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2/5
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (2026) Owen Myers Cameron and Eilish aren’t focused on exploring why her particular mix of ballsiness and introspection has resonated so deeply with millions. That would have made for a fascinating [documentary]... instead of this splashy style experiment.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition (2026) Peter Bradshaw It’s cheerful and watchable, if a relentlessly on-brand fan promo, corporately policed and controlled, using vintage archive photos and video rather than closeup talking-head footage of the band now.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Jimpa (2025) Peter Bradshaw Sophie Hyde has directed an earnestly intended but very indulgent film... it blandly congratulates itself on its sensitivity and cathartic honesty, but is without the spark of her 2019 quarterlifecrisis comedy Animals.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Neglected (2025) Leslie Felperin For all its cack-handedness, there’s some effort here to grapple with issues around institutional and personal guilt and the wrongs done to young people that might turn them into smirking, giggling serial killers.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Devils (1971) Philip French There is much to irritate in the film, but it's bold, individual and a landmark in British cinema, with outstanding performances from Oliver Reed as Grandier and Vanessa Redgrave as the possessed Mother Superior.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mortal Kombat II (2026) Benjamin Lee Treated like a premium format blockbuster does not do a film like Mortal Kombat II any favours, its junkiness less charming and more distracting, a street fighter suddenly forced to go pay-per-view.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sex Robots Are Coming (2017) Euan Ferguson I was all ready to dislike The Sex Robots Are Coming, but gently surprised at a non-prurient and intelligent take on advances in the girl-doll market, and simply jaw-dropped at the size of that market.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Swapped (2026) Benjamin Lee Unlike the greatest Pixar films that the director, Nathan Greno, and his three writers are trying to emulate, any sharper messaging gets quickly cast aside for a fairly rote buddy comedy quest narrative.
Posted May 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Rise of the Conqueror (2026) Phil Hoad With this less-than-inspiring script, Mortensen feels a shade too relaxed in the role; you’d believe in him to manage your securities portfolio, less so to found a dynasty.
Posted May 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Breakwater (2025) Phuong Le Considering Morgan’s distinctive eye for compositions and location shooting, this remains an assured first feature.
Posted May 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Self Driver (2024) Peter Bradshaw Though flawed and in need of some script development, adds up to a pertinent satirical comment on the gig economy and the Waymo-isation of the service industry.
Posted May 04, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Kokuho (2025) Peter Bradshaw The action is elegantly interspersed with kabuki performances.
Posted May 04, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Highlander (1986) Peter Bradshaw Those who can indulge it will find it uniquely quirky, funny and eccentrically ambitious.
Posted May 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hokum (2026) Peter Bradshaw It is an amusing and gruesome premise, which writer-director Damian McCarthy stretches out into a convoluted, bizarre extended narrative involving two separate hospital stays for Ohm.
Posted May 04, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century (2026) Frances Ryan There are flashes of another, better show.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
I've Seen All I Need to See (2025) Cath Clarke It’s film in which actors shot in closeup deliver lines looking pensive, with an air of meaning and depth, while not actually saying anything meaningful.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wolfram (2025) Luke Buckmaster Thornton, a rare director who is also his own cinematographer, knows how to conjure the thick, arid stink of a meat pie western. He delivers a film of rough-hewn, harsh beauty, as if it’s been dropped in the dust and stomped on.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wild Foxes (2025) Peter Bradshaw There are a lot of ideas and images swirling around this film; they don’t all gel... But the acting, physical presence and energy of Camille and his crew deliver a real punch.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea (2026) Phil Hoad With less daffy humour than previous film Scarlet Bond, the initially so-so animation picks up to a more sublime level by the climax.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
ADA - My Mother the Architect (2024) Peter Bradshaw Architect turned film-maker Yael Melamede presents us with this insightful, though perhaps faintly indulgent, portrait of her mother, Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melamede.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC (2026) Peter Bradshaw Although no amount of revisionist gallantry can conceal how terrible Yoko Ono’s vocals are, this has a historical fascination as they were Lennon’s only full-length concert performances after the Beatles’ split.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Peter Bradshaw This is good-natured, buoyant entertainment. It’s wearing well.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Top Gun (1986) Derek Malcolm This is, above all else, an advertisement for the current American Dream, as set out by President Reagan and orchestrated by a Hollywood that's at least still capable of icily efficient dream-fodder.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Brute 1976 (2025) Phil Hoad Amid this farrago, the political critique comes over more like accidental backspatter than meaningful statement.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Phantoms of July (2025) Cath Clarke Each of these people wander in and out of each other’s stories and meet up at the end for a strange and dreamlike adventure that, like rest of the film, pulls off quirky without being irritating or silly.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder (2024) Phuong Le Across these streams of oral history, what we find are not merely facts and figures, but feelings, in which pain and healing entwine.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Sheep Detectives (2026) Peter Bradshaw With a touch of Watership Down somewhere in the mix, this film, for some, may be off-putting. Actually, it makes for a sweet-natured family comedy, and a spiky and amusing cameo from Emma Thompson certainly doesn’t hurt.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Alphabet Lane (2025) Luke Buckmaster Litchfield’s elegantly immersive direction resists visual pop and overt aesthetic embellishments, intending us to stay focused on the dialogue and performances, which is where the film’s real texture lies.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Apex (2026) Luke Buckmaster The whole affair feels slick but soulless, with no personality or -- despite the lush settings -- any real sense of place.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Derek Malcolm The film is brightly made, as confident as its protagonist and by no means the bottom of the barrel.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Surviving Earth (2025) Cath Clarke Gajić’s script is too intelligent to present addiction as a battle against demons. Addiction is a terrible disease and with this mature, striking debut, Gajić hits her stride with confidence.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Exit 8 (2025) Peter Bradshaw This is an elegant, chilly dream of despair.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Last Spy (2025) Leslie Felperin This is a straightforward, scrupulously assembled documentary that pays tribute to retired spymaster Peter Sichel
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
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
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