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Hollywood Boulevard
(1976)
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Russell Davies
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Even a mock-terrible picture needs careful writing.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere
(2026)
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Barbara Ellen
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The entire project feels behind the curve -- straggling previous documentaries, including last year's Men of the Manosphere from James Blake.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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How to Make a Killing
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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With How to Make a Killing, Powell, who has thus far coasted on impeccable bone structure and affable cheesiness -- he always seems to be on the brink of winking at the camera and pulling finger guns -- may have finally run out of momentum.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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The Tasters
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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The picture’s main strength, aside from the meticulous costume and production design, is its thoughtful depiction of the dynamics of female friendship at a time of crisis.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Reminders of Him
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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While not quite as brain-atrophying as Regretting You, Reminders of Him is still pretty dismal.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Everybody To Kenmure Street
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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The rough-and-ready aesthetic of this account of a grassroots act of resistance -- it is largely sourced from camera phone footage -- belies the film’s dexterous editing and elegant interweaving of social history and ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Show Me Love
(1998)
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Philip French
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This is a modest, amusing, truthful picture with two delightful central performances.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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RoboCop 2
(1990)
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Philip French
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It is messily and often perfunctorily handled, the humour is now more arch than ironic, and the images lack the clean, hard look that made RoboCop resemble a comic-strip epic.
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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Mother's Pride
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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This is an underdog tale straining so hard to be endearing that it’s more likely to pull a muscle than tug a heartstring.
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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With its muscular music choices, slick CGI and a gruesomely inventive use for a yard full of stolen pigs, the film doesn’t break new ground, but it should sate the bloodlust of fans.
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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Hoppers
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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After an uneven run of high-concept science fiction and fantasy stories -- Lightyear, Elio, Elemental, Inside Out 2 -- Pixar has come back down to Earth with this inventive eco-adventure. And it’s a delight.
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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This gorgeously debauched film amounts to a chaotic, an uneven but oddly beautiful collision of ideas, all captured by an agitated camera as electrically charged as the life force that reanimates the bride herself.
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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Anastasia
(1956)
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C.A. Lejeune
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The scene of this meeting in Copenhagen is the high-spot of the film, beautifully played by Ingrid Bergman and Helen Hayes.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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Phantom Lady
(1944)
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C.A. Lejeune
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American murder mystery, which sometimes seems to have ideas above its station. The acting, though, restores the balance.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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RoboCop
(1987)
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Philip French
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[RoboCop] use special effects in a purposive, witty manner and has an outrageous sense of humour.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961)
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Penelope Gilliatt
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The book observes the streak of cold brutality that is often present in the romantic; the film merely sees the vivacity and sweetness of Audrey Hepburn.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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This is a piece of extraordinarily visceral film-making by Laxe.
Posted Mar 03, 2026
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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While it is unlikely to tell you much you don’t already know, this is a must-see for Presley fans and a boisterously enjoyable watch even for Elvis agnostics.
Posted Mar 03, 2026
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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The true test of a Scream movie is the quality of the villain behind the Ghostface mask. By that metric, this instalment is thin gruel indeed.
Posted Mar 03, 2026
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All You Need Is Kill
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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The story might be familiar but the dazzling animation makes it well worth a return visit.
Posted Mar 03, 2026
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Sense and Sensibility
(1995)
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Philip French
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In its visual style and uniformly excellent performances this exquisitely poised film captures Austen's realism, detachment and moral irony, and Emma Thompson's screenplay is a masterful exercise in adaptation.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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Wasteman
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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McMau’s lean, light-footed direction combines handheld camera with phone footage to visceral and nerve-racking effect.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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A raggedly plotted adventure that feels like a knockoff of a middling Black Mirror episode. A film about the perils of technology for people who are intimidated by the control panel on their toaster.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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Cold Storage
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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What the film lacks in budget (some of the special effects are on the schlocky side), it makes up for in propulsive energy and sizzling chemistry between the leads.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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The Moment
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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A blunt-edged satire that doesn’t always seem clear about the point it is trying to make, or to have much of a grasp of pacing and structure. But Charli XCX is a captivating presence who has no problem skewering the absurdities of celebrity.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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Inventive, needling use of sound and the blurring of reality and fantasy take us under the skin of a woman at breaking point. It’s an impressive, immersive piece of film-making -- and a profoundly uncomfortable watch.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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Canadian Bacon
(1995)
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Philip French
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The film is only sporadically funny, though it never pulls its punches.
