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4/5
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Kevin Maher The film is great, bristling with ideas and hard-won epiphanies.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rebuilding (2025) Kevin Maher It’s a definitive “we the people” movie filled with gorgeous vistas, crepuscular landscapes, authentic people and a deeply moving sense of everything that’s best about the US at a time when it needs it most.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Kevin Maher It looks great, and Cronin is a gifted stylist. But, as with his debut The Hole in the Ground, there’s too much slavish imitation and homage here.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass (2026) Kevin Maher It’s difficult not to regard the entire project with a vaguely benign shoulder shrug.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
California Schemin' (2025) Tom Shone McAvoy feels the pain as well as the joy of his two cultural minstrels.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Stand by Me (1986) Larushka Ivan-Zadeh Stand by Me remains one of the loveliest and most devastating films ever made about the loss of childhood.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Stranger (2025) Larushka Ivan-Zadeh Making an engaging film about such a pathologically passive, unreflective and disengaged character is a challenge. Yet Ozon keeps us engrossed.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
undertone (2025) Larushka Ivan-Zadeh It’s the writer-director Ian Tuason’s ingenious use of negative space that makes his low-budget debut a standout.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
You, Me & Tuscany (2026) Larushka Ivan-Zadeh Wearisomely predictable nonsense.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Kevin Maher Everything is pleasant and fitfully amusing. In short, it is middling.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Jerry Maguire (1996) Geoff Brown This is a long film, and not every minute is spent wisely. But, as in his last film, Singles, the writer and director Cameron Crowe knows enough about human behaviour to fill the broad sweep of his plot with telling moments.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
California Schemin' (2025) Kevin Maher McAvoy wraps everything up a little too neatly with easy sentiment and lessons learnt. But it remains, until the end, a potent movie about bruised Scottish identity and the psychological perils of a pretender’s career.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Amélie (2001) Kevin Maher A deeply lovely movie about the importance, and the rewards, of kindness.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
André Is an Idiot (2025) Ben Dowell André Is an Idiot is one of the most moving and profound cancer stories you will see.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Two Women (2025) Kevin Maher The film, despite themes of empowerment, is really a strange cinematic palimpsest. Scratch the glossy feminist makeover to reveal underneath a still smirking, leering, chauvinistic pig.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Fuze (2025) Kevin Maher The twists are many and some predictable, but the mood here is mostly, and unapologetically, guilty-pleasure hokum.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards (2026) Carol Midgley It is an instructive and important depiction of the blatant abuse of power. And also the gobsmacking recklessness of a man with so very much to lose, who has now burnt his bridges.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
0/5
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Kevin Maher The film is torturous to sit through and, for me, provoked periods of actual physical discomfort.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Drama (2026) Kevin Maher A nuptial apocalypse has rarely been explored with such dark intelligence and mordant wit as in this often piercing and cringe-out-loud dramedy starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Khartoum (2025) James Jackson With an at times ambient soundtrack, the film ends up feeling like a dream.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) Kevin Maher Farnaby’s screenplay is deplorable.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Splitsville (2025) Kevin Maher This is a beautifully written and played film, with shades of Woody Allen and Nora Ephron.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
They Will Kill You (2026) Kevin Maher This is poorly choreographed action, generically shot, with entirely weightless dramatic stakes.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1996) Kevin Maher The chemistry between the pair — light yet earnest, playful but seemingly real — lays the groundwork for the authenticity of the pain and loss to come.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) David Robinson For all its sweet-sour undertones, it is a very funny film indeed.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Kevin Maher Van Sant is on form here.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Ben-Hur (1959) Kevin Maher The most remarkable aspect of Ben-Hur is its narrative simplicity.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Arco (2025) Kevin Maher It doesn’t all work. Iris and Arco are slightly bland, and a third-act chase sequence seems superfluous. But the bleak ending, the key character killed and the brutal twist? Bravo!
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Ed Potton Boon’s already considerable charisma is somehow magnified by Tommy’s incarceration and Graham and Riseborough prove yet again that they can find humanity in even the most disturbing characters.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Portrait of a Confused Father (2025) James Jackson The beauty of parenthood was all here but mostly the perpetual worries of it.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
A Pale View of Hills (2025) Kevin Maher It is a fascinating, often moving exploration of Japanese family life in the traumatised, bomb-blasted aftermath of the Second World War.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Love That Remains (2025) Kevin Maher This is a film of rolling vignettes, beautifully shot on 35mm film, that are often zany and surreal but slowly coalesce to form a portrait of a family at the mercy of, oh yes, the unforgiving elements.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Carol Midgley Theroux’s task is to try to chip away at their macho façades, and hopefully show us the vulnerable lost boys beneath. To some extent, he succeeds.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Reminders of Him (2026) Kevin Maher The Colleen Hoover school of social realism is back — and this time it's more idiotic than ever.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Kevin Maher There are some mildly diverting moments, and it’s pleasing to see Ed Harris emerge later on in a significant set piece. Like everything else in this ill-judged effort, his appearance is a wasted opportunity.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hoppers (2026) Tom Shone It’s an improvement on Elio, and still better than most of the competition.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Waiting for Guffman (1996) Geoff Brown Probably too specialized for mainstream cinema audiences, but business buffs should have a ball.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Kevin Maher Gosling is the sugar that helps the medicine go down. He hasn’t been this perfectly cast between roguish and ingenuous since La La Land in 2016.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) Times (UK) Staff The sentimental turn in the plot at the end is a ridiculous mistake, but Miss Hayes is given, and takes, the opportunity of giving a royal finish to a film which deserves it.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mother's Pride (2025) Kevin Maher It’s full of telegraphed “comedy”, ersatz emotions and daytime telly twists. Please, marketing people, stop calling these films “Ealing-style comedies”.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
All the President's Men (1976) Kevin Maher Redford and Hoffman generate fabulous screwball energy.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Turner & Constable (2026) Laura Freeman The tone is clever and conversational; never obscure, nor talking down.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Dunblane Tapes (2026) Carol Midgley There is something about home video tapes, the unfiltered, honest capturing of a moment in time, that punches the gut in a different way.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Molly vs The Machines (2026) Ed Potton As brave and dignified as Ian Russell is, it is Molly’s friends who leave the deepest impression. Now in their early twenties, they remember her with warmth and have a sharp understanding of why she died.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Kevin Maher The rock soundtrack thumps along with propulsive vigour, the screen pulses with stylish slow-mo from the director Tom Harper, while the top-tier acting duo of Murphy and Keoghan bring some unexpected poignancy to an otherwise familiar Oedipal clash.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Kevin Maher It’s a howling misfire for the actress turned director Maggie Gyllenhaal who has, in this latest flashy Frankenstein reboot, abandoned all the artistic integrity she displayed in her stunning debut, The Lost Daughter.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) Kevin Maher Monroe and Olivier never once seem comfortable together yet this is oddly appropriate for their characters’ deeply combative relationship. You can’t look away.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Kevin Maher The film is overwhelmingly self-serious and thus accidentally very Monty Python. So many scenes live just on the verge of unintentional side-splitting comedy.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Scream 7 (2026) Kevin Maher There are a handful of limp references to AI deepfakes but otherwise all the sharp culture awareness, and certainly all the irony, has been removed. It’s as if nobody realised that a Scream movie without the irony is just a bad horror movie.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hoppers (2026) Kevin Maher There’s lots of fun here, some of the one-liners are exquisite and the helter-skelter finale is delightfully overstuffed. Frustratingly, it’s still second-grade Pixar.
Posted Mar 02, 2026  Edit critic review
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