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2.5/5
Solo Mio (2026) James Croot It’s just a pity that James, like his character, becomes lost in what is two-thirds of a good rom-com, one spoiled by a bizarre celebrity cameo and a quartet of irritating, one-dimensional supporting American characters.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Fuze (2025) Graeme Tuckett A clever, old-fashioned and well put together mid-budget thriller, one brought credibly into the 21st century and performed by a top-shelf cast who can actually act.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Graeme Tuckett The Mummy quickly devolves into an Exorcist-based exercise in wringing whatever shocks are still to be found in a possessed-girl-in-the-house scenario, that we haven't all seen a hundred times before.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Deb (2024) James Croot While Wilson the director injects plenty of life into proceedings, this feels like it could have done with some trimming and Wilson the performer’s over-the-top turn feels slightly tonally at odds with everything else.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
undertone (2025) Graeme Tuckett I think there is a world in which Undertone was made as a 45-minute horror anthology episode, and I would love to see a version of the film at that length.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
OBEX (2025) Graeme Tuckett Writing "it's Eraserhead does The Hobbit" was definitely not on my bingo card for this or any year.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
You, Me & Tuscany (2026) Graeme Tuckett Nothing happens you won't see coming a mile off. But, Bailey is fine as perky and unsinkable Anna. Around her, a support cast of Italian veterans are all committed to keeping the wafer-thin storyline delivering its share of laughs.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Outcome (2026) James Croot One wonders if Hill the director shouldn’t have reined in Hill the character actor a touch more, in order to give Outcome a more consistent tone.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) James Croot What follows is essentially Harold and the Purple Crayon crossed with a Star Wars/Austin Powers-esque saga of fathers, sons, sisters and brothers, which strangely sidelines Mario, is overly reliant on montages and simply lacks the original's verve.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Drama (2026) Graeme Tuckett The Drama is a smart film and it deserves an audience. It doesn't quite pull off The Materialists neat trick of being a rom-com, while also deconstructing the entire genre. But it does have plenty on its mind.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The President's Cake (2025) Graeme Tuckett This is a tough little gem of a film. It is beautiful to look at, shot through with flashes of humour and melodrama, and written with a terrifically acute understanding of a child's way of seeing and making sense of the world.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The North (2025) Graeme Tuckett The scenery, naturally, is beyond spectacular. And the story, although it is slight and quietly expressed, is engrossing and moving, in its own faltering way.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) Graeme Tuckett A great documentary about Jeff Buckley has been a long time coming. But Amy Berg's It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley is the real deal, and I think it tells the story in the way it needed to be done.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hoppers (2026) James Croot Director Daniel Chong does a terrific job of balancing the weighty message of humanity’s effect on the environment with knockabout humour and over-the-top action.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
They Will Kill You (2026) Graeme Tuckett The action is inventive and well shot. The jokes and jump-scares land. And the gratifyingly excellent cast are mostly given enough to do.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) Graeme Tuckett The sheer volume of Blyton’s writing blinds people to the fact that most of her books were rubbish. And not even a modern retelling with a top-drawer cast can disguise that.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
I Swear (2025) Graeme Tuckett I Swear is an absolute gem of a film. It is a plea for kindness and patience in a world that diminishes and undermines those qualities every day.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Honey Don't! (2025) James Croot Honey Don’t! won’t be for everyone, but you’ll be missing out on some deliciously dark laughs and another eye-catching performance from one of Hollywood’s hottest actors.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
War Machine (2026) James Croot While thankfully this is no Battlefield Earth, Battle: Los Angeles or Battleship, War Machine doesn’t really offer up many surprising beats as a fairly predictable scenario plays out.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) James Croot If nothing else, this is a reminder of Sweeney’s undoubted talent and chutzpah.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Saipan (2025) James Croot Screenwriter Paul Fraser’s smart script plays up the darkly comedic aspects of this "team trip from hell", to compelling effect.
Posted May 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) James Croot Adding John Wick-esque corporate and political structure to the already Purge-like central conceit does detract a little from the simple chaotic fun of the first Ready.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Graeme Tuckett Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have got a rare gift for mixing up genres, and for making tough concepts easy to follow and fun. They have a major hit on their hands here.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Braveheart (1995) James Croot Braveheart’s secret sauce though is really its magnificent soundtrack. Evocative and complementary in the way a movie soundscape should be, James Horner’s bagpipe, string and percussion-filled score adds to virtually every scene.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Cold Storage (2026) James Croot From the Beach Boys’ scored title sequence to the wildly over the top explosive finale, Cold Storage is a gleefully anarchic and visceral hoot that is clearly designed as a showcase for the charismatic Keery.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Midwinter Break (2026) Graeme Tuckett This is a simple, quiet film, but it is brilliantly performed and assembled. If you have the maturity to hear what it is saying, then I think you might like it very much indeed.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Pillion (2025) Graeme Tuckett Pillion is a hell of a film. It is laugh-out-loud funny, often. But also moving and insightful about everything from male loneliness and dysfunction, to grieving and heartbreak.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
1000 Women in Horror (2025) James Croot Providing plenty of recommendations and inspiration for future viewing, this also successfully manages to deliver reappraisals of some much-maligned movies and the message that "horror is for everyone, because death is for everyone".
