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5/5
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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"Sirat" is an Arabic word for road or path, and, appropriately enough, this is a director with a firm notion of where he is going and what he wants to tell us along the way.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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3/5
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One Last Deal
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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Happily, our star – helped out by some energetic voice work down the old blower – has just about enough saucy graft to keep the project aloft.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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5/5
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Resurrection
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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Resurrection, shot with extravagant beauty by Dong Jingsong, makes more sense on first viewing than the director perhaps allows. Each story is whole in itself. But it has the quality of a gorgeous knot that will never fully be untied.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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3.5/5
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Midwinter Break
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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Hinds and Manville skilfully convey a relationship founded on the most fragile of intertwining insecurities. We get a sense that both understand the evasions they are making and accept them for fear of bringing the whole structure down upon their heads.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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4.5/5
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La Grazia
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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Sorrentino supplies the occasional surreal house-style flourish – a drifting tear observed in zero gravity – but mostly the director leans into the quiet complexities of Servillo’s turn.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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4/5
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Dead Man's Wire
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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[Al Pacino's] presence and the use of vintage TV cameras by the film’s cinematographer, Arnaud Potier, add to the sense that we’re watching a lost 1970s thriller.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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3/5
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Scarlet
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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Hosoda’s visual imagination remains formidable. It’s impossible not to swoon at the director’s reach. ...The storytelling proves less assured.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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3.5/5
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A Pale View of Hills
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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It’s a film of visual elegance and melancholic intent, yet it often feels as elusive as the memories it seeks to dramatise.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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4/5
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Project Hail Mary
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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If it were not for an unfortunate outbreak of too-many-endings syndrome – a hangover from the book – we might have had a classic for the ages. It is still pretty darn strong.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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2/5
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
(2026)
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Tara Brady
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What once felt coolly stylised now seems mannered, even silly. The cufflinks gleam from the heritage cosplay: the razor has dulled.
Posted Mar 07, 2026
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3.5/5
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Báite
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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Adapted by Sheena Lambert from her novel The Lake, Ruán Magan’s drama boasts pedigree, handsome visuals and solid, absorbing storytelling, even if its central murder mystery never quite quickens the pulse.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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2/5
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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It is loud. It is brash. It is wilfully discordant. But it also, alas, exhibits a contrasting strain of clunkiness that would be more at home in an undergraduate revue.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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4/5
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All You Need Is Kill
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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Occasionally, the 3D character animation and frame-rate stutter in the margins. But the film’s approximation of temporal confines never leaves the viewer feeling stuck in a moment.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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3/5
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Crime 101
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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We don’t demand hard realism from such a project, but a little more edge would have been nice. Solid, middlebrow entertainment, nonetheless.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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3/5
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The Moment
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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The film’s sardonic edge is dulled by a reliance on stereotypical depictions of philistine self-interest. Who would dream that music-industry hangers-on would be up-speaking solipsists? Well, almost everybody.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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5/5
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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Byrne refuses to sand down Linda’s harsher edges, yet she reveals the raw terror beneath the fury. The result is a bruising character study that challenges the audience to sift genuine catastrophe from psychic projection.
Posted Feb 22, 2026
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4/5
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The Secret Agent
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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It’s an odd arrangement: despite the languid pacing, the film evokes conspiracy chillers of the 1970s such as Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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4.5/5
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Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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As Amélie wrestles with death, grief and her own cultural displacement...the film swerves into the certainties of the conscious, adult world without losing its childlike lightness or comic touch.
Posted Feb 12, 2026
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3.5/5
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
(2024)
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Tara Brady
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This is not merely a nostalgic homage. Instead, it rechannels the mayhem of house-style architects Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones and Rod Scribner into a pleasing modern movie shape.
Posted Feb 11, 2026
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3/5
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Wuthering Heights
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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The wallowing in sexually suggestive egg yolk. The hilariously phallic architecture. Oliver chained to the fireplace. Better that than another politely reverent variation on Sunday-evening telly.
Posted Feb 09, 2026
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4.5/5
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Twinless
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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Grief is seldom this entertaining.
Posted Feb 06, 2026
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4/5
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My Father's Shadow
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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[My Father's Shadow] quietly marries personal and national histories, offering a deceptively sprawling portrait of Lagos, a family and the fragile, frantic ways people try to hold on against tyranny.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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4/5
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Send Help
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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All hail Sam Raimi – a different sort of treasure – for fashioning an entertainment that exploits all McAdams’s gifts to delightful and disturbing
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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4/5
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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Linklater repays the debt in a beautiful film that eschews granular analysis of the art for a broad celebration of Frenchness at its most proudly awkward.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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Camille
(1936)
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Irish Times Staff
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Opposite Garbo is Robert Taylor, who, as Armand, is a perfect foil to Garbo's emotional intensity.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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1/5
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Melania
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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No good impression emerges of the former Slovenian model. No bad impression emerges either. Ratner’s film achieves, rather, a sort of passive distance – as you might get by pointing a camera, for close to two hours, at a waterfall or a wheat field.
