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Stand by Me (1986) 88% 5/5 EDIT “The resulting adventure -- bizarre, mysterious and moving -- is about lost youth and the recovery of innocence through writing and memory. It is also one of those vanishingly rare films where child actors have to carry almost the entire drama.” – Guardian Apr 8, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 68% 3/5 EDIT “One day, I predict, Jude will make a biopic of political vampirism about the most pressing Romanian subject of all: Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. At all events, there are moments of startling insanity here.” – Guardian Apr 7, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 90% 5/5 EDIT “François Ozon’s lustrously beautiful and superbly realised monochrome version of Albert Camus’s novella L’Etranger has an almost supernaturally detailed sense of period and place. ” – Guardian Apr 7, 2026 Full Review Effi o Blaenau (2026) 4/5 EDIT “It is a tremendous performance from Gwenllian as Effi.” – Guardian Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Two Women (2025) 83% 2/5 EDIT “There are one or two interesting moments: including an intriguing discussion of the idea that Tinder is anti-love and in fact just promotes addiction to the app... But really this is a very tiring and mediocre film.” – Guardian Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 43% 1/5 EDIT “Of course it’s intended for little kids, but it surely didn’t need to be such a visually dull screensaver of a movie, with even more of the cheesy, Euro-knockoff look of that first film. ” – Guardian Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 77% 4/5 EDIT “It offers us a provocation, a jeu d’ésprit of outrage, a psychological meltdown that is more astutely articulated than in many another more solemnly intended film. And it gives us what it promises in the title.” – Guardian Mar 31, 2026 Full Review Night Stage (2025) 85% 3/5 EDIT “It is a film which interestingly sets out to strain its own credibility, but it is also extravagant and subversive.” – Guardian Mar 30, 2026 Full Review Redoubt (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Denis Lavant is an intriguing and vulnerable presence, somewhere between Quasimodo and Nosferatu, in this beautifully shot monochrome feature from Swedish artist, photographer and film-maker John Skoog.” – Guardian Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Underland (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “There are some arresting questions and potent images in Rob Petit’s ruminative essay-documentary Underland.” – Guardian Mar 25, 2026 Full Review The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) 96% 4/5 EDIT “A thoroughly likable and sweet-natured family fantasy film for the Easter holidays, with acres of innocent jollity and eccentric quirkiness.” – Guardian Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Killer (1989) 96% 4/5 EDIT “John Woo’s 1989 thriller is a reminder of the director’s habit of hitching the craziest of mayhem to a mile-wide streak of earnest emotionalism and sentimentality; a strong and under-acknowledged part of why his films are so addictive.” – Guardian Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Midwinter Break (2026) 63% 5/5 EDIT “There is often something soft and fuzzy and depressing in the wrong way about these films’ lenient sunset-sentimentalism -- but not so with Polly Findlay’s fiercely sad, spiky and wonderfully acted film.” – Guardian Mar 19, 2026 Full Review The Straight Story (1999) 95% 4/5 EDIT “The Straight Story is a heartwarmer of the sort that Lynch arguably hadn’t attempted since his version of The Elephant Man in 1980, and this was without that element of the grotesque.” – Guardian Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Zulu Dawn (1979) 56% 3/5 EDIT “The British lost, but in terms of the contest between interest and boredom, it’s a draw.” – Guardian Mar 12, 2026 Full Review A Pale View of Hills (2025) 63% 2/5 EDIT “It is a bland, soggy film whose contrived and anticlimactic surprise ending is not delivered with a clear satisfying twist.” – Guardian Mar 11, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 44% 2/5 EDIT “A pale imitation.” – Guardian Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Dust (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Handsomely produced and shot, and impeccably acted. But it’s also weirdly parochial, leaving you with the sense that it has not reached beyond its immediate concerns.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review The Education of Jane Cumming (2026) 4/5 EDIT “This very well acted film is an astringent and commonsensical account of what in all probability happened in private as well as in public: a story of race, class, sexuality and empire.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “This is a Hail Mary pass that Gosling just about manages to catch.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% 4/5 EDIT “It is all so bizarre that you have to enjoy it and it makes those of us of a certain generation nostalgic for watching VHS rental tapes on a Friday night.” – Guardian Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Soul to Soul (1971) 4/5 EDIT “This is a film in which there is no tension and no debate; there is a broad celebratory unity. ” – Guardian Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Maybe you have to be fully invested in the TV show to really like it, although this canonisation of Tommy is a sentimental treatment of what we actually know of crime gangs in the second world war. Nevertheless, it is a resoundingly confident drama.” – Guardian Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 4/5 EDIT “Without Buckley, this would have been lacking; with her, it’s a very bizarre and enjoyable spectacle of married bliss.” – Guardian Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “The film perhaps suffers from a loss of nerve about how villainous to make the villain, but it zaps along very entertainingly.” – Guardian Mar 2, 2026 Full Review
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