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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
Reminders of Him (2026) Simon Foster [Grounded] by Monroe, deftly pitched by director Vanessa Caswill (from Hoover’s script) and rendered lovingly cinematic by DOP Tim Ives, REMINDERS OF HIM is a top-tier tearjerker.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Moment (2026) Simon Foster Charli, in a winning star-turn as a version of herself, fearlessly parodies her own image and integrity as savagely as she does everything else that continues to linger from the Bratosphere.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Simon Foster When handed over to forces-of-nature Weaving and Newton to do the sisterhood slaying, the sequel is a bloody blast; without them, it plays ugly, gratuitous and a lot less fun.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Dolly (2025) Simon Foster With it’s grainy aesthetic and shaky-cam reliance, it looks and feels like an early-80s ‘video nasty’, writ large.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Cold Storage (2026) Simon Foster There’s something tonally awry with the execution; maybe Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville are too earnest, maybe Joe Keery isn’t quite the comic-foil everyman needed in the lead.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Per Aspera Ad Astra (2026) Simon Foster [A] crowning work of the Chinese film industry’s special effects sector; every new dreamworld is an intricately detailed masterpiece of someone’s imagination, and a wonder to behold.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Simon Foster PROJECT HAIL MARY colours in a vast effects canvas but offers little more than intellectual infantilism. With Astronaut Ken as our self-taught pilot, it may be the dumbest deep-space adventure ever made.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Simon Foster A maelstrom of movie memories and lavish visions, slamming into each other in search of a purpose.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Micro Budget (2024) Simon Foster This ode to industry-outlier fame whores is a street-level version of AppleTV’s hit The Studio. A feel-bad satire aimed at the industry’s low-tier exploiters and the boardrooms that enable them.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Scream 7 (2026) Simon Foster MVP is Courteney Cox, back as tart-mouthed reporter Gale Weathers, and Williamson films a good slashin’, but it seems naggingly reductive and strained.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Simon Foster Amanda Seyfried is a blazing torrent of faith-fuelled passion and biblical bluster, yet humanistically fragile.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Scare Out (2026) Simon Foster The once-great Zhang Yimou’s underbaked, over-edited pastiche of techno-thriller cliches [is] dull, often incomprehensible and, given the recent heightening of controversial population surveillance technology, a bit on the nose.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Blades of the Guardians (2026) Simon Foster A wildly entertaining wuxia spectacle that imbues its characters - heroes and villain alike - with humour, depth and chemistry.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Fackham Hall (2025) Simon Foster More relentlessly silly than side-splittingly funny, there are still enough inspired moments in this Downton Abbey/Upstairs Downstairs skewering to make fans of the genre happy.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Chronology of Water (2025) Simon Foster Stewart’s bold aesthetics - jagged edits, kaleidoscopic soundscapes and avant-garde framing - combine to depict a fractured personality in various stages of decline and rebuild.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Hermit (2025) Simon Foster The Hermit legitimately surprises with an icky final act reveal (and deftly-used needle-drop) that elevates the material.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Crime 101 (2026) Simon Foster Layton’s films are bathed in mood and menace, notably his brilliant 2012 debut THE IMPOSTER, but he usually has a stronger grip on logic and pacing, which aren’t as assured here.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Simon Foster [There] are moments of guilty pleasure - as Isabella, Cathy’s live-in sycophant-turned-Heathcliff’s dog-collared submissive, Alison Oliver is great - but it falls short of the potential held in the pairing of Fennell and the source material.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Simon Foster Director Cooper...does good work here, capturing a ground-level naturalism and authenticity in his characters and setting that proves insightful and winning.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Scarlet (2025) Simon Foster The photo-realistic grandeur of Hosoda’s bleak landscapes and ravishing renderings of his heroine are breathtaking.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Shelter (2026) Simon Foster Its heartbeat is the bond shared between the terrific Breathnatch...and an ageing Statham, whose face of twisted scar tissue, deeply-cratered forehead and cavernous worry-lines makes him as ‘human’ as he’s ever been on-screen.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Imagine (2025) Simon Foster It’s a wild, wonderful, often abstract ride...sometimes more aesthetically in line with an art gallery installation.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Worldbreaker (2025) Simon Foster Director Brad Anderson is less interested in overstating the creature feature tropes of his premise and more at ease with the family dynamic.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Send Help (2026) Simon Foster So much of Sam Raimi’s first film in four years is such a funny, fierce gender arm-wrestle that when it starts to derail in the final act, audience goodwill all but drags it over the finish line.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Melania (2026) Simon Foster This is not a film concerned at all with the America of today; it is propaganda that serves the formation of a future non-democracy.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Simon Foster Gans and his co-writers layer their narrative (tragic love story; really haunted memories; witch-cult abuse) like game designers Konami layered their game play, but only one nails the experience.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Signing Tony Raymond (2025) Simon Foster Owen exhibits a depth of understanding for his working class characters (notably a terrific Mira Sorvino as the damaged but determined mom) and sharp wit in his takedown of principle-free college ‘ball big business.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Mercy (2026) Simon Foster The energy it spends entirely ignoring that it presents a near future American society diametrically inverted to the existing Constitutional democracy (at least, at time of writing) is quite remarkable and hugely disappointing.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Glendora (2026) Simon Foster Armand’s work offers a Wiseman-like tour-de-force of observational cinematic storytelling; one never senses her camera is intrusive, but the images it captures are indelibly insightful.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Simon Foster Grotesquely ambitious ping-ponger ‘Marty Mauser’ is exactly the fidgety, shouty, sexy, toxic character that is an actor’s dream, and Chalamet goes all in on the acne-scarred young man’s anxiety-inducing geographical and emotional odyssey.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Raja Saab (2025) Simon Foster Telugu superstar Prabhas shoehorns his appeal into this ill-fitting vehicle, a low-brow pitch to his legion of fans that hurls broad comedy, half-baked horror tropes and laptop special effects with little concern for coherence or character.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Simon Foster If cinema is the only real artform for the masses, then surely SONG SUNG BLUE is the artform at its purest. Isn’t that what Oscar recognises?
