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RoboCop 3 (1993) Sheila Johnston The story feels outdated.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Clarisse Loughrey How to Make a Killing is a conventional remake, replicating many of its characters and narrative beats, while failing to capture any of its frosty charm -- or the trick of having Alec Guinness play eight different characters.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Adam White Ultimately this is an expensive Netflix documentary that’s provided maximum exposure to individuals who consider any kind of attention a win. It leaves a bitter, nasty taste in the mouth.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Waiting for Guffman (1996) Dennis Lim Quite funny in parts, but there's something a little smug and mean-spirited about its reliance on uniformly easy targets.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Kevin Jackson There are intermittent amusements in RoboCop 2, but most of them are drowned out by its numbing violence and countless explosions.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Clarisse Loughrey Here’s a film that’s about as effervescently likeable as it can get... It’s an alchemically perfected blend of past sci-fi greats, with a good dose of Spielberg and Kubrick – familiar without feeling exhausted.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Sheila Johnston RoboCop, like its hero, is well-oiled and nicely calibrated, but you somehow doubt that it has a soul.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Clarisse Loughrey What’s worked before works here just as well. Tommy Shelby persists.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Clarisse Loughrey There’s a playfulness there, and a real burst of imaginative thinking, but Gyllenhaal has regrettably pulled a Frankenstein herself. All those ideas, yet they haven’t quite stitched up together to make a beautiful corpse.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hoppers (2026) Clarisse Loughrey Odd and spiky enough to carve out its own niche. Pixar, certainly, have only benefited from the energetic, expressive influence of anime on western animation. All their creatures leap around the screen like they’ve just been electrocuted.
Posted Mar 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Sheila Johnston While there are no visual pyrotechnics in this movie, one feels that less can sometimes be more.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Patrick Smith At 160 minutes, the film teeters on self-indulgence, but it moves freely from scene to scene, propelled by Mendonça’s energetic camerawork and a performance that elevates Moura to the top table.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Patrick Smith As for the shows themselves, they are electrifying, and Luhrmann, surprisingly, has the restraint to let them breathe.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It’s ideologically flawed, structurally jumbled, and a little too enamoured by its dystopian predecessors. But it’s also sort of wonderfully personal, cranky and spiked -- like an affronted hedgehog trying to repeatedly ram your shin.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Wasteman (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It’s an overwhelming burden for a man to carry. And with Jonsson doing the carrying -- well, we feel every pound of its weight.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It's less performance, more self-administered open heart surgery. Come on, take a look inside -- there's no poeticism and no beautiful agonies, only piles and piles of viscera.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Rosebush Pruning (2026) Geoffrey Macnab This warped satire is ultimately neither as shocking nor as funny as you initially hope it’s going to be.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
At the Sea (2026) Geoffrey Macnab It confirms Mundruczó as a real actor’s director, with a showcase for Adams that will most likely lead her to awards glory this time next year.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Crime 101 (2026) Clarisse Loughrey We can relish in it as a return to the mid-budget thriller, with its marquee of stars and its deployment of LA as a steel and sun-dappled chessboard, without pickling ourselves in our own nostalgia.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Roger Clarke For those who think the martial arts movie consists of nothing more than a drop-kicking gun-for-hire making hay in the box-filled alleys behind Hong Kong restaurants -- well, this might come as a bit of a surprise.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Clarisse Loughrey It uses the guise of interpretation to gut one of the most impassioned, emotionally violent novels ever written, and then toss its flayed skin over whatever romance tropes seem most marketable. Adaptation or not, it’s an astonishingly hollow work.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Melania (2026) Nick Hilton To call "Melania" vapid would do a disservice to the plumes of florid vape smoke that linger around British teenagers.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It’s small in scope and may prove relatively minor in Cooper’s filmography. But, still, the intentions of Is This Thing On? feel worthy.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Send Help (2026) Clarisse Loughrey Send Help becomes the best of both worlds: indulgent Raimi splatter fuelled by a satisfying touch of righteous rage.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Adam Mars-Jones Elijah Wood is very good.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Clarisse Loughrey H Is for Hawk concerns itself less with the healing of wounds, but rather with the prying open of them. Can we look so deep into the pulp that the fear of it eventually washes away?
