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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
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Geoff Brown Jane Austen's novel about the Dashwood daughters and their winding paths to romantic fulfilment gets kid-glove treatment from director Ang Lee and his script-writer, Emma Thompson.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist (2026) Ben Dowell The opening scenes, which charted the founding of the Hwange National Park where Cecil was shot, were mesmerising.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) Kevin Maher In the end there are no revelations, just a warm and cosy restatement of cultural history.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Kevin Maher I can’t remember seeing a film that espoused ideas and beliefs with which I agreed wholeheartedly (social media is evil and we’re all going to die) while simultaneously boring me stupid.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Kevin Maher For all its showmanship, exquisite period details and flashy Tarantino-style denouement, Filho’s film never loses its profound emotional ache, or the central idea — that the departing dictatorship left behind an entire population in a state of trauma.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Stolen Face (1952) Kevin Maher Unlike Vertigo, where we empathise with James Stewart’s Scottie, Philip here is the stooge, weak and overlooked by the innately powerful Alice.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Ed Potton The sound is as vivid as the visuals and Presley’s stagecraft radiates confidence, honed by a schedule that sometimes involved three shows a day.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Moment (2026) Kevin Maher It’s a film directed and co-written by Aitchison’s regular pop video wunderkind Aidan Zamiri, who’s here made a feature-length promo with hit’n’miss jokes and a handful of two-dimensional ciphers.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Becoming Victoria Wood (2026) Carol Midgley It made me quite wistful watching this skilfully woven documentary.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) Kevin Maher The film is serious, sweet and yet boldly sui generis.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The President's Cake (2025) Kevin Maher It’s a testament to Nayyef’s ingenuous performance and the mesmerising sense of place that the film is always compelling and sometimes bleakly funny, although there are no happy endings.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Crime 101 (2026) Kevin Maher It’s a prime example of the LA-set B-movie, a genre that also includes Guy Ritchie’s Wrath of Man and Gerard Butler’s Den of Thieves franchise. Crime 101 is far better than those efforts and in places is sublime.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Kevin Maher With a chemistry-free central romance between the bizarrely uninteresting Heathcliff and Cathy, this film self-deflates.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Investigation of Lucy Letby (2026) Ben Dowell This film had all the excellent footage (including police interviews) and the exclusive sit-downs you might want.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Muppet Show (2026) Ben Dowell It’s definitely a return to basics, and all the more joyous for it.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Kevin Maher The director Julia Jackman has created a tonal hodgepodge.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hamlet (2025) Ed Potton Ahmed is a fine, understated Hamlet, especially in the earlier scenes, where he is intriguingly contained and (literally) haunted. He is less good at the emotional implosions demanded later on, but — as always — he is never less than watchable.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
My Father's Shadow (2025) Ed Potton It’s a moving and nuanced turn from Dirisu, whom we are more used to seeing break bones than mend relationships.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Send Help (2026) Kevin Maher It’s a lot of fun.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Shelter (2026) Ed Potton Statham fans may still love Shelter, and it makes for serviceable entertainment, but it’s just not, in the end, very interesting.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Carlton Browne of the F.O. (1959) Kevin Maher There is far too much laboured slapstick but some of the gags are Python-sharp, especially a speech at the UN that’s composed entirely of mottos and aphorisms.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Primate (2025) Kevin Maher The makers of the Hawaii-set gore fest Primate have seemingly surveyed the horror landscape and thought, “Hmm, you know what I really miss? Pretty girl torture!”
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) Kevin Maher Daisy Ridley produces a masterclass in minimalism in this slick Australian zombie movie.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Arabesque (1966) Times (UK) Staff The film looks first and foremost like an attempt to repeat the success of Mr. Donen's earlier comedy-thriller Charade by doing it all over again, a couple of times bigger and, hopefully, better.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Kevin Maher None of the marital clashes have any bite.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Pose (2025) Kevin Maher There are a handful of longueurs in the movie, but mostly this is a director and a lead actor working together without restrictions.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Kevin Maher Foy is exceptional throughout in a project that frequently requires her to share the frame with a beady-eyed, sharp-clawed killer and, crucially, to convey a combination of awestruck admiration and stultifying terror.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Secret of Me (2025) James Jackson There is so much to unpack from this film, not least the perspective it offered on the perennial debate of nature versus nurture.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Mercy (2026) Kevin Maher Pratt is fine, and blandly likeable in the manner of a not-especially-demanding labrador, but the prospect of his blameless heroism is always depressingly inevitable and the identity of the real villain is conspicuous from almost the first scene.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Geoff Brown There is too much presidential pomp, too small a glimpse of the ordinary man within. Bening is charm personified as Sydney Wade; unfortunately, bright eyes, a winning smile, and a strong supporting cast can only take this soft, boring film so far.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Rip (2026) Kevin Maher The ending gets a bit messy, with a large splodge of generic action. By then it hardly matters. The job is done. The perps are punished. The guns holstered. Hell yeah.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Rental Family (2025) Kevin Maher Yes, it’s just awful. Fake, puke-inducing emotional dishonesty of the most absurd kind. Nothing here makes sense.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
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