Posted Jan 31, 2026
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3/5
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Rabbit Trap
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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Technically, Rabbit Trap is assured, particularly in its use of analogue equipment and dense sound design. Emotionally, though, it remains curiously hollow.
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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3.5/5
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Primate
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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[Certain moments in the film] coalesce into amusing, tense and joyfully disposable entertainment carefully calibrated for audience shrieks and merriment.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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3/5
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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It could be enormously clunky, but the quiet warmth of Fraser’s performance, the delicacy of Hikari’s direction and the ravishing location work just about distract from the teeth-smarting sentimentality.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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2/5
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Mercy
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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There are no insights on screen that you won’t expect from speed-watching the trailer (or speed-reading this review). If this worst-case scenario does yet happen, it will surely not turn out quite so boringly.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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3/5
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The History of Sound
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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There is ... the sense throughout of a film rustling through its own innards in search of an emotional ember that refuses to catch fire. Nice to look at. Nice to listen too. Easily forgotten.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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3/5
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H Is for Hawk
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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The goshawk reminds us how enthusiastically humans project themselves on to the animal kingdom. The film reminds us how limiting these analogies can be.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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3/5
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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...the mise-en-scene is meticulous, the violence intermittently darkly comic, but the effect is tonally various and curiously blunted.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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4/5
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Megadeth: Behind the Mask
(2026)
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Tara Brady
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As ever, Mustaine is unmistakably himself. The tunes are good, too. Godspeed, Megadeth.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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4/5
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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[Kaouther Ben Hania] carefully sidesteps ethical questions about the use of performance alongside archival evidence with a clear-headed chronicle of a tragedy and of wider Palestinian suffering.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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3/5
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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This lachrymose yarn ... believes very much in its own irresistibility. That such a claim proves borderline justified is mostly down to bravura performances from two old troopers and charming ones from two committed youngsters.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3/5
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Giant
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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The core (largely true) story is just about strong enough to keep the film on its feet through all 12 rounds. A narrow victory on points.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Donald Clarke
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Part one sweated to establish a Britain mired in fantastic decay that echoed developments in the real world. The new film, evocatively shot by Sean Bobbitt, feels like a trivial, if entertaining, diversion on the way to a more substantial closing fall.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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2/5
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Tara Brady
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The seasoned comic actors Alan Ruck, Jameela Jamil and Molly Shannon are criminally underused. Colin Wilkes’s sleek costumes can’t compensate for the lack of onscreen chemistry. They might as well be wearing hazmat suits.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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3/5
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Oh Canada
(2024)
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Tara Brady
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It lacks the wild provocations of Schrader’s scalding recent trilogy, but Oh, Canada pokes and probes in quieter, sneakier ways.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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4/5
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Peter Hujar's Day
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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Whishaw’s performance is a theatrical masterclass in controlled ramble; Hall’s is the art of listening, with responses that range from concern to a slightly cocked head.
Posted Jan 02, 2026
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4.5/5
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
(2023)
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Tara Brady
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Wiseman has made films about bureaucracies, city halls and cabarets, but here the institution is pleasure itself. It’s a feast that will leave many viewers ravenous.
Posted Jan 02, 2026
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5/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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For all the trademark Safdie unease, Marty Supreme remains an enormously good time at the cinema. The 150 minutes speed by as we encounter an array of brilliantly cast cameos.
Posted Dec 31, 2025
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3/5
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David Bowie: The Final Act
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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Embraced as a musical primer, Bowie: The Final Act offers an amiable if scattershot overview that hopscotches between early Glastonbury, Ziggy Stardust and Blackstar.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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5/5
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Cover-Up
(2025)
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Tara Brady
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At a moment when truth is increasingly relative, Cover-Up acknowledges the grim continuation of the state apparatus that Hersh first exposed in the aftermath of My Lai. Without journalists of his calibre, we’d be none the wiser.
Posted Dec 27, 2025
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3/5
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Palestine '36
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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Making skilful use of colourised archive footage, the film drags up not just unavoidable pointers to the area’s current miseries, but also reminders of similar western interventions in parts as remote as Vietnam and (yes) Ireland.
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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5/5
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Born That Way
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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The edit moves seamlessly from biography to a discussion of rights often denied children with exceptional needs. "Their issues are not health issues," Lydon says. "They are who they are."
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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3.5/4
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Testimony
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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The film, edited with characteristic fluency by Emer Reynolds, makes no pretence that all issues have been tidied away. But it does at least allow that the survivors are achieving the status of national heroes. Few will complain at that.
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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3/5
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Christy
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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The inevitable redemption is handled with great vim and a shameless determination to cause audiences to punch air and dab eyes. Only those with the coldest of hearts will be able to resist.
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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4/5
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Pillion
(2025)
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Donald Clarke
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At the heart of Pillion, a very English class of reasonableness brushes against an equally English interest in hierarchical kink. Nothing wrong with that sort of thing, but doesn’t it play terrible havoc with the knees.
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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