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Arco (2025) 93% 3/5 EDIT “For a film about the inevitable eradication of most life on Earth, Arco isn’t as depressing as you might expect, as it finds a tiny thread of optimism to hold on to.” – Guardian Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Abode (2025) 2/5 EDIT “Characterisation rarely rouses itself above stereotype-peddling here; at least it’s (mostly) in focus.” – Guardian Mar 18, 2026 Full Review The Last Supper (2025) 2/5 EDIT “It’s disappointing that it didn’t take a bold leap and present a film that consists solely of the supper itself in real time, perhaps lingering on the culinary aspects of the meal and the chitchat between the disciples seated further away from Jesus.” – Guardian Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Bodycam (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “There is an undeniable energy and spookiness to this low-budget chiller, which makes intelligently modest use of digital FX in a way that some bigger-budget projections would do well to emulate.” – Guardian Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Blueberry dreams (2023) 3/5 EDIT “Given the subject matter, this -- unsurprisingly -- is a work of stately, meditative pacing but never so slow-moving as to feel soporific.” – Guardian Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Learning You (2026) 2/5 EDIT “Director Tyler Sansom and his team of screenwriters flail around trying to pull the storylines together, but still forget to create coherent reasons for characters to move from one situation to another. ” – Guardian Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Dust (2026) EDIT “Dust icily exposes how character can evaporate in the crucible of greed, but the plodding pace makes this ethical exercise feel attenuated and flat by the time the climax rolls around.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird) (2026) EDIT “White’s jaunty editing ensures the proceedings roll merrily along, and yet the richness of detail in every frame makes this feel longer than its lean 71-minute running time, but not at all in a negative way. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 10, 2026 Full Review A Child of My Own (2026) EDIT “Chilean director Maite Alberdi continues to blur, smudge and gleefully mess with the lines between fiction and fact in her latest, the by-turns highly comical and then suddenly moving A Child of My Own.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Dolly (2025) 62% 2/5 EDIT “It’s a bit of a snooze, but Therese is very good at channelling terror and distress; she really gets to go hog wild with those modes at the end in one long tribute to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. ” – Guardian Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Worldbreaker (2025) 41% 2/5 EDIT “Pondering what all this means in terms of contemporary concepts of masculinity is much more interesting than the film itself, which feels very much like something lifted wholesale from video game culture.” – Guardian Mar 3, 2026 Full Review The God of Frogs (2026) 2/5 EDIT “The whole shebang is patently silly, and the big gestural acting indicates that the cast knows that very well, but everyone seems to be having fun so it’s hard to get too mad at the result.” – Guardian Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Crazy Old Lady (2025) 73% 3/5 EDIT “We’re here for the chance to appreciate Maura’s impeccable timing and charismatic screen presence. It’s not a deep work, but it’s relentlessly fun if you’re not squeamish” – Guardian Feb 24, 2026 Full Review A New Dawn (2026) EDIT “While Shinomiya’s visuals are admirably original, the script doesn’t have the emotional heft that helps the best Japanese cartoons crossover beyond niche fan bases. Still, it drifts along pleasantly enough” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Scare Out (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Scare Out doesn’t have the psychological depth of the first, immaculate Infernal Affairs film, but Zhu is tremendously watchable as a spymaster with secrets of his own/” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Bare Skin (2026) 2/5 EDIT “Montes and his crew pull off some well-timed scares thanks to sharp editing skills and atmospheric lighting but he would definitely benefit from learning a bit more about how to get the best from actors.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Home Stories (2026) EDIT “As an intentionally contrapuntal portrait of contemporary German identity with some of the many contradictions and complications one would expect, it just about works, although local audiences will naturally get the most out of it.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 19, 2026 Full Review A Prayer for the Dying (2026) EDIT “"Prayer" will definitely make a name for, or at least cement the reputations of, many of the talents attached to it. That goes especially for writer-director Dara Van Dusen.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Sunny Dancer (2026) EDIT “The easily spotted interludes where the young cast, all of them fast-ascending talents, were allowed to let rip, cut loose and improvise their pretty little hearts out cut the sweetness and create needed teenage texture.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Queen at Sea (2026) 95% EDIT “That commitment to both technical and emotional veracity pays dividends all round, creating a work that’s not exactly fun to watch but one that feels sincere, urgent and unflinchingly honest.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Only Rebels Win (2026) EDIT “[Only Rebels Win] offers a workable blend of new and old, contemporary geopolitics and local socioeconomic tensions rubbing up against primordial, universal passions and follies.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) 86% 3/5 EDIT “It never provokes full-on out loud laughs, but there are wry chuckles to be had and the ferocity of the execution is pretty fun.” – Guardian Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Eli Roth Presents: Jimmy and Stiggs (2024) 64% 1/5 EDIT “Viewers are advised to bring painkillers to this, and possibly a good book to read during the dull interstitial bits.” – Guardian Feb 10, 2026 Full Review André Is an Idiot (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “There’s nothing radical or groundbreaking about either that message or the film-making on show here, but Ricciardi and Janice’s honesty and indeed that of all those around him, prove to be very moving in the long run.” – Guardian Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 65% 2/5 EDIT “Shelter, formulaically directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Greenland) working from a script by Ward Parry (The Shattering), feels populated by indestructible plastic tropes that have cracked and faded after years of scorching sun exposure.” – Guardian Feb 2, 2026 Full Review
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