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Urchin (2025) Simon Foster Dickinson indulges in some showy movie moments in the final few minutes, unnecessarily at odds with the gritty street-level realism of all that goes before.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Christy (2025) Simon Foster Michôd doesn’t rebuild the sports drama genre with his often conventional handling of the material, but nor does he miss the heart and soul of Martin’s story.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Flat Girls (2025) Simon Foster Few films this year will capture the tenderness of friendship and complexity of coming-of-age like FLAT GIRLS.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Simon Foster Cameron’s third space opera/neo-western saga reps the longest running time, thinnest plotting and most risible dialogue of the franchise, while managing to reduce his once cutting-edge visual flair to its most generic baseline functionality.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Simon Foster [A] remarkably joyous film, a love letter that captures not just the energy of the day-to-day production of BREATHLESS but also the foundations of the legacy it has forged.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
David (2025) Simon Foster DAVID is an admirably ambitious production, but its overstuffed narrative robs it of any sense of wonder.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Addition (2024) Simon Foster It’s all negligible melodrama, until Grace decides to cure her mental illness with a good apartment clean-out, and things turn offensively simple-minded.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Simon Foster Call it a Christmas miracle, but Mike P. Nelson’s reboot of this all-but-forgotten slasher franchise is just what the PG-diluted horror genre needs right now.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Ella McCay (2025) Simon Foster Brooks was one of the driving intellectual and creative forces behind ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’, arguably the greatest career woman character arc of all time; where’s that guy?
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Simon Foster It is never quite the sum of its parts, but THE CARPENTER’S SON is an earnest, occasionally brilliant, often brutal depiction of faith and family.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Twiggy (2024) Simon Foster Sadie Frost’s celebration of the ‘60s pop culture icon is a sweet, slight profile that, much like Lesley ‘Twiggy’ Lawson herself, peaks very early on.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Nuremberg (2025) Simon Foster Most importantly, writer-director Vanderbilt’s epic yet intimate dramatic thriller ultimately affords each historic figure the filmic legacy their actions deserve.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
This Ordinary Thing (2025) Simon Foster Davis has an artist’s touch, finding humanity in horror and deep empathy in the grainy grading of his frames. A profoundly potent use of words and images.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Kokuho (2025) Simon Foster Lee’s staging of classic Kabuki productions, the passionate commitment of the entire cast...and the glorious designs of costumers Kumiko Ogawa and Kazuo Matsuda are never not breathtaking.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Simon Foster Disney’s smartest, cutest, aesthetically-richest animated world gets it wonderfully right, 2 for 2.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Age of Disclosure (2025) Simon Foster It’s a polished production, several tiers above the usual Tubi trashpile where a lot of these docos dwell, but it’s now more likely that the inevitable THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE 2 will prove the truth is out there.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Heaven (1987) Simon Foster My takeaway (as a fellow agnostic) is that the cumulative effect of the intercutting film images suggests that God’s power is most evident in the creation of art, while personal beliefs are fine and all but…y’know, whatever gets you through the day.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Blue Eyed Girl (2025) Simon Foster The pic’s sweet and soulful centre is the lovely Marisa Coughlan, working from her own script; [she] finds a warm truth as ‘Jane’, the 40-ish L.A. mum suddenly faced with a lot of emotional Midwest baggage and bittersweet mature-age dramatics.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
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