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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Philip Concannon Often perceptive and heartfelt as a portrait of a marriage in a rut, and a refreshing change of pace for its director.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The History of Sound (2025) Josh Slater-Williams The History of Sound feels too muted in its direction and pacing for many stretches of its runtime, but [its] epilogue with Cooper proves very effective in bringing palpable passion and crucial context.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hamnet (2025) Stefania Sarrubba Gasping for the authenticity of the filmmaker’s previous works, Hamnet ultimately alienates as it searches for a tempo and a truth of its own.
Posted Jan 18, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Eilidh Akilade Peter Hujar’s Day is an exercise in listening, and it is a joy to practice with Rosenkrantz.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Stefania Sarrubba In a host of beautifully restrained performances, Renate Reinsve delivers another knockout turn. More than a virtual sequel to The Worst Person in the World, Sentimental Value peels layers off the Messy Woman cliché with devastating honesty.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Ben Nicholson Revenge has rarely felt as searingly political, ethically complex, or unabashedly absurd as in Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Cover-Up (2025) Carmen Paddock While not a complete portrait of a man or the recent epochs of US history, Cover-Up gets to the rotten heart of US journalism, where ‘self-censorship of the press’ hollows out the country’s illusion of transparency, freedom and fairness.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Stefania Sarrubba [Ethan] Hawke is excellent as the exquisitely eloquent, flawed protagonist who's badly concealing his fragilities under layers of dark humour, hedonism and alcohol.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Pillion (2025) Xuanlin Tham Pillion largely plays like a rom-com, giving familiar beats a fresh and explicit spin. Its sweetness works in tandem with, rather than against, its unflinching sexuality.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Carmen Paddock A mediocre Rian Johnson mystery is still a great time. Josh O’Connor’s Father Jud affirms the actor’s leading man credentials, and his ease with physical comedy is the film’s highlight.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Good Boy (2025) Ben Nicholson A nerve-jangling haunted house story with one of the all-time great canine performances.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Hard Times (1975) Lewis Porteous There's a purity to the movie's simple premise and the sense of inevitability with which its narrative unfolds.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
All the Devils Are Here (2025) Carmen Paddock Barnaby Roper's entry into the British crime drama canon is less concerned with the actual act of crime and more with its fallout – and it's all the better for it.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Happyend (2024) Josh Slater-Williams Sora takes the conventions of coming-of-age stories, especially Japanese school dramas, and infuses them with an air of dread that nonetheless doesn't sour the regular moments of joy, comedy and escapism.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Iana Murray This feminist fairy tale features some of the richest world building you’ll see on such a small scale as Jackman crafts a fantasy world divorced from space and time.
Posted Sep 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Paul and Paulette Take a Bath (2024) Stefania Sarrubba Both protagonists are underwritten, their inner worlds relayed in voiceover, clichéd exchanges, and Tumblr-worthy tableaux from decades past.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Iana Murray In many ways, Dwayne Johnson is the only person who could’ve embodied this role, but the subtext of casting the most famous wrestler-turned-actor is more interesting than the performance itself.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Frankenstein (2025) Stefania Sarrubba A hasty experiment with a huge budget and stellar cast, Del Toro's Frankenstein drags along like its creature.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Stefania Sarrubba The movie delves into how men are expected to cling to their roles of providers, and crumble under such pressure. Park frames Man-su's descending moral spiral with elegance, with No Other Choice ultimately leaving its resolution to its women.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
After the Hunt (2025) Iana Murray Julia Roberts is superb in one of her best roles in years, masking vulnerability behind an intimidating wall that renders her unreadable, apt for a film concerned with the corrosive power of secrets and the stories we tell about ourselves.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
5
Bugonia (2025) Stefania Sarrubba A reminder of humans' minuscule but devastating role in the world, Bugonia is a blast of a bigger picture that turns the threat of annihilation into a real treat.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
I Live Here Now (2025) Josh Slater-Williams Less a demonstration of just how interconnected disparate forms of pain and trauma can be, and more that a promising young director could stand to leave some eggs out of an overflowing basket of ideas.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Ross McIndoe There’s nothing particularly daring or dangerous about the film, and while the largely practical effects are enjoyably old-school, the action sequences they’re deployed in service of aren’t all that inspired.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Golden Spurtle (2025) Jamie Dunn An incredibly funny film, with most of the comedy emanating from the disconnect between the competitors’ passion for creating the perfect bowl of porridge and the inherent futility of such an endeavour.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Life of Chuck (2024) Carmen Paddock The juxtaposition of form and content, presentation and possibility, reality and dream is an unmistakable directorial stamp on King’s worlds and characters. It will not work for all viewers, but the retelling is richer for it.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) Ross McIndoe It's not just crime doc conventions that Zodiac Killer Project dissects, but the economic factors driving the industry and the ethical questions that plague it.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
