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Gentle Monster (2026) 80% 4/5 EDIT “This is a bleak, pessimistic film with two excellent lead performances.” – Guardian May 15, 2026 Full Review All of a Sudden (2026) 100% 3/5 EDIT “It’s tender and sometimes beautifully made, but also contrived and occasionally features some too-good-to-be-true caring characters. Frankly, it’s rather precious.” – Screen International May 15, 2026 Full Review Parallel Tales (2026) 19% 3/5 EDIT “It’s intriguing and acted with conviction, and those sound effects are food for thought: the fake overdubs essential for creating reality.” – Guardian May 14, 2026 Full Review Agon (2025) 4/5 EDIT “It is ice-cold and detached, almost without dialogue in the conventionally dramatic sense, other than the subdued exchanges which we, as audience, overhear rather than listen to. It accumulates its own kind of desolate force.” – Guardian May 14, 2026 Full Review Fatherland (2026) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Here is an impossibly elegant, poised historical vignette whose brevity and control can hardly contain its characters’ personal and historical pain.” – Guardian May 14, 2026 Full Review Space Jam (1996) 46% 3/5 EDIT “This deeply peculiar high concept is more or less kept upright by the sterling work of Wayne Knight, playing Jordan’s nerdy beta-assistant, and a laid-back cameo from Bill Murray, channelling some of his Caddyshack energy.” – Guardian May 14, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Terrifically exhilarating and funny, as bracing as a large vodka and tonic before lunch: fast, literate and funny with a key plot progression elliptically and unsentimentally managed.” – Guardian May 14, 2026 Full Review A Woman's Life (2026) 88% 3/5 EDIT “There is something a little feeble about the final fade-out to all this, but Drucker keeps it ticking over.” – Guardian May 14, 2026 Full Review Normal (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “It’s entertaining and bizarre chaos, anchored by Odenkirk’s hangdog air of gloomy resignation to the violent mess which he has to clean up.” – Guardian May 13, 2026 Full Review Nagi Notes (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Japanese film-maker Kôji Fukada has created a film of great lucidity and calm, a walking-pace drama.” – Guardian May 13, 2026 Full Review Butterfly Jam (2026) 56% 2/5 EDIT “The film sags into sentimentality. Keoghan and Keough have moments of vehemence and eloquence, but this is a misfire.” – Guardian May 13, 2026 Full Review The Electric Kiss (2026) 59% 2/5 EDIT “The cantering momentum of this film is rather stymied by lengthy flashbacks which show us Irène herself, played by Vimala Pons; she is no mere simpering muse but a shrewdly educated lover of art whose emotional life is more unexpected than we thought. ” – Guardian May 12, 2026 Full Review Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition (2026) 83% 3/5 EDIT “It’s cheerful and watchable, if a relentlessly on-brand fan promo, corporately policed and controlled, using vintage archive photos and video rather than closeup talking-head footage of the band now.” – Guardian May 6, 2026 Full Review Jimpa (2025) 52% 2/5 EDIT “Sophie Hyde has directed an earnestly intended but very indulgent film... it blandly congratulates itself on its sensitivity and cathartic honesty, but is without the spark of her 2019 quarterlifecrisis comedy Animals.” – Guardian May 6, 2026 Full Review Self Driver (2024) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Though flawed and in need of some script development, adds up to a pertinent satirical comment on the gig economy and the Waymo-isation of the service industry.” – Guardian May 4, 2026 Full Review Kokuho (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “The action is elegantly interspersed with kabuki performances.” – Guardian May 4, 2026 Full Review Highlander (1986) 70% 4/5 EDIT “Those who can indulge it will find it uniquely quirky, funny and eccentrically ambitious.” – Guardian May 4, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 89% 3/5 EDIT “It is an amusing and gruesome premise, which writer-director Damian McCarthy stretches out into a convoluted, bizarre extended narrative involving two separate hospital stays for Ohm.” – Guardian May 4, 2026 Full Review Wild Foxes (2025) 94% 3/5 EDIT “There are a lot of ideas and images swirling around this film; they don’t all gel... But the acting, physical presence and energy of Camille and his crew deliver a real punch.” – Guardian Apr 29, 2026 Full Review ADA - My Mother the Architect (2024) 4/5 EDIT “Architect turned film-maker Yael Melamede presents us with this insightful, though perhaps faintly indulgent, portrait of her mother, Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melamede. ” – Guardian Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC (2026) 4/5 EDIT “Although no amount of revisionist gallantry can conceal how terrible Yoko Ono’s vocals are, this has a historical fascination as they were Lennon’s only full-length concert performances after the Beatles’ split. ” – Guardian Apr 29, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% 3/5 EDIT “This is good-natured, buoyant entertainment. It’s wearing well.” – Guardian Apr 29, 2026 Full Review The Sheep Detectives (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “With a touch of Watership Down somewhere in the mix, this film, for some, may be off-putting. Actually, it makes for a sweet-natured family comedy, and a spiky and amusing cameo from Emma Thompson certainly doesn’t hurt.” – Guardian Apr 27, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “This is an elegant, chilly dream of despair.” – Guardian Apr 22, 2026 Full Review Top Gun (1986) 56% 4/5 EDIT “It's all very silly, though it's impossible not to feel some affection for this film: Cruise's pure, strenuous earnestness, the disconcerting laser focus of his stare, and the video-game combat sequences with the MiGs.” – Guardian Apr 21, 2026 Full Review
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