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Emma Simmonds

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The History of Sound (2025) 70% 3/5 EDIT “A pleasant enough film about the preservation and passing down of culture but one that seems unlikely to linger in the collective consciousness.” – The List Jan 23, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Park is a master of bad-taste antics and No Other Choice has bravura flourishes aplenty, including some impeccably executed death scenes.” – The List Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Saipan (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “It’s not as insightful nor quite as funny as you might hope, but it tells both sides of the story and builds compellingly to that explosive conclusion.” – The List Jan 19, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “It’s astonishing and brave for such a mainstream franchise film to so fully embrace its more insane inclinations; DaCosta keeps things tonally on track as Alex Garland’s script boldly blends the blackest of comedy and bonkers references.” – The List Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Zhao is a divinely subtle, emphatically visual filmmaker whose gift is for the deeply felt but unsaid. In her take on this love story, the most powerful moments are wordless.” – The List Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Marion Cotillard plays both a magical monarch and a dangerously alluring diva in French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic's fourth feature, a 70s-set, lightly supernatural drama.” – Radio Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Elphaba and Glinda are the gloriously compelling centre of a sometimes chortle-worthy storm. If the romance is a bit bungled, then these two fine actresses ensure that their own love story is one for the ages.” – The List Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Aloha (2015) 20% 2/5 EDIT “This star-studded film from Cameron Crowe is thinly drawn but it doesn't half lay the sentimentality on thick.” – Radio Times Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Regretting You (2025) 29% 2/5 EDIT “Josh Boone, delivers another romantic tearjerker in the shape of this shamelessly saccharine drama. ” – Radio Times Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Y2K (2024) 42% 2/5 EDIT “The cast toils gamely, but Y2K falls flat as a comedy, doesn't cut it as a horror, and its attempts to tug on the heartstrings feel thoroughly unearned.” – Radio Times Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 5/5 EDIT “Aided by an eclectic and beautifully employed soundtrack, Ramsay gives us something that is by turns strange and haunting and bracingly real and confrontational.” – The List Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 3/5 EDIT “A tighter edit and a touch more subtlety would have brought this horror classic more impactfully to life, but Del Toro has delivered an audacious take on a well-worn tale with bags of visual drama.” – The List Oct 22, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a fun, fascinating and very distinct spin on the material, while the ironic, 70s-sounding title is the cherry on the cake.” – The List Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “A thoroughly charming, if slightly insubstantial story of good intentions and disastrous decisions.” – The List Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “The London Film Festival opening movie is a rollicking whodunnit and another slice of evidence that Josh O’Connor will soon be a household name.” – The List Oct 9, 2025 Full Review I Swear (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “ The script is compassionate, wise and witty and the performances are exceptional.” – The List Oct 8, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 5/5 EDIT “Both explosively emotional and utterly chilling, this is phenomenal, food-for-thought filmmaking and what the expression edge-of-your-seat was made for.” – The List Oct 6, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% 3/5 EDIT “The Smashing Machine is idiosyncratic and eye-catching but fails to match the power of its formidable protagonist.” – The List Oct 6, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “It’s grand, gritty and epically long but, most of all, it’s outrageously, nay obscenely funny. Cinema really doesn’t get much more entertaining.” – The List Sep 29, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% 3/5 EDIT “There’s a theatricality to the dialogue and the film’s artificiality acts as a barrier to its emotion which, given how much it wants you to buy into it, can feel frustrating. ” – The List Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Islands (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “The whole enterprise benefits from bags of laid-back charm, a wonderful fit for a misguided yet inherently affable hero, who just cannot resist getting sucked into trouble.” – The List Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Deaf (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Deaf takes an intimate, incisive look at the all-too common challenges of new parenthood, while presenting circumstances that are fascinatingly specific. Affecting and enlightening, it’s a powerful piece of cinema.” – The List Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Outside of soap operas, teenage mothers aren’t granted much screen time, but with Young Mothers, the Dardennes take us beyond the hand-wringing headlines for a compassionate, really quite remarkable portrait of the challenges these girls face. ” – The List Sep 2, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “Chris Columbus has adapted the first of the four bestselling books in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series into a film, and it’s a frustrating affair that would have played out better as a mini-series.” – The List Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “The film can be effervescently entertaining and its interrogatory nature is to be applauded. Frequently provocative and pretty funny, it’s a welcome injection of intelligence in a genre which has for too long been fixated on formula.” – The List Aug 18, 2025 Full Review
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