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La Grazia (2025) 84% 5/5 EDIT “La Grazia is a completely compelling and stimulating piece of cinema, one that puts being sensible on a pedestal and that feels like fantasy more than it should.” – The List Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Goddard’s script is phenomenally funny and to say no one could have pulled this off better than Gosling is a huge understatement.” – The List Mar 16, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 3/5 EDIT “The Bride! is a sometimes seductive, sometimes frustrating watch, a star-stuffed feast that leaves you hungry.” – The List Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 3/5 EDIT “The director gets great value from his leads, with McAdams and O'Brien absolutely launching themselves into their performances as they plumb the depths of human derangement.” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% 4/5 EDIT “Wuthering Heights is wonderfully flamboyant filmmaking, that will almost certainly provoke pearl-clutching amongst the purists.” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “With political instability spreading across the globe, this hangdog hero speaks powerfully to us all.” – The List Feb 23, 2026 Full Review Wasteman (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Screenwriters Hunter Andrews and Eoin Doran paint a depressingly credible picture of an overstretched and inhumane institution that makes it as difficult as possible for people to turn their lives around.” – The List Feb 23, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Byrne takes what could have been a highly dislikeable, unforgivably reckless character and renders her compelling, relatable, funny and sympathetic. It’s the mark of a truly great actress.” – The List Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Acting as a wakeup call to get off our phones and out there into the world, it’s wacky, wise and wonderfully enjoyable.” – The List Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “It’s hard not to be in awe of what Fastvold has achieved here. It’s a real one-off.” – The List Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The Chronology Of Water is an intoxicating and thoughtfully crafted debut that announces Stewart as an intuitive and bold filmmaker to watch. ” – The List Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Though its view is unashamedly rose-tinted, Nouvelle Vague boasts a lovely lightness, a sense of the sheer thrill of doing things your own way, without fear for the consequences. ” – The List Jan 29, 2026 Full Review 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) 93% 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) 92% 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) 87% 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) 43% 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
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