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4/5
The Killer (1989) Peter Bradshaw John Woo’s 1989 thriller is a reminder of the director’s habit of hitching the craziest of mayhem to a mile-wide streak of earnest emotionalism and sentimentality; a strong and under-acknowledged part of why his films are so addictive.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Midwinter Break (2026) Peter Bradshaw There is often something soft and fuzzy and depressing in the wrong way about these films’ lenient sunset-sentimentalism -- but not so with Polly Findlay’s fiercely sad, spiky and wonderfully acted film.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Trains (2024) Phil Hoad Like Koyaanisqatsi with an Interrail pass, this often-fascinating documentary -- constructed entirely of archival footage, with no voiceover -- surveys the sweeping 20th-century changes ushered in by steam trains.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Benjamin Lee Like the original, it is a film more interested in creating merchandisable Funko Pops than actual characters, obsessing over imagery that doggedly insists its icon-worthy status over people we ever really care about.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Derek Malcolm For me, what starts off as a goodish thriller ends up a bad case of bats in the belfry. Joe Dante's Inferno, in fact.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Arco (2025) Leslie Felperin For a film about the inevitable eradication of most life on Earth, Arco isn’t as depressing as you might expect, as it finds a tiny thread of optimism to hold on to.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Abode (2025) Leslie Felperin Characterisation rarely rouses itself above stereotype-peddling here; at least it’s (mostly) in focus.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Land of Sometimes (2025) Catherine Bray Sigh. Not to moan about how things were better in the good old days, things have clearly moved backwards in kid-aimed animation, so now we routinely get this sort of ersatz DreamWorks storyworld where everything looks like a screensaver.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Last Supper (2025) Leslie Felperin It’s disappointing that it didn’t take a bold leap and present a film that consists solely of the supper itself in real time, perhaps lingering on the culinary aspects of the meal and the chitchat between the disciples seated further away from Jesus.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Scott Tobias What remains surprising about The Howling is how lightly it carries itself.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Dead Lover (2025) Mike McCahill It is perhaps too much the acquired taste (and smell) to appeal to everyone, but it’s distinctive, never dull and -- much like its most noxious niffs -- difficult to shake.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Daggers Inn (2025) Catherine Bray This isn’t action-packed, it’s not intriguing as a mystery, and there’s no momentum. One hour in, a character says: “This keeps happening. It needs to end now.” Quite.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Past Life (2025) Phil Hoad Barnard is left giving a one-dimensional performance, compared with the notes of haughty defensiveness with which Piven props up his character. But it remains watchable throughout, if not in the same mesmeric class as the likes of Danny Boyle’s Trance.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Plastic Detox (2026) Jack Seale Do viewers of documentaries like this one really change their own lifestyles after watching them? The Plastic Detox states it plainly: we really should, and most of us have a lot of work to do.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Bouchra (2025) Phuong Le Far from reiterating tired binaries -- tradition versus modernity, elders versus youngsters -- the film embraces the beauty of contradictions with open arms
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 3 (1993) Derek Malcolm Draws its characters with all the carelessness of an enterprise which knows full well that nobody much cares providing the special effects are up to par.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Straight Story (1999) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Zulu Dawn (1979) Peter Bradshaw The British lost, but in terms of the contest between interest and boredom, it’s a draw.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Reminders of Him (2026) Adrian Horton Reminders of Him does, in fact, remind of that earlier time, when It Ends With Us over-delivered on sweeping sentimentality, a brief glow before everything curdled. We cannot go back there, but I’ve heard far less pleasurable echoes.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
