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2/5
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Tim Robey Ready or Not 2 has way fewer laughs than its fun predecessor, zero scares, no surprises, the same old gore, and characters who aren’t even enjoyably loathsome.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Tim Robey The half-ideas at play here suggest a Yorgos Lanthimos twist on A Clockwork Orange, but that pitch could very easily have malfunctioned in exactly the ways this film does.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Keith Nurse An often hilarious film, one which brims over with black humour.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Eric Shorter The film has a literate, journalistic background which carries conviction, and it sends you out of the cinema with a genuine shiver.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Southern Comfort (2001) Simon Horsford This poignant tale comes across as one that needs to be understood...
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Ed Power It is truly grim stuff, but it is never clear whether Theroux’s detached style is the right way of approaching the horrors of the manosphere. The documentary needs more anger and surely more female input.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Robbie Collin Writer-director John Patton Ford...delivers a film that doesn’t so much strike the wrong tone as struggle to strike any tone at all. It isn’t especially funny, and I’m not even sure that it’s meant to be.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Benji Wilson I don’t know how shocking Inside the Manosphere will be to people who are already inside it, but I was gobsmacked and appalled by the extent to which this regressive spiral has been packaged and sold via...tech platforms that should know better.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Hugo Davenport As a cartoon parable of obsolescence, human and mechanical, RoboCop 2 works splendidly, and Irvin Kershner's direction ensures that the film is far from a Roboplod.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Robbie Collin Does it have many original ideas of its own? Perhaps not. But its greatest hits mixtape of other people’s has been compiled with such flair that it’s hard not to be swept up regardless.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hoppers (2026) Robbie Collin Yet Hoppers has the upper hand in a few key respects: it’s breezily funny, commendably fleet and appealingly modest in scale.
Posted Mar 08, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Victoria Mather The pace is fast and exciting and "Robocop" is undeniably entertaining.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Chris Bennion It has verve and swagger and real love for the time and the place. But this is Tommy Shelby and the Peaky Blinders playing their greatest hits on what feels a little like a farewell tour. Those peaks just aren’t as razor-sharp as they used to be.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Tim Robey So much talent has been wasted here (including a stiff Penélope Cruz as “lady detective” Myrna Mallow). And while provocations abound – Frank and the Bride have kinky sex between killing sprees – there’s a shallowness at the film’s core.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Patrick Gibbs Alas, Hollywood has done its best to turn what was a delightfully eccentric character-study into a conventional live story.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Scream 7 (2026) Tim Robey If you’re only after routine jump scares and dangling intestines, be my guest. But I’d take a hiatus of 100 years before Scream 8.
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) James Delingpole Don't let any of my reservations put you off seeing the film. It's everything a big movie romance should be: funny, heartwarming, pretty to look at and stylishly executed.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist (2026) Anita Singh Feature-length documentary Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist...doesn’t quibble with the portrayal of Palmer as a villain. But it is also an intelligent, nuanced take on why the story is more complex than it first appeared.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Neil McCormick The footage is beautifully restored and artfully re-edited, with shots allowed to linger with almost obsessive, erotic attention on their subject. Elvis himself does the rest.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Nine Months (1995) Hugo Davenport Grant overacts throughout, overdoing the boyish charm as another New Man is born, and failing even to trip convincingly on his own trousers.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) Hugo Davenport The film belongs, in a very real sense, to Troisi. Wistful and hesitant, yet capable of an unexpected fire, he brings a wonderful subtlety of nuance to Mario. It is the portrayal of an awakening.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Tim Robey Byrne and Bronstein are a dream team: by zeroing in so expressively on the all-consuming anxieties of a mother, their film becomes strangely relatable to anyone who’s ever had one – not just been one.
