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4/5
Ultras (2025) Phil Hoad Even the aesthetics showcased here -- the billowing flags, the coordinated masses -- have a latent fascism Ekner prefers to ignore. Luckily, she also taps other associations that intriguingly position ultraism as a lifegiving, elemental source.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wardriver (2026) Phil Hoad Where it’s lacking in psychological bite, Wardriver’s demi-monde is convincingly venal in general terms. Thomas lends it enough fast-driving attack and romanticised ferment that it might just pass in the darkness for a Michael Mann film.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Scarborn (2023) Leslie Felperin This Polish historical drama is an odd duck of a feature but there’s definitely a cinematic flair to proceedings.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Couture (2025) Peter Bradshaw Sadly, the film itself feels specious and shallow, insisting with bland and weirdly humourless confidence on the glamorous importance of the fashion world in which it is set.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough (2026) Stuart Heritage A Gorilla Story is a much starrier affair than its predecessor, but its conceit is fascinating: after all this time, how are those same gorillas doing?
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Plague (2025) Phil Hoad The three young performers stand out in their unfiltered rawness: Blunck clammily eager to please and increasingly disturbed; Martin intimidating despite his tiny stature; Rasmussen stretching a cartoon geek role into genuinely unsettling outsiderdom.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Rebuilding (2025) Peter Bradshaw It is another highly sympathetic performance from O’Connor, who converts the British reticence of his earlier roles into Dusty’s strength and quiet vulnerability.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Blades of the Guardians (2026) Leslie Felperin With all those elements in place, plus scores of extras, it doesn’t really matter what the story is about; the trick is to just sit back and enjoy the hullabaloo.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Peter Bradshaw It is highly diverting, elegantly contrived study of an unhappy family group and the cuckoo in its nest.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
La venue de l'avenir (2025) Peter Bradshaw It’s the kind of French movie for which you’ll need a sweet tooth, but it’s tasty.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Michael (2026) Peter Bradshaw This is a frustratingly shallow, inert picture, a kind of cruise-ship entertainment, which can’t quite bring itself to show that Michael was an abuse victim, brutalised by his father and robbed of his childhood.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass (2026) Peter Bradshaw The personal story behind the theft -- the real story, in fact -- is sadder, and more banal and more painful, than the film can quite acknowledge.
Posted Apr 20, 2026  Edit critic review
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
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