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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
The Rip (2026) James Croot While somewhat tonally different to the likes of Good Will Hunting, Dogma, The Last Duel and Air, there’s no doubting this trades heavily on the bromantic chemistry between the two Cambridge, Massachusetts-raised 50-somethings.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Nouvelle Vague (2025) James Croot At times, this entertaining dramatisation of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 cinematic debut Breathless feels more like The Disaster Artist or Ed Wood than Mank.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Graeme Tuckett The Secret Agent is stuffed full of spellbinding performances and some exceptional plotting and writing, all shot and soundtracked like some lost classic that should be sitting on every cinephile's shelf next to The Conversation and Point Blank.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Graeme Tuckett Marty Supreme is just a hell of a ride. It is breathlessly paced, sometimes frightening, blackly hilarious and probably destined to be remembered as an early classic of the 21st century.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Grow (2025) Graeme Tuckett Grow is loads of fun. It gets across the screen at a good pace, the writing is sharp enough to blur most of the contrivances, and the cast are all top-shelf comedic talent.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hamnet (2025) Graeme Tuckett Hamnet is a beautifully made and performed piece of work. Yes, it is contrived and manipulative, but it is still a film that needs to be watched and committed to.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Graeme Tuckett DaCosta and her crew, working from a script that packs in ideas and set pieces that Garland has maybe been dreaming of for years, have delivered a lean, cruel, blatantly satiric and darkly funny movie.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Graeme Tuckett Song Sung Blue is a well-made and affectionate film with its heart in the right place. It sticks closely enough to the genuine chronology to occasionally feel a bit lumpy and haphazard. Which I like.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Graeme Tuckett The script feels like a response to a ChatGPT prompt, the animation is mostly lifeless and the subtle, clever and affectionate in-jokes and gags that once made SpongeBob so indelibly special and beloved are missing in action.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Graeme Tuckett This is a superb film, warm, funny as hell when it needs to be, and heartbreaking when it has earned the right. But most of all, Sentimental Value is insightful and understanding about love, family and loss.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rental Family (2025) James Croot This is a heartfelt, thought-provoking, upbeat story featuring a terrific turn from newcomer Gorman and anchored by a fabulous performance from the resurgent Fraser.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Marching Band (2024) Graeme Tuckett Courcol packs a lot of story into his 104 minutes, but My Brothers Band always feels like it is unfolding at exactly the right pace.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Housemaid (2025) Graeme Tuckett Even though it ticks a few boxes and Seyfried is trying her damndest, this is too long-winded and flabbily assembled to ever join the classics of the genre.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Family McMullen (2025) James Croot Family offers undemanding, entertaining viewing, a few laughs, engaging characters and a mix of cynicism and heart that’s truly hard not to like.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) James Croot It might not exactly be cheery Christmas viewing, but Goodbye June certainly offers plenty of food for thought and makes for a compelling watch.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) James Croot 2025’s answer to Spirited, The Naughty Nine or Hot Frosty, this European misadventure by the trilling trio is the unexpected surprise/breakout hit of this year’s line-up.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Tinsel Town (2025) James Croot Misunderstandings, pomposity and double entendres abound.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Oh. What. Fun. (2025) James Croot Thankfully it’s closer in sensibilities and laughs-per-minute to Happiest Season or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation than Christmas With the Kranks or The Family Stone.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
My Secret Santa (2025) James Croot Fans of physical comedy, function disasters and wardrobe malfunctions will lap this up, while the chemistry between the leads is best described as crackling.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025) James Croot The Alicia Silverstone renaissance continues with the former Clueless and Batman & Robin star front and centre in this predictable, but amiable farce.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Jingle Bell Heist (2025) James Croot A thoroughly enjoyable rom-com that offers something a little different to the traditional festive fare.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
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