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Scare Out (2026) 1.5/5 EDIT “The once-great Zhang Yimou’s underbaked, over-edited pastiche of techno-thriller cliches [is] dull, often incomprehensible and, given the recent heightening of controversial population surveillance technology, a bit on the nose.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Blades of the Guardians (2026) 90% 4.5/5 EDIT “A wildly entertaining wuxia spectacle that imbues its characters - heroes and villain alike - with humour, depth and chemistry.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Fackham Hall (2025) 73% 3/5 EDIT “More relentlessly silly than side-splittingly funny, there are still enough inspired moments in this Downton Abbey/Upstairs Downstairs skewering to make fans of the genre happy.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 4.5/5 EDIT “Stewart’s bold aesthetics - jagged edits, kaleidoscopic soundscapes and avant-garde framing - combine to depict a fractured personality in various stages of decline and rebuild.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The Hermit (2025) 3/5 EDIT “The Hermit legitimately surprises with an icky final act reveal (and deftly-used needle-drop) that elevates the material.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Layton’s films are bathed in mood and menace, notably his brilliant 2012 debut THE IMPOSTER, but he usually has a stronger grip on logic and pacing, which aren’t as assured here.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 60% 3/5 EDIT “[There] are moments of guilty pleasure - as Isabella, Cathy’s live-in sycophant-turned-Heathcliff’s dog-collared submissive, Alison Oliver is great - but it falls short of the potential held in the pairing of Fennell and the source material.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “Director Cooper...does good work here, capturing a ground-level naturalism and authenticity in his characters and setting that proves insightful and winning.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 74% 3.5/5 EDIT “The photo-realistic grandeur of Hosoda’s bleak landscapes and ravishing renderings of his heroine are breathtaking.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 64% 3.5/5 EDIT “Its heartbeat is the bond shared between the terrific Breathnatch...and an ageing Statham, whose face of twisted scar tissue, deeply-cratered forehead and cavernous worry-lines makes him as ‘human’ as he’s ever been on-screen.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Imagine (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s a wild, wonderful, often abstract ride...sometimes more aesthetically in line with an art gallery installation.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Worldbreaker (2025) 47% 3.5/5 EDIT “Director Brad Anderson is less interested in overstating the creature feature tropes of his premise and more at ease with the family dynamic.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “So much of Sam Raimi’s first film in four years is such a funny, fierce gender arm-wrestle that when it starts to derail in the final act, audience goodwill all but drags it over the finish line.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Melania (2026) 11% 1/5 EDIT “This is not a film concerned at all with the America of today; it is propaganda that serves the formation of a future non-democracy.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Return to Silent Hill (2026) 19% 2.5/5 EDIT “Gans and his co-writers layer their narrative (tragic love story; really haunted memories; witch-cult abuse) like game designers Konami layered their game play, but only one nails the experience.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Signing Tony Raymond (2025) 75% 3/5 EDIT “Owen exhibits a depth of understanding for his working class characters (notably a terrific Mira Sorvino as the damaged but determined mom) and sharp wit in his takedown of principle-free college ‘ball big business.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 2.5/5 EDIT “The energy it spends entirely ignoring that it presents a near future American society diametrically inverted to the existing Constitutional democracy (at least, at time of writing) is quite remarkable and hugely disappointing.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Glendora (2026) 4/5 EDIT “Armand’s work offers a Wiseman-like tour-de-force of observational cinematic storytelling; one never senses her camera is intrusive, but the images it captures are indelibly insightful.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Grotesquely ambitious ping-ponger ‘Marty Mauser’ is exactly the fidgety, shouty, sexy, toxic character that is an actor’s dream, and Chalamet goes all in on the acne-scarred young man’s anxiety-inducing geographical and emotional odyssey.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Raja Saab (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Telugu superstar Prabhas shoehorns his appeal into this ill-fitting vehicle, a low-brow pitch to his legion of fans that hurls broad comedy, half-baked horror tropes and laptop special effects with little concern for coherence or character.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% 4.5/5 EDIT “If cinema is the only real artform for the masses, then surely SONG SUNG BLUE is the artform at its purest. Isn’t that what Oscar recognises?” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “Dickinson indulges in some showy movie moments in the final few minutes, unnecessarily at odds with the gritty street-level realism of all that goes before.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 4/5 EDIT “Michôd doesn’t rebuild the sports drama genre with his often conventional handling of the material, but nor does he miss the heart and soul of Martin’s story.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Flat Girls (2025) 5/5 EDIT “Few films this year will capture the tenderness of friendship and complexity of coming-of-age like FLAT GIRLS. ” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2/5 EDIT “Cameron’s third space opera/neo-western saga reps the longest running time, thinnest plotting and most risible dialogue of the franchise, while managing to reduce his once cutting-edge visual flair to its most generic baseline functionality.” – Screen-Space (Substack) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review
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