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Legend (1985) Derek Malcolm All that comes out of this pretty disastrous farrago, populated by goblins, elves, pixies, leprechauns and unicorns, is the stink of stale ideas lovingly put forward by a director who shouldn't be entertaining them for a moment.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Roommates (2026) Benjamin Lee Roommates might not rival the fizzy, formative teen films it both references (Clueless) and often directly cribs from (Mean Girls) but it still belongs in a different league to what we’re mostly served right now.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Benjamin Lee Cronin, an Irish film-maker who has made just two films to date, is an undeniable visual talent but his Mummy is also absurdly, watch-checkingly overlong, tonally unsure and, fatally, not all that scary.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Dead Souls (2025) Peter Bradshaw It is a diverting and watchable love letter to the spaghetti west of the movies, and a satirical thorn in the flesh of Trumpian politics.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Blue Trail (2025) Peter Bradshaw The Blue Trail is a generic mashup: it partly has the bittersweet tone of many films about defiant old people, and partly it has something far more subversive and disquieting. The mix of tones is interesting, like chewing cake and cheese at the same time.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Truth & Treason (2025) Leslie Felperin In short, this is a flawed film, but it feels like its heart is in the right place, and any anti-fascist message is welcome and timely in these dark times.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Diamanti (2024) Leslie Felperin The film runs for 135 minutes, but the script is so breathless it never feels draggy and Özpetek gets excellent results with his stacked cast.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Glenrothan (2025) Peter Bradshaw It can be a bit soppy, sometimes resembling Sunday-night TV comfort food, but this big-hearted picture wins you over, and there are certainly some marvellous panoramic shots of the Highlands.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Balls Up (2026) Andrew Lawrence Balls Up is juvenile entertainment, handled by professionals.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) Derek Malcolm It wins few prizes from me other than that for the most clumsily titled sequel.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Itch! (2024) Catherine Bray There’s nothing much wrong with the characters as archetypes, but the screenplay struggles to make them actively interesting.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Sunshine Women's Choir (2026) Phil Hoad There's so much theatrical crying in the final stages that the inmates could have floated over the prison walls on the rising tide of their own tears.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mother Mary (2026) Owen Myers If only Lowery’s po-faced film had any of the knowingness that could elevate its hodgepodge of ideas into a cult classic. It’s ironic, given that it is a film about a dress.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Time Hoppers: The Silk Road (2025) Catherine Bray This is edutainment that’s a little light on the -tainment.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Departures (2025) Phuong Le Eyre-Morgan’s strong chemistry with Tag ballasts the lead role, and much of the film is driven by Benji’s internal monologue, delivered with self-deprecating humour and raw honesty.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Jerry Maguire (1996) Derek Malcolm Cuba Gooding Jr. is as much the star of the picture as anybody. Zellweger, too, is notably natural, confirming the talent she suggested in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused and Ben Stiller's Reality Bites.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Derek Malcolm Set-pieces and minor details are accomplished with great technical resources and flair for design.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Thrash (2026) Benjamin Lee Perhaps the best use of Thrash is to help cure those with galeophobia, proving that they’re really not that scary after all.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story (2026) Andrew Pulver Best emerges with considerable dignity, especially with the final montage of his various special appearances and honorary degrees in his elder-statesman guise, and someone with no little appreciation of the importance of blazing a trail.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
You, Me & Tuscany (2026) Andrew Lawrence A perfectly wholesome and harmless meet-cute that starts by asking: “What if the Little Mermaid had a Lady and the Tramp-style hookup with the season one heart-throb from Bridgerton, spaghetti and all?”
