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The Land of Sometimes (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Sigh. Not to moan about how things were better in the good old days, things have clearly moved backwards in kid-aimed animation, so now we routinely get this sort of ersatz DreamWorks storyworld where everything looks like a screensaver.” – Guardian Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Daggers Inn (2025) 1/5 EDIT “This isn’t action-packed, it’s not intriguing as a mystery, and there’s no momentum. One hour in, a character says: “This keeps happening. It needs to end now.” Quite.” – Guardian Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Hunting Jessica Brok (2025) 2/5 EDIT “It seems to have fallen prey to one of the stupidest of modern issues in cinema: a luxuriously padded run time.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Bad Voodoo (2026) 2/5 EDIT “As for any cultural sensitivities around portrayal of voodoo … on the whole this enterprise is so unrelated to reality that it would feel like getting mad at a child’s drawing.” – Guardian Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Play Dead (2025) 2/5 EDIT “The plot becomes loopier and although this film is not trying to do anything that hasn’t worked perfectly well in other, better horror movies, the technique of piling on trope after trope doesn’t result in something that cumulatively becomes scarier. ” – Guardian Mar 5, 2026 Full Review The Ballad of Judas Priest (2026) EDIT “There’s plenty to chew on here, then, even if some outside of the metal community might struggle to name a Priest song.” – Variety Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Salvation (2026) EDIT “This apposite demonstration of religious convictions being used to prop up concrete actions, spurred on and given fuel by tribalist rivalries, elevates “Salvation” from a merely striking mood piece to an astute psychological study.” – Variety Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Wolfram (2025) 92% EDIT “One of the film’s greatest strengths is its look and feel. That’s perhaps unsurprising, since Thornton once more acts as his own DP. ” – Variety Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Nightborn (2026) 70% EDIT “Grint is a fine choice for the role of Jon, as his screen persona works well with the character's schlubby, well-meaning passivity.” – Variety Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Frontier Crucible (2025) 3/5 EDIT “The model here should perhaps have been the Ranown Cycle: inexpensive but beautiful and brisk character-driven westerns none of which are longer than 80 minutes. Still, Frontier Crucible does look lovely.” – Guardian Feb 4, 2026 Full Review V/H/S Halloween (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “This horror bonanza, the eighth instalment in the V/H/S anthology series, is a mixed bag, with some very high highs and regrettably poor lows. ” – Guardian Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Sanatorium (2025) EDIT “With no narrator to impose an interpretation, “Sanatorium” is the opposite of a spoon-fed social issues doc: It observes, listens and trusts the audience likewise to observe, listen and to draw their own conclusions.” – Variety Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Tell Me Softly (2025) 2/5 EDIT “The film’s attitude to sex proves something of a curate’s egg: it’s spicier than most American teen movies, but falls short of offering anything more than titillation.” – Guardian Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Wildcat (2025) 57% EDIT “For audiences in the mood for a Guy Ritchie movie, but who have somehow exhausted the prolific director’s back catalogue, “Wildcat” should scratch the itch. ” – Variety Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% 4/5 EDIT “It always feels as if the people making this movie are having fun, and while that’s never a guarantee that the audience will too, it’s certainly the case here.” – Guardian Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (2025) 71% 3/5 EDIT “Is it a movie borrowing bits from a TV show? A TV show dressed up as a movie? Does it matter? It certainly doesn’t, if all you need is spectacular and imaginatively staged battle sequences.” – Guardian Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Under the Stars (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Like a failed soufflé on Bake Off, it never rises to the necessary level.” – Guardian Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Where Shelley wrote a gothic thriller in a somewhat realist register, this version of Frankenstein is a grand gothic fairytale and, like all the great fairytales, it’s at its best when it bleeds.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review A Mother's Embrace (2024) 3/5 EDIT “A Mother’s Embrace turns out to be a minor but interestingly woozy and off-kilter entry into the canon of thoughtful trauma horror; its strongest suit is vibes and imagery, with the persistent queasy sensation that Ana has wandered into a bad dream.” – Guardian Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Kika (2025) EDIT “The film’s ethical tension lies in its refusal to either condemn or romanticize Kika’s choices: Instead, it watches her negotiate some form of agency within the confines of an economy that commodifies her body and actions.” – Variety Nov 1, 2025 Full Review Boston Kickout (1995) 3/5 EDIT “None are exactly appealing characters, but all ring true. ” – Guardian Oct 29, 2025 Full Review The Draft! (2023) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Is there a sense of diminishing returns eventually, as the genre is endlessly remixed and sampled? Will horror eat itself? Not yet, says The Draft! -- or at the very least, it will make the act of autophagia a highly entertaining one.” – Guardian Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Strange Harvest (2024) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Ignore the film’s marketing, which seems intent on positioning it as a run-of-the-mill masked maniac movie; this is a fascinating and neatly realised horror riff on the 2020s’ most popular genre.” – Guardian Oct 20, 2025 Full Review A Tooth Fairy Tale (2025) 3/5 EDIT “If your child is in the right age bracket, this is unlikely to become their new all-time fave, but you could do worse.” – Guardian Oct 6, 2025 Full Review The Threesome (2025) 77% 4/5 EDIT “This is an all too rare romcom that delivers on every level. If you’re looking for well-drawn characters caught up in an outlandish situation that generates plenty of laughter and sentiment, look no further. Oh, and it’s sexy too. ” – Guardian Oct 1, 2025 Full Review
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