Posted Feb 21, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Robbie Collin It is grippingly unpredictable – a film with a glint in its eye and smoke curling from its nostrils and underpants. But you dismiss it, or miss it, at your peril.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Moment (2026) Tim Robey Perhaps Charli intended this as her Hard Day’s Night, but what she and Zamiri have turned in is more like an infinitely glummer Spice World.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) Neil McCormick Watching McCartney performing with such pleasure and power, Man on the Run reveals itself to be a story of a man finding his way back home.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Chocolat (2000) Andrew O'Hagan [Chocolat] will be considered extremely charming by many. But I venture that there is nothing more charming than the truly inventive, and nothing more shallow than the rehashing of trite cinema formulas to gain an approach on moviegoing affections.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Crime 101 (2026) Tim Robey You may leave with the feeling that crime pays if you’re considerate about it, not if you’re not. Of course, it doesn’t manage the oceanic depth or tragic scope of Heat – what could? – but it’s grittily rewarding all the same.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty in Pink (1986) Victoria Mather ... a miserably superficial effort.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Saltwater (2000) Andrew O'Hagan Saltwater shows you something believable about people you feel that you could know. People whom you may know all too well, in fact.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Andrew O'Hagan The new Ang Lee is not only his best movie yet, and not only a great foreign language film with which to start a new year, but it will win Oscars too. It may turn out to be the film we talk about for the next 12 months and beyond.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Robbie Collin Style over substance? Not at all -- it’s more that Fennell understands that style can be substance when you do it right.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Boys Don't Cry (1999) David Gritten Peirce has crafted a bold, engaging film from unlikely material. Boys Don't Cry may be set in a heartland peopled by loser, but it finally and unexpectedly achieves epic, then tragic dimensions.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Erin Brockovich (2000) David Gritten Not only does [Julia Roberts] prove that she can transcend romantic comedy, she's an absolute revelation. Her verbals bouts with Finney as the kindly but exasperated Masry crackle with wit, and it says much for Roberts that Finney raises his game.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Send Help (2026) Tim Robey The Evil Dead and Drag Me to Hell director is celebrated for his command of gore, yet the gallons of blood and vomit he pours into three fitful scenes here feel gratuitous – an attempt to up the laughs and gasps when the film seems desperate for them.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Blonde Venus (1932) George Campbell Dixon Miss Dietrich, despite the hackneyed and unsuitable settings and songs provided for her in the music-hall scenes, contrives at least to look beautiful, and Herbert Marshall gives a fine performance as the husband.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
A Face in the Crowd (1957) George Campbell Dixon A Face in the Crowd is different in that it shows, with an acid wit, the tie-up between showmanship and politics, between the Barnums and the Huey Longs.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Investigation of Lucy Letby (2026) Sarah Knapton ...it suffers from the current irritating documentary trend of having contributors talking in the present tense about past events. But it does give a fascinating insight into the police investigation and their treatment of their chief suspect.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Vanishing Point (1971) Telegraph Staff Vanishing Point is a fantastic chase film, which despite its heavy-handed symbolism, is an absolute must for any movie lover – whether you're a petrol head or not.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Camille (1936) George Campbell Dixon [Zoe Akins] has made a first-class job of it, keeping to the outline and characterization of the original whole, introducing plenty of effective minor incident.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Arabesque (1966) Patrick Gibbs ...three scriptwriters have obviously worked overtime on the fanciful intertwining business, to such an extent that some may have difficulty in following the plot.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Muppet Show (2026) Anita Singh Rogen has lovingly recreated his favourite childhood show. This half-hour pilot reintroduces all the favourites.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
My Forbidden Past (1951) George Campbell Dixon A dish with all the exotic charm of stale oysters and flat champagne.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Show Boat (1951) George Campbell Dixon If it happens to be a youthful memory, you may find the magic a trifle dimmed.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
White Corridors (1951) George Campbell Dixon The film is still worth seeing for its flow of telling incident, its unforced humour, and it glimpses (not too horrific but deeply moving) of the tougher side of a profession always face to face with realities of suffering and death.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Ace in the Hole (1951) George Campbell Dixon Life in America has its unpleasant sides: in no country, perhaps, is sensation exploited so vulgarly and on such a scale. The fact remains that this is a vicious caricature of a human nature anywhere.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Skyscraper Live (2025) Ed Power There’s not much to see – and so, the audience will have found themselves in the weird position of both experiencing a pounding heart and occasionally stifling a yawn.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mercy (2026) Tim Robey Everything’s laid on so thick, as slick entertainment, that it pretends to sound dire notes of caution while bouncing around as a whizzily inane high-tech romp.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Telegraph Staff Patchy but engaging children's satire.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Robbie Collin It’s tense, absurd, desperate and daft, all at once: seldom have so many contradictory tones been so gainfully employed.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Hugo Davenport Though the film does not entirely escape cliche on the way to its gruesome climax, Annie Wilkes makes a believably ghastly female antidote to the dreary procession of serial male slashers who have marched across our screens of late.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
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