In Transit (2025) Carmen Paddock Alex Sarrigeorgiou’s script and the film's well-matched performances are wholly cognisant of the wreckage of selfishness, and In Transit does not sugarcoat the fallout and interpersonal collateral damage.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Brides (2025) Stefania Sarrubba Brides attempts to fill the gaps and find some shreds of empathy in sensationalised news stories, striking a chord with tenderness and levity.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Christy (2025) Ross McIndoe The world [Christy] brings us is grey, run-down and uninspiring, an easy place for a person to stagnate. But it’s also full of vibrant personalities, and people who dearly love being wrapped up in each other’s lives.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Islands (2025) Carmen Paddock Unfortunately, the central mystery of Islands does not pay off, and the film is far better as a study of trapped characters within the liminal space of Canary Island holidays than it is a psychological thriller.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
After This Death (2025) Jamie Dunn Castro demonstrates a deft command of tone as the atmosphere shifts imperceptibly from realism to something more off-kilter.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Little Trouble Girls (2025) Eleanor Capaldi Lingering moments are paired with floral motifs, one of many uses of poetic symbolism that punctuate the narrative... Against a local order of sin, penance and celibacy, Lucia's intuitive pursuits with Ana-Maria stand in freeing, forbidden contrast.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Young Mothers (2025) Philip Concannon There are no easy answers here, but there's so much compassion; the Dardennes' ability to elicit stunningly real performances from young actors is peerless.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sorry, Baby (2025) Carmen Paddock A poignant exploration of far-too-common traumas, acted in surprising and beautiful ways by a cast who clearly trust the material and each other.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Bring Her Back (2025) Stefania Sarrubba In a sea of legacy sequels and rehashed IP horror, Bring Her Back heralds a fresh era of scares that deserves the biggest of screens and the crispest sound system.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Rebuilding (2025) Jamie Dunn Like a country ballad, there’s something undeniably moving in Rebuilding’s almost naive hopefulness.
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Harvest (2024) Carmen Paddock Smatterings of the earthy, the occult, the hallucinatory and the neo-realist never coalesce into a pacy narrative, despite an explosive, barn-burning opening... This is folk horror without enough of either to satisfy.
Posted Jul 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Broken Voices (2025) Jamie Dunn Set in the early 90s and shot on 16mm with an earthy colour palette, Broken Voices’ visuals call to mind a faded Polaroid, but the distance in time evoked in the aesthetic doesn’t dampen the film’s power.
Posted Jul 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Out of Love (2025) Jamie Dunn Ambrosioni has coaxed smart and nuanced turns from young Varvat and Birman – they deliver two of the sharpest child performances in recent memory – but what most distinguishes Ambrosioni’s approach is his openhearted humanism.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Luminous Life (2025) Jamie Dunn Rosas’s filmmaking style is as easy-going and charming as his lead character [...] but this breezy portrait of youthful romance is far from lightweight.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Other Way Around (2024) Ross McIndoe But even once you’ve understood the point of it all, watching the same thing repeatedly recurring simply isn’t that interesting – no matter what Kierkegaard said.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) Josh Slater-Williams Hosoda's thoroughly charming, beautifully bittersweet coming-of-age time-travel tale masterfully taps into fears that plague most of us well beyond the age of its teenage protagonist.
Posted Jul 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Shrouds (2024) Stefania Sarrubba Cronenberg crafts a paranoid, eroticised nightmare about the ethical and environmental implications of technology in both life and death.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Tornado (2025) Carmen Paddock With arrestingly austere cinematography by Robbie Ryan and strong performances across the cast, Tornado brings out the wildest, most lawless side of samurai stories, which Tornado and her father, Fujin (Takehiro Hira), perform as travelling puppeteers.
Posted Jun 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) Stefania Sarrubba Wallis Island is no romcom, or at least not the one you'd expect to see (...) Nell's stubborn refusal to be confined to the 'love interest' box anchors the narrative in more neutral, compelling waters.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bogancloch (2025) Adam Stafford Ben Rivers creates some of the most impressionistic and downright transcendent images in cinema today.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Good One (2024) Carmen Paddock At times a gentle character study and exercise in human foibles, at others a scathing indictment of petty cruelties and gender violence, Good One burrows into the skin like a tick picked up on the trail.
Posted May 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Motel Destino (2024) Philip Concannon The 16mm cinematography from the great cinematographer Hélène Louvart creates a feverish atmosphere, both in the neon-lit interiors and the sun-bleached exteriors, while the constant moans of ecstasy on the soundtrack hilariously add to the mood.
Posted May 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
April (2024) Stefania Sarrubba After just two films, Déa Kulumbegashvili is proving to be an auteur whose distinctive audiovisual language holds an indecipherable, subjective component.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Return (2024) Carmen Paddock Fiennes and Binoche’s performances are the reason to see The Return. Both carry the weight of years of unspoken, unspeakable trauma in their eyes.
Posted Apr 08, 2025  Edit critic review
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