinforce how precarious anyone’s existence can be...” – Scotsman Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a gaudy and confused love story for gaudy and confused times. ” – Scotsman Feb 18, 2026 Full Review It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% EDIT “Dispelling myths about Buckley’s tragic drowning in 1997, and shifting away from the obvious parallels with his own musician father Tim Buckley...it refocuses attention on his astonishing voice and the women who raised, supported, loved and shaped him. ” – Scotsman Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 62% EDIT “Why said whistle is found in a high school is given only cursory attention by director Corin Hardy...but he also knows this is just an engine for delivering funhouse jolts, which he does with plenty of dumb-fun brio. ” – Scotsman Feb 17, 2026 Full Review GOAT (2026) 84% EDIT “Though formulaic, Goat’s got scrappy charm – and its painterly animation style gives it and a pleasingly rough-hewn feel.” – Scotsman Feb 17, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “ Though didactic in places, the film’s lyrical, child’s-eye perspective gradually captures the vibrancy (and therefore hope) of the people, even as they face the ongoing spirit-crushing oppression of a rigged political system. ” – Scotsman Feb 10, 2026 Full Review The Shepherd and the Bear (2024) 4/5 EDIT “Director Max Keegan doesn’t amp up this conflict though; embedding himself in the community his approach is more reminiscent of Frederick Wiseman’s as he quietly observes his subjects, revealing a more nuanced picture of the complexities of rural life.” – Scotsman Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Hamlet (2025) 82% 3/5 EDIT “...it’s a gritty, bloody, pretty streamlined take on Shakespeare’s thematically evergreen, if very familiar, tale of familial treachery, revenge and madness.” – Scotsman Feb 10, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The result is a film that captures something truthful about the way creativity works and how trauma never quite leaves you. And Poots really is mesmerising. ” – Scotsman Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Darkly funny but heartbreaking too, it’s a very assured piece of filmmaking, with O’Brian especially good playing a kind of soulful meathead not always able to find the right words to articulate what he's going through. ” – Scotsman Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Raimi delights in setting all this up, but it’s McAdams’ entertainingly unhinged transformation from corporate doormat to vengeful Bear Grylls that drives the action, with Linda enjoying her newfound dominance perhaps a little too much. ” – Scotsman Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 2/5 EDIT “Sadly, the rest of this 90-minute primate-fronted slasher movie proves a bit of a slog thanks to co-writer/director Johannes Roberts’ that’ll-do approach to the plot and characters.” – Scotsman Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 65% 2/5 EDIT “Those of us holding out for Statham’s John Wick or Leon might have to accept the fact that 2013’s Safe was his best shot.” – Scotsman Feb 2, 2026 Full Review
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