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It’s a whole slapstick affair, conducted with Park’s trademark finesse, and taking full advantage of Lee’s comedic skills.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Adam Mars-Jones Bening has the ability to let us see one mood or emotion rising through another. Her animation is captivating, but also intelligently nuanced.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Anthony Lane William Goldman has adapted Stephen King's novel for the screen and done it the world of good, or at least brushed up its evil.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) John Lyttle The balance between terror and vicious wit is exquisitely maintained.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Pacific Heights (1990) John Lyttle John Schlesinger's slack, daft thriller is desperately in need of sub-text, a convincing script and firmer construction.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Rental Family (2025) Clarisse Loughrey With Fraser as her figurehead, it’s certainly a work of broad and deep compassion. But there are self-imposed limitations that you’d wish Hikari and her co-writer Stephen Blahut would cross, if not purely out of curiosity.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Mercy (2026) Clarisse Loughrey A baffling piece of work that happily swipes the mood and aesthetics of Hollywood’s police state dystopias (Minority Report, RoboCop, Blade Runner etc), while presenting such horrors as an agreeable norm.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Rip (2026) Clarisse Loughrey It’s a character piece that does very little with its characters, since it’s been afflicted with the Netflix curse of dialogue written exclusively for people who are busy scrolling on their phones.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Kevin Harley The peaks ensure that Return of the King is a rare beast, both as a second sequel that trounces its predecessors and an event movie that rises to its sense of occasion. Giving credit where it's due, it's also vigorous, briskly epic entertainment.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Anthony Quinn Even if part three, The Return of the King, hasn't quite the satisfying thump one would like of a conclusion, Jackson's trilogy has ascended the summit of the Fantasy premiership from which the likes of Star Wars are a speck in the distance.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Adam Mars-Jones Rob Reiner's direction of a mainly young cast is confident, and the film has some small pleasures to offer. But the whole projects seems too calculated.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Clarisse Loughrey [Jack O'Connell] delivers another masterfully villainous performance off the back of last year's Sinners. He understands what's needed to make a vastly complex and elementally evil character like this work.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Thomas Sutcliffe Even at three hours long, the first instalment of Peter Jackson's trilogy is going to demand considerably less of your life than the original... And, as a sequence of images, The Fellowship of the Ring is undeniably dazzling.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Roger Clarke Unfortunately, so many of these plot standards have been looted over the years that everything feels tired and familiar. There are unforgivably dull patches, and, McKellen's Gandalf aside, the characterisation is decidedly thin.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hamnet (2025) Clarisse Loughrey It’s a deeply contemplative film, its candlelit shadows provided by cinematographer Łukasz Żal, as if painted by one of the Dutch masters. The camera focuses on spaces as opposed to people, moving as slowly as curtains drawn across a stage.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Anthony Quinn Reiner has gone for a crowd-pleaser and, in the process, made the least satisfying film of his career.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Kevin Jackson The Princess Bride will delight a lot of audiences, but it doesn't bode at all well for Reiner's future development: what next? Baby Boom II?
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Sheila Johnston ...[the film] grips a series of big issues - patriotism, justice, accountability - by the throat without, however, squeezing too much out of any of them.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Secrets of the Conclave (2025) Annabel Nugent For your religious scholar, maybe this is riveting stuff, but your average viewer will likely find it a bore.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Clarisse Loughrey In Brewer’s hands, their interior worlds are reduced to two modes of existence: triumph and tragedy.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Clarisse Loughrey If it’s a little less messy than we’d hope for with Trier -- well, then it argues beautifully for why it’s a blessing that those messier films exist in the first place.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Hook (1991) Sheila Johnston Spielberg's world has none of the constrictions and conflicts of Edwardian England, no rigid class codes, no dreams that money can't buy. The only poverty is in its imagination.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Housemaid (2025) Clarisse Loughrey The Housemaid isn’t a particularly great film. But it is camp.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Clarisse Loughrey Chaplin is so slinky and strange in the role, a seductress with a blow dart full of hallucinogenic drugs and promethean desires, that she immediately emerges as the film’s standout.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
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