Posted Feb 22, 2026
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Mortal Kombat
(1995)
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Philip French
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This picture is based on a best-selling video game, though I could believe that it was inspired by Jayne Austin's novel "Sententiousness and Insensitivity."
Posted Feb 22, 2026
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Nine Months
(1995)
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Philip French
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Dull, frenetic and forced, it's one of the unfunniest comedies of recent years.
Posted Feb 22, 2026
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Clueless
(1995)
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Philip French
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Heckerling does not labour the parallels with "Emma," but they give an extra dimension to her buoyant flm and suggest the nature of the enterprise.
Posted Feb 22, 2026
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The Postman
(1994)
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Philip French
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Il Postino is Radford's best film since his feature debut, Another Time, Another Place. At times a trifle sentimental, and rather drawn out towards the end, it is a warm and generous picture.
Posted Feb 22, 2026
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Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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This is a poetic and strikingly beautiful work: it looks like a shimmering watercolour painting. It combines moments of playful, droll humour with darker themes, such as bereavement, grief and the still-fresh scars of the second world war.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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Berg’s deftly edited picture strikes a balance, acknowledging the impact of a largely fatherless childhood without labouring the tragic parallels between the son and the man who came before him.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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Crime 101
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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It’s pacy and slick. And as you would hope from a film that makes a point of namechecking the Steve McQueen car chase classic Bullitt, the asphalt of LA’s downtown highways takes some serious punishment.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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The President's Cake
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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This is an impressive first feature from the writer-director Hasan Hadi, a sharply observed, bittersweet, child’s-eye odyssey that avoids cute-kid cliches.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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At the Sea
(2026)
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Jonathan Romney
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This is the kind of film in which characters express their agonies with bursts of interpretative dancing. It could almost have been cooked up by a big Hollywood studio expressly to discredit the very idea of arthouse cinema.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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Chocolat
(2000)
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Philip French
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Everything comes easy in this movie -- love, reconciliation, redemption, re-creation and even death. It's also an easy film to enjoy.
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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Pretty in Pink
(1986)
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Philip French
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There are some good lines and uniformly strong performances.
Posted Feb 14, 2026
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The Investigation of Lucy Letby
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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With no new revelations pertaining to the case, the main talking point from this documentary looks likely to be the footage of the arrests. Bar the noise and the rubbernecking, there is little of real substance to add about the harrowing case.
Posted Feb 10, 2026
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Wuthering Heights
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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This is less a respectful literary adaptation than a come-hither invitation to crawl down the cinema aisle on all fours and lick the screen. I enjoyed it immensely.
Posted Feb 10, 2026
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Send Help
(2026)
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Wendy Ide
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It’s enjoyably lurid stuff, and McAdams is a blast. It’s just a pity that a third-act twist seems a little too familiar.
Posted Feb 10, 2026
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The Chronology of Water
(2025)
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Wendy Ide
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It’s not an easy watch, but this celebration of unlovely femininity -- of bodies that leak blood and pain -- is a perfect fit for Stewart, who has repeatedly been drawn to women who refuse to fit tidily into society.
Posted Feb 10, 2026
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(2000)
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Philip French
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What makes it an exciting kinetic experience in the cinema is the epic sweep, the contrast between the serene beauty of the settings and the astonishing action sequences.
Posted Feb 10, 2026
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Erin Brockovich
(2000)
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Philip French
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It has a sparkling script by Susannah Grant, is superbly photographed by Ed Lachman and gracefully edited by Anne V. Coates. But the movie is dominated by Julia Roberts as Erin.
Posted Feb 06, 2026
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A Face in the Crowd
(1957)
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John Gillett
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This savage satire deals mercilessly with the excesses of comercial television and fan hysteria.
Posted Feb 05, 2026
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Vanishing Point
(1971)
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Tom Milne
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Fairly predictable and fairly dispiriting.
Posted Feb 05, 2026
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Days of Heaven
(1978)
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Philip French
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It is through objects and through the physical world that this wonderfully contrived picture moves us, not through its characters, who remain distant and shadowy.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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Camille
(1936)
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C.A. Lejeune
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Camille reveals, as no film before it, the curious conflict between bone and spirit that is so much the mainspring of Garbo's power.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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Ace in the Hole
(1951)
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C.A. Lejeune
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There is nothing wrong with Ace in the Hole except that, in its alleged design of discrediting sensationalism, it is utterly and unashamedly sensational itself, and leaves one with the arid feeling that the only really bad stunt is the unsuccessful one.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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Arabesque
(1966)
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Penelope Gilliatt
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Every joke is an ogle, and every third line should have been cut.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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