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) James Croot Featuring a breathtaking, bravura performance from Byrne, it feels like a combustible, compelling combination of Nightbitch, Shrinking, The Florida Project, Beau is Afraid and Eraserhead.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Sirāt (2025) Graeme Tuckett Sirât is an hallucinatory and nihilistic trip. It is an allegory, I guess. But also a sketch of one corner of the world, and a few perfectly drawn characters who inhabit it. The cinematography - on 16mm film - is exceptional.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Graeme Tuckett The Bride! is a hot blast of fun and a feat of storytelling that gets right up against the ragged edge of derailing in a mess. But Gyllenhaal and her cast keep it all moving forward and the film tumbles across the finish line more or less in one piece.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Scream 7 (2026) James Croot Scream 7 is merely solid, rather than spectacular, slightly disappointing in its lack of laughs and ultimately saddled with a resolution straight out of the Scooby Doo playbook.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Holy Days (2026) Graeme Tuckett The film strains for a laugh in nearly every scene, when a quieter approach, that didn't try so hard to be liked, might have yielded a more real resonance and pay-off.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Graeme Tuckett Studded with songs and dance, it lays out a spiky, idiosyncratic story in a procession of bold and beautifully designed scenes. This is a film I don't think I'll ever forget I have seen. And I can't ask for more than that.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Crime 101 (2026) Graeme Tuckett The story is engrossing, the stakes seem real and that cast is an absolute dream.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bluff (2026) James Croot While this tries desperately to channel A History of Violence and Pirates of the Caribbean – its chaotic storytelling and emphasis on style over substance means it reminded me more of Cutthroat Island and Ballistic: Ecks v Sever.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Fackham Hall (2025) James Croot It is true that most of the best bits are in the trailer, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of fresh delights.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Graeme Tuckett A pile of darkly confected fun.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
GOAT (2026) Graeme Tuckett Goat is a smart, funny and quite beautifully put together movie. It's got its heart in the right place, a fantastic soundtrack and something worthwhile to say.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Show (2026) James Croot While the addition of humans amongst the theatre audience took a little getting used to and this dispelled my long-held notion that Rogen and Fozzie Bear are the same person, this Muppet celebration was an unadulterated triumph.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Mārama (2025) James Croot As this story’s rather telegraphed twists eventually reveal themselves and it all ramps up towards a Grand-Guignol, giallo-esque Gothic nightmare, you begin to wish it hadn’t been quite so heavy-handed.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Graeme Tuckett This is a literate, properly funny, achingly melancholy, joyously filthy and always deeply likeable film.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Graeme Tuckett Leave any expectations you might have at home, and just go and enjoy this "Wuthering Heights" for the bonkers good time that it is.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) James Croot A taut tale reminiscent of The Walking Dead or our own post-apocalyptic antipodean horror The Quiet Earth, it deals in effective chills, rather than full-on undead action.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Shelter (2026) Graeme Tuckett Although we've seen Jason Statham in variations of this film about 20 times over, he can play this role with a kind of zen-like simplicity now.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Graeme Tuckett When the film catches fire - in the scenes between Arnett and Dern, and also in a couple of beautifully calibrated moments between Arnett and Ciarán Hinds, as Alex's taciturn dad - it turns into something quite special.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Send Help (2026) James Croot At the heart of Send Help’s success though is a quite magnificent performance from McAdams. As she proved in Game Night, the Canadian’s ability to mix action with comedy has been sorely under-utilised.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Choral (2025) Graeme Tuckett The Choral is a handful of good scenes, a couple of decent performances and a few great songs, in search of a coherent film. But mostly, not finding one.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Graeme Tuckett This is a wonderful film. The story unfurls in unexpected and raucously comical ways, even though the film is deeply moving and occasionally quite terrifying. ⁠ ⁠
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Wrecking Crew (2026) James Croot Extremely violent, predictably plotted and more than occasionally puerile it may be, it is hard though to dislike a movie with such swagger, chutzpah and the most evocative use of Air Supply since 2010’s Animal Kingdom.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
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