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Nick Howells

Nick Howells's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “This is a light-touch love letter from Linklater and so focuses on the greatest hits from a story that’s far more complex. ” – London Evening Standard Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 4/5 EDIT “This is three hours and 15 minutes of unsurpassed cinematic pyrotechnics. Cameron has taken 3D cinema to another wild dimension with a gloriously intense experience that will, frankly, leave you deliriously exhausted.” – London Evening Standard Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “A melt-the-screen-down-to-gold performance. With the steamroller audacity of his character, Chalamet has staked a massively confident claim for his first Oscar. If you must gamble, lay it all on Chalamet. Now.” – London Evening Standard Dec 1, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 63% 3/5 EDIT “This is far from a trainwreck (good company while chomping through a kilo of popcorn) but don’t run to the cinema.” – London Evening Standard Nov 13, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 5/5 EDIT “This is O’Connor at his finest yet, and The Mastermind is the slinkiest, most satisfying piece of “mood cinema” you’re likely to have seen for a long while.” – London Evening Standard Oct 26, 2025 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Discomfiting and emotionally devastating in the extreme, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s dramatised account of Hind’s death is utterly essential film-making.” – London Evening Standard Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “While not her finest, it’s a daring, full-throttle blast. So here’s to not waiting another eight years for more of the bonkers brilliance of Lynne Ramsay.” – London Evening Standard Oct 18, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “It is just so intelligent; so blisteringly powerful; so light of touch. It is also one of those rare movies that manages to mix an unlikely trinity of shaggy-dog comedy, revenge thriller and seriously heavy political s--t.” – London Evening Standard Oct 14, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% 5/5 EDIT “The Testament of Ann Lee is a wild, wonderful tribute to one hell of a woman and Seyfried is the glowing flame at its heart.” – London Evening Standard Oct 14, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “It’s a rollicking riot that Anderson marshals into what might be the most enjoyable cinema experience this year.” – London Evening Standard Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Islands (2025) 93% 5/5 EDIT “Audiences are in for a scorching, sun-frazzled Hitchcockian delight from German director Jan-Ole Gerster.” – London Evening Standard Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% 4/5 EDIT “This is a fond, chaotic yet subtle tribute to the original movie and, hopefully, a one-off farewell. Cheers fellas, big bottoms up!” – London Evening Standard Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% 2/5 EDIT “Like a Guy Richie movie sans swagger or a Coen brothers comedy without the laughs, this time Aronofsky has given us a rather pointless outing loaded with blanks.” – London Evening Standard Aug 26, 2025 Full Review 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Regardless of its wider effect, it’s probably the most powerful film that will be seen in cinemas this year, and for that reason alone is absolutely essential viewing.” – London Evening Standard Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% 5/5 EDIT “Creepy as an ordinary day hell, this is one of the best movies of the year, horror or otherwise. Prepare your body for one of those thrillingly rare, all too real sensations…” – London Evening Standard Jul 21, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% 5/5 EDIT “It's that time, halfway through the year, when enough movies have been seen to risk the phrase “best film of the year so far”. And right on cue, here we have it. Nothing in 2025 has been as good as this supercharged, shuddering blast.” – London Evening Standard Jun 18, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “This should have been an all-guns-blazing blowout -- it feels like a party where someone forgot to pop the cork.” – London Evening Standard May 14, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “It's an almost brilliant piece of work, but like the bullet-riddled bodies that pile up, there are so many nagging little holes here that meaning slightly drains away...” – London Evening Standard Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The End (2024) 56% 3/5 EDIT “The whole enterprise is weirdly compelling and oddly flat at the same time. And those tunes? Showstoppers? Not quite, although by the end, their deliberately old-fashioned hokeyness grows on you.” – London Evening Standard Apr 4, 2025 Full Review The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Besides the unsettlingly claustrophobic cinematography, every second of dread comes with a muffled, discombobulating clatter of sound. And both lead actors are on cracking form.” – London Evening Standard Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% 4/5 EDIT “Mickey 17 never seemed likely to be as good as Parasite. It just doesn’t have the same gravitas and edge, but with its maelstrom of nonsense and loveable stars on top form, it’s a rampantly fun cosmic caper.” – London Evening Standard Mar 8, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% 5/5 EDIT “In the face of inhumanity, Salles’s film simply radiates love.” – London Evening Standard Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Memoir of a Snail (2024) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Besides more naked folk, there are plenty of other reasons to leave the kids at home; this looks like Nick Cave has crowbarred his way into Aardman studios and cursed the clay with a gothic, decidedly adult, cloak of doom. ” – London Evening Standard Feb 14, 2025 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% 5/5 EDIT “There are hints of Hitchcock and Kubrick as this story inexorably unravels beyond the control of its players... this is unnervingly tense, properly intelligent, essential viewing.” – London Evening Standard Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Companion is a total hoot.” – London Evening Standard Jan 29, 2025 Full Review
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