A Pale View of Hills (2025) Peter Bradshaw It is a bland, soggy film whose contrived and anticlimactic surprise ending is not delivered with a clear satisfying twist.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Peter Bradshaw A pale imitation.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Lucy Mangan This evidence of ordinary humanity is what makes the rest so depressing.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Bodycam (2025) Leslie Felperin There is an undeniable energy and spookiness to this low-budget chiller, which makes intelligently modest use of digital FX in a way that some bigger-budget projections would do well to emulate.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Blueberry dreams (2023) Leslie Felperin Given the subject matter, this -- unsurprisingly -- is a work of stately, meditative pacing but never so slow-moving as to feel soporific.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Learning You (2026) Leslie Felperin Director Tyler Sansom and his team of screenwriters flail around trying to pull the storylines together, but still forget to create coherent reasons for characters to move from one situation to another.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Derek Malcolm The film has little of the flair brought to the original by Paul Verhoeven. It's more than a bit robotic itself.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Dust (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Education of Jane Cumming (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Molly vs The Machines (2026) Cath Clarke In the end, it’s the interviews with those who loved Molly that give the film its power and precision.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Floodland (2025) Luke Buckmaster Floodland is equal parts human and environmental: a vivid portrait of a landscape and various lives shaped by it.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Hunting Jessica Brok (2025) Catherine Bray It seems to have fallen prey to one of the stupidest of modern issues in cinema: a luxuriously padded run time.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Peter Bradshaw This is a Hail Mary pass that Gosling just about manages to catch.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hard-Boiled (1992) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Bad Voodoo (2026) Catherine Bray As for any cultural sensitivities around portrayal of voodoo … on the whole this enterprise is so unrelated to reality that it would feel like getting mad at a child’s drawing.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Great Arch (2025) Phil Hoad The crushingly downbeat ending is intriguing -- a sobering exposé of the supposed Gallic cult of the artist.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Scarlet (2025) Phil Hoad Scarlet doesn’t exactly rise to the lyrical heights of Shakespearean humanism -- no matter how many times it presses its hero to learn to “forgive”.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
War Machine (2026) Benjamin Lee It makes for a slicker-than-usual streaming premiere, an easy, drink-your-way-through-it Friday night option for those who wish to remain entirely unchallenged.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) Guardian Staff "Anastasia" may be obvious fiction but it is well-written, superbly acted, and, all in all, a convincing, nostalgic and pathetic drama.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Breaking Social (2023) Cath Clarke Its energy and sense of possibilism is infectious -- and historian Bregman is a joy, with his cuddly nuggets of wisdom.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mother's Pride (2025) Mike McCahill There surely has to be a stronger case for preserving our pubs than “last refuge for middle-aged depressives”. Ken Loach and Paul Laverty almost did it with 2023’s The Old Oak, but Moorcroft’s mild variant is weak beer, to say the least.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Soul to Soul (1971) Peter Bradshaw This is a film in which there is no tension and no debate; there is a broad celebratory unity.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Play Dead (2025) Catherine Bray The plot becomes loopier and although this film is not trying to do anything that hasn’t worked perfectly well in other, better horror movies, the technique of piling on trope after trope doesn’t result in something that cumulatively becomes scarier.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Dolly (2025) Leslie Felperin It’s a bit of a snooze, but Therese is very good at channelling terror and distress; she really gets to go hog wild with those modes at the end in one long tribute to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Guardian Staff The energy of the film-making is in its favour and so are a few of the lines.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Dunblane Tapes (2026) Lucy Mangan The documentary to mark the event’s anniversary, The Dunblane Tapes, retells the story as quietly and unsensationally as you would hope.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Peter Bradshaw Without Buckley, this would have been lacking; with her, it’s a very bizarre and enjoyable spectacle of married bliss.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Guardian Staff Nevertheless the film is a hilarious fantasy and Miss Hepburn's Holly is a persistent, unpredictable delight - with the absurdities of her Anglo-French lingo and of her fashionably outrageous attire.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Worldbreaker (2025) Leslie Felperin Pondering what all this means in terms of contemporary concepts of masculinity is much more interesting than the film itself, which feels very much like something lifted wholesale from video game culture.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025) Phil Hoad The film does look undeniably lush, straddling the range from kawaii cuddliness for the primary-school changelings, to a decorous high-fantasy register in halcyon backlighting.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
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