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Stand by Me (1986) Peter Bradshaw The resulting adventure -- bizarre, mysterious and moving -- is about lost youth and the recovery of innocence through writing and memory. It is also one of those vanishingly rare films where child actors have to carry almost the entire drama.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor/Victoria (1982) Derek Malcolm It's comedy and the plaing that is the thing, with Andrews as professional in her timing as always and totally sure of a difficult part.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Grease 2 (1982) Tim Pulleine A musical as short on charm and invention as it is mercilessly long on running time.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
On Moonlight Bay (1951) Guardian Staff [It] is for the most of its time, a singularly artless and amiable film, which has little point or story.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
On Moonlight Bay (1951) Philip French Delightful period musical set in a small town on the eve of America's entry into World War Two.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Dracula (2025) Peter Bradshaw One day, I predict, Jude will make a biopic of political vampirism about the most pressing Romanian subject of all: Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. At all events, there are moments of startling insanity here.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Slither (2006) Leslie Felperin Its science fiction elements are thinly conceived, while the use of rubbery practical effects and lame jokes feel much closer to the work of the Troma brand where Gunn got his training wheels.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Stranger (2025) Peter Bradshaw François Ozon’s lustrously beautiful and superbly realised monochrome version of Albert Camus’s novella L’Etranger has an almost supernaturally detailed sense of period and place.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mouthpiece (1932) Guardian Staff There are dangerous of sentimentality into which this film might fall, but it generally avoids them and keeps to the brusque, brutal, and amusing style.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Movie (1979) Tim Radford The humor remains decently dry and self-deprecating throughout: on the other hand there isn't nearly enough of it, and a good 40 or 50 minute idea is padded to the obligatory hour and a half with songs...and a certain amount of mooning about.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Effi o Blaenau (2026) Peter Bradshaw It is a tremendous performance from Gwenllian as Effi.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards (2026) Stuart Heritage You’re left with the sense that the producers have done the best they can with what is ultimately not a very visually interesting story.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Bone Keeper (2026) Cath Clarke It all adds up to a serviceable horror that at times feels like a B-movie without the fun, containing scenes that could almost work as a spoof.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Deathstalker (2025) Catherine Bray And the critters are brought to life through actual practical effects, which greatly adds to their charm, as does the absolute conviction of the human actors playing opposite them, bringing Monty Python-level commitment to the bit.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Ghost Killer (2024) Leslie Felperin Takaishi has charisma to burn and an impressive range; she’s equally convincing as a hapless student screaming in shock at the destruction being wrought around her as she is as a dead-eyed killer when Kudo inhabits her body.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Two Women (2025) Peter Bradshaw There are one or two interesting moments: including an intriguing discussion of the idea that Tinder is anti-love and in fact just promotes addiction to the app... But really this is a very tiring and mediocre film.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Peter Bradshaw Of course it’s intended for little kids, but it surely didn’t need to be such a visually dull screensaver of a movie, with even more of the cheesy, Euro-knockoff look of that first film.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Drama (2026) Peter Bradshaw It offers us a provocation, a jeu d’ésprit of outrage, a psychological meltdown that is more astutely articulated than in many another more solemnly intended film. And it gives us what it promises in the title.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Q (2023) Phuong Le That Chehab’s film focuses on this internal emancipation, rather than problematising the veil and Islam itself, makes for a radical portrayal of a Muslim woman rediscovering her voice.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Night Stage (2025) Peter Bradshaw It is a film which interestingly sets out to strain its own credibility, but it is also extravagant and subversive.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Pal Joey (1957) Guardian Staff Like many others it is sharp, neat, coloured, and endowed with sharp, neat words and music...and, like many others, it has lost much of its bite and sting in the course of its journey from original book to ultimate film.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) Derek Malcolm What [Michael Ritchie] has done here is to take on a perfectly ordinary Disney-type story and invest it with charm, guts, and a modicum of meaning.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Redoubt (2025) Peter Bradshaw Denis Lavant is an intriguing and vulnerable presence, somewhere between Quasimodo and Nosferatu, in this beautifully shot monochrome feature from Swedish artist, photographer and film-maker John Skoog.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Underland (2025) Peter Bradshaw There are some arresting questions and potent images in Rob Petit’s ruminative essay-documentary Underland.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Pretty Lethal (2026) Benjamin Lee Nothing here is to be taken very seriously at all but it is mostly devoid of the suffocating, and often nihilistic, smugness one has come to expect from modern action films.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) Benjamin Lee The very definition of more of the same, a flavourless soup of limp quips and needle drops that resembles any other star-led action comedy that one has already double-screened on a streamer in recent times.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Surrender to It (2025) Leslie Felperin Nothing excuses the stiff gestural quality of most of the acting, the amateur production values, or the scissorhand editing.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Mortuary Assistant (2026) Catherine Bray The Mortuary Assistant lacks the light to contrast with the shadows: Rebecca and Raymond are both dark, tormented, oblique characters, occupying dark, tormented, stylised worlds, and there’s very little light to balance it out.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Last Blossom (2025) Phuong Le Though encompassing much bloodshed and even a hidden treasure subplot, The Last Blossom is most moving as an exploration of human conscience, where a capacity for violence and kindness coexist.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) Peter Bradshaw A thoroughly likable and sweet-natured family fantasy film for the Easter holidays, with acres of innocent jollity and eccentric quirkiness.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
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