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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) 58% 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) 43% 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) 95% 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) 93% 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) 93% 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 Everybody To Kenmure Street (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s an amazing story of a community triumph, showing how the nasty little habits of domineering policing can be countered by stubbornly British -- and in this case, specifically Scottish -- insistence on justice. It’s a morale-boosting film.” – Guardian Feb 25, 2026 Full Review We Are All Strangers (2026) 91% 4/5 EDIT “There’s some addictively brash storytelling here from Chen, with a page-turning novelistic energy and a marvellous sympathy for the whole cast.” – Guardian Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “You may find yourself wondering why we are going over this ground again, but it's an engaging film, and there is always something mesmeric in McCartney's face: cherubic, and yet sharp and watchful.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Bronstein is brilliant at conveying mounting panic and a terrible, all-consuming sadness.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The Blood Countess (2026) 82% 3/5 EDIT “A succession of bizarre episodes, often engagingly bizarre, sometimes heavy-handed, although it is notable that the script is partly credited to Austria’s Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek who is not known for humour of any sort.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Queen at Sea (2026) 95% 5/5 EDIT “Queen at Sea is a film with a tragic, wintry candour.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Wasteman (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Some of the tropes are familiar, but this film sidesteps the cliches with the committed acting and fierce storytelling punch.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Nightborn (2026) 70% 2/5 EDIT “Some amusing moments, but a disappointment after the excellent Hatching.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Animol (2026) 3/5 EDIT “This is a flawed film, certainly, but with empathy, and strong performances.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rosebush Pruning (2026) 30% 2/5 EDIT “I have to admit to finding it heavy-handed and clumsy more often than not, although there are some good performances, notably from Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review At the Sea (2026) 35% 1/5 EDIT “Here is a quite unbearable curation of first-world problems.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rose (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “This is a film about the power and violence that occupies an invisible stratum below the bürgerlich calm, a stratum which becomes obvious when it is challenged. It’s another outstanding star performance from Hüller.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Chocolat (2000) 63% 2/5 EDIT “The sheer, unmitigated ickiness of the film is what gets you down in the end. That and the supercilious association of chocolate with sex. It's got all the taste and style of "erotic" chocolate body-paint kits on sale at British Home Stores.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review
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