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Two Women (2025) 88% 2/5 EDIT “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.” – Guardian Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 45% 1/5 EDIT “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. ” – Guardian Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 84% 4/5 EDIT “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.” – Guardian Mar 31, 2026 Full Review Night Stage (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It is a film which interestingly sets out to strain its own credibility, but it is also extravagant and subversive.” – Guardian Mar 30, 2026 Full Review Redoubt (2025) 4/5 EDIT “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.” – Guardian Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Underland (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “There are some arresting questions and potent images in Rob Petit’s ruminative essay-documentary Underland.” – Guardian Mar 25, 2026 Full Review The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) 95% 4/5 EDIT “A thoroughly likable and sweet-natured family fantasy film for the Easter holidays, with acres of innocent jollity and eccentric quirkiness.” – Guardian Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Killer (1989) 96% 4/5 EDIT “John Woo’s 1989 thriller is a reminder of the director’s habit of hitching the craziest of mayhem to a mile-wide streak of earnest emotionalism and sentimentality; a strong and under-acknowledged part of why his films are so addictive.” – Guardian Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Midwinter Break (2026) 65% 5/5 EDIT “There is often something soft and fuzzy and depressing in the wrong way about these films’ lenient sunset-sentimentalism -- but not so with Polly Findlay’s fiercely sad, spiky and wonderfully acted film.” – Guardian Mar 19, 2026 Full Review The Straight Story (1999) 95% 4/5 EDIT “The Straight Story is a heartwarmer of the sort that Lynch arguably hadn’t attempted since his version of The Elephant Man in 1980, and this was without that element of the grotesque.” – Guardian Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Zulu Dawn (1979) 56% 3/5 EDIT “The British lost, but in terms of the contest between interest and boredom, it’s a draw.” – Guardian Mar 12, 2026 Full Review A Pale View of Hills (2025) 63% 2/5 EDIT “It is a bland, soggy film whose contrived and anticlimactic surprise ending is not delivered with a clear satisfying twist.” – Guardian Mar 11, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 44% 2/5 EDIT “A pale imitation.” – Guardian Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Dust (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Handsomely produced and shot, and impeccably acted. But it’s also weirdly parochial, leaving you with the sense that it has not reached beyond its immediate concerns.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review The Education of Jane Cumming (2026) 4/5 EDIT “This very well acted film is an astringent and commonsensical account of what in all probability happened in private as well as in public: a story of race, class, sexuality and empire.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 3/5 EDIT “This is a Hail Mary pass that Gosling just about manages to catch.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% 4/5 EDIT “It is all so bizarre that you have to enjoy it and it makes those of us of a certain generation nostalgic for watching VHS rental tapes on a Friday night.” – Guardian Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Soul to Soul (1971) 4/5 EDIT “This is a film in which there is no tension and no debate; there is a broad celebratory unity. ” – Guardian Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Maybe you have to be fully invested in the TV show to really like it, although this canonisation of Tommy is a sentimental treatment of what we actually know of crime gangs in the second world war. Nevertheless, it is a resoundingly confident drama.” – Guardian Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 58% 4/5 EDIT “Without Buckley, this would have been lacking; with her, it’s a very bizarre and enjoyable spectacle of married bliss.” – Guardian Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “The film perhaps suffers from a loss of nerve about how villainous to make the villain, but it zaps along very entertainingly.” – Guardian Mar 2, 2026 Full Review Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s an amazing story of a community triumph, showing how the nasty little habits of domineering policing can be countered by stubbornly British -- and in this case, specifically Scottish -- insistence on justice. It’s a morale-boosting film.” – Guardian Feb 25, 2026 Full Review We Are All Strangers (2026) 91% 4/5 EDIT “There’s some addictively brash storytelling here from Chen, with a page-turning novelistic energy and a marvellous sympathy for the whole cast.” – Guardian Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “You may find yourself wondering why we are going over this ground again, but it's an engaging film, and there is always something mesmeric in McCartney's face: cherubic, and yet sharp and watchful.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Bronstein is brilliant at conveying mounting panic and a terrible, all-consuming sadness.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review
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