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Philip De Semlyen

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Two Prosecutors (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “A slow cinema treat, Two Prosecutors rewards patience, with endless waiting rooms and antechambers both a limbo state and a last-chance saloon for Kornyev. It’s a haunting, mesmerising, pessimistic piece of work. ” – Time Out Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Arco (2025) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Director Bienvenu, who also voices helpful robot Mikki in the French version, has crafted a family film that’s offbeat and full of heart. ” – Time Out Mar 18, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “If there were such a thing as an aural cleanse, you’d need one when the credits roll. ” – Time Out Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 76% 3/5 EDIT “Newton is a fun addition as the bubbly Faith, but the game Weaving is MVP again: a sharp finger in the eye of the one percent. This is a broader sequel, though, that only has more of the same for her to do.” – Time Out Mar 18, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “The symbolism is lightly worn here in a gently observational film that’s underpinned with humanism and compassion. Here, the healing happens when you’re busy worrying about the dishes. ” – Time Out Mar 13, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 4/5 EDIT “With Gosling and Hüller to the fore, Lord and Miller have delivered a cosmic adventure with hope in its heart and a twinkle in its eye. It’s the science-fiction blockbuster we need in these fractious times.” – Time Out Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 91% 3/5 EDIT “It’s often enthralling -- especially with Murphy at its heart -- though rarely explosive. "Peaky" fans won’t care a jot. Not with Tommy Shelby trotting around Birmingham like he’s in High Noon.” – Time Out Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Smart storytelling and snappy editing elevate the jokes and enrich the emotions... The animation, bursting with autumnal colours, is a delight too. It won’t save the planet but it just might fire up a new generation of Mabels.” – Time Out Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Honestly, even if the merest waft of bagpipe on ‘Mull of Kintyre’ brings you out in hives, Man on the Run is still full of treasures.” – Time Out Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% 4/5 EDIT “It’s refreshing to see a grown-up big-screen thriller this well crafted -- and one that cares for its grounded characters and their predicaments. If it comes off the road once or twice, it’s still well worth the ride. ” – Time Out Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “A gloriously over-the-top battle of wits that plays out like a violent mix of Cast Away, Misery, Lord of the Flies, and a day out with Bear Grylls. ” – Time Out Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “It might make you think about relationships differently; it probably won’t make you want to take up stand-up.” – Time Out Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Kangaroo (2025) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Unfussily directed by Kate Woods with an eye for spectacular Outback landscapes and the extraordinary quality of light, Kangaroo is a gentle crowd-pleaser.” – Time Out Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Saipan (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Finally, someone has returned to The Damned United’s cunning formula for a good football movie: don’t show any football. ” – Time Out Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Movie monsters come in all shapes and sizes, but they’re rarely as diminutive and deceptively cuddly as the pet chimp-turned-brainy-hell​-beast in this endearingly daft B-movie​ horror.” – Time Out Jan 14, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 4/5 EDIT “The Bone Temple is one of those rare sequels that doesn’t just improve on its predecessor, it improves it... This is simultaneously the nastiest and most soulful of the franchise to date -- and the most probing.” – Time Out Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Sure, it’s a somewhat honeyed portrait that lacks voices to put the other side across. But as the flimsiness of the case against Assange is laid bare, so too is a system that tried to suffocate, torture and crush him to protect its interests.” – Time Out Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “Unlike the first two Avatars, which even haters would concede were epic journeys of discovery, with Cameron as an attentive guide to a dazzling alien universe, a sense of familiarity kicks in.” – Time Out Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 5/5 EDIT “Marty Supreme is a stunning achievement, a breathless yet precisely controlled joyride full of vivid characters, hairpin turns and did-that-just-happen moments -- and a modernist fairy tale about big ambitions colliding with grubby street-level realities.” – Time Out Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “There have been better animated sequels and more epic ones, but has there ever been a fluffier follow-up than this bouncy, buoyant caper starring at least half the nature world?” – Time Out Nov 25, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “It’s a movie that got up on the wrong side of the bed and compensated with four quadruple espressos.” – Time Out Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 71% 4/5 EDIT “You can feel archival poring that went into the research. It lends authenticity and intellectual rigour to this extraordinary, century-defining event. Crowe and co do the rest. ” – Time Out Nov 12, 2025 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “With Ralph Fiennes gravely essaying the controversial choirmaster at its heart, it does a lovely job of swerving the obvious notes but misplaces its stirring crescendo.” – Time Out Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Dragonfly (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “For a study of human connection at its most honest and affecting, with two remarkable lead performances, Dragonfly is a powerfully striking experience.” – Time Out Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 87% 5/5 EDIT “ Zhao doesn’t just tell you about the healing power of art, she shows you. Prepare your tear ducts accordingly. ” – Time Out Oct 27, 2025 Full Review
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