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The Devil Wears Prada 2
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Leans too heavily on nostalgia-laden callbacks, rather than truly asking where these characters would be, 20 years later ... As ever, Emily is the queen bee. Blunt’s perfectly poised put-downs trump Miranda’s marvellous malignance.
Posted Apr 29, 2026
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The Devil Wears Prada
(2006)
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Stephen A. Russell
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The Devil Wears Prada takes you on a wild ride through a rarefied world, where the punchlines are still as fresh as florals, even if Miranda would snarl that they’re hardly groundbreaking for spring.
Posted Apr 29, 2026
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Seven Snipers
(2026)
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Sarah Ward
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What the film lacks in surprises, it makes up for by concisely delivering exactly what it promises.
Posted Apr 28, 2026
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Exit 8
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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2026’s best video game adaptation ... With his attentiveness and precision, plus the thoughtful ways that he expands upon his source material, it couldn’t be more apparent that Kawamura was a player of The Exit 8 first.
Posted Apr 27, 2026
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3.5/5
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Apex
(2026)
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Anthony Morris
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While it’s true this doesn’t really do anything new story-wise, it firmly commits to doing the same old stuff in extreme fashion. With this kind of story, that counts for a lot.
Posted Apr 24, 2026
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Beast
(2026)
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Sarah Ward
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Fond of a cliche but remaining crowd-pleasing, and predictably plotted but largely powerfully performed.
Posted Apr 23, 2026
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Alphabet Lane
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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Ambitious and beguiling ... the type of bold swing that perhaps only a first-time filmmaker would take.
Posted Apr 23, 2026
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The Deb
(2024)
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Sarah Ward
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Wilson is a spirited and enthusiastic filmmaker ... but The Deb’s knack for casting all but her own role is the movie’s greatest strength.
Posted Apr 13, 2026
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The Drama
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Twists what appears to be a sassy romantic comedy right out of shape, bent into an anxiety-inducing WTF ... Borgli’s The Drama, expertly commanded by Zendaya and Pattinson sliding along the knife’s edge, is the moment we find ourselves mired in.
Posted Apr 01, 2026
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Proclivitas
(2025)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Proclivitas may leave us wanting a little bit more, but Tunnecliffe’s confident direction ensures we’ll be waiting, eagerly.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Project Hail Mary
(2026)
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Sarah Ward
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A stellar page-to-screen gem, another great in the lonely spaceman canon, and an ode to competence, camaraderie, intelligence and empathy that’s as warmhearted and earnest as it is thrilling and moving.
Posted Mar 18, 2026
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Anemone
(2025)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Bean and Day-Lewis senior are sterling actors, but even they struggle to ground Ronan’s lumbering screenplay ... Anemone feels, at last, like it only got made because of you know who.
Posted Mar 12, 2026
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3.5/5
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War Machine
(2026)
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Anthony Morris
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The story's familiarity just means it’s easier to focus on what counts, which would be the action sequences – and they’re varied, effective and relentless.
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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The Plague
(2025)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Like the fainting mania of Anna Rose Holmer’s breathtaking film, The Fits, Polinger’s en pointe portrayal of youthful ferocity allows just the right amount of doubt –and the ambiguity has you wondering if there is a plague on their pool house?
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
(2025)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Rajab’s testimony is integral to this refusal to allow her voice to be annihilated. This reconstruction is a refusal to allow her murderers to rewrite her story with their lies.
Posted Mar 07, 2026
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Much wilder in spirit than Gyllenhaal’s also feminist-fired debut feature – the Elena Ferrante adaptation The Lost Daughter, which also featured Buckley – The Bride! is a ferociously stylish beast with a bleeding heart.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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Saccharine
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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An acerbic interrogation of the onerous body image demands that are thrust upon young women by social media and their merciless peers, Saccharine is equal parts about self-torturing disgust and empowered resistance.
Posted Mar 03, 2026
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Floodland
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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Excellent and essential ... it isn’t easy to capture the precariousness, the stress and the beauty of dwelling in Lismore with such care and in such depth.
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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Sad Girlz
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Mexican filmmaker Fernanda Tovar delicately handles the aftermath of sexual assault ... in a non-didactic way that will nevertheless prove an invaluable conversation-starter for young adults mature enough to consider enthusiastic consent.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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The Loneliest Man in Town
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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If, like me, you can’t get enough of proudly stubborn oldies holding the line against property developers from hell, a la Aquarius, then this delightful, Vienna-set character study will be the stuff of dreams for you too.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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The Education of Jane Cumming
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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German filmmaker Sophie Heldman was fascinated by the true story of the 19th-century teachers Marianne Woods and Jane Pirie ... when Mia Tharia’s titular character ... complains about their closeness, scandal ensues.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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In A Whisper
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Tunisian filmmaker Leyla Bouzid unpicks the intergenerational trauma of queer erasure in this radiant family drama ... wonderfully captured by cinematographer Sébastien Goepfert
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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Trial of Hein
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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German filmmaker Kai Stänicke’s startlingly assured debut feature is a strange and beguiling beast ... Memory itself is on the line, as the muddy waters are stirred in this cracking mystery.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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5/5
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Rose
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer’s mesmerising third feature harnesses the unbridled acting power of The Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Hüller ... this gorgeously shot, black-and-white masterpiece, my joint fave at the Berlinale.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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5/5
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Queen at Sea
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Juliette Binoche puts in a performance for the ages in this astonishing, if confronting, London-set family drama ... There are no easy answers in the thorny morality play that follows
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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Rolling Papers
(2024)
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Sarah Ward
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Rolling Papers revels in the hope and joy of chasing a dream, and of having a purpose, while also appreciating how and why reality can interrupt – and why that might be welcome.
Posted Feb 22, 2026
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Made in EU
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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A clear-eyed and compelling look at the repercussions of capitalism’s love of profits over people, textile industry standards, humanity’s incessant need for a scapegoat and the relationship between the European Union’s member countries.
Posted Feb 22, 2026
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Hungarian Wedding
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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Director Csaba Káel and screenwriter Miksa Békési prove perceptive with this 80s-set film, with cultural specificity and emotional depth up there with pulsating dance scenes and sparkling chemistry as Hungarian Wedding’s biggest strengths.
Posted Feb 22, 2026
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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The film’s musical-infused approach, complete with hymn-inspired song-and-dance numbers, is mesmerising. And in the lead, Amanda Seyfried gives her greatest performance yet.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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The Piano Accident
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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Now a three-time star for Dupieux after Mandibles and Smoking Causes Coughing, Exarchopoulos keeps having a ball tapping into the director’s wavelength.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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The Son and the Sea
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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Stroma Cairns crafts a tender examination of masculinity, and a film as resonant as it is visually striking.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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Franz
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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As well as making a star out of German actor Idan Weiss as its lead, Franz gets playful, thrillingly and engagingly so.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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Pompei: Below the Clouds
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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Haunting both in its beauty and its contemplation of the full scope of everyday existence.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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Arco
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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Gorgeous, imaginative, heartfelt and hopeful ... the best animated movie of the past year.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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Stunning ... there's no more exhilarating ode to Elvis for obsessives, the somewhat fond and the barely aware alike than this.
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3.5/5
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Addition
(2024)
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Anthony Morris
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Grace is a strong central character who could easily have anchored either a bubbly rom-com or a more sombre look at her struggles. But Addition never gives anyone else in her orbit enough air to breathe
Posted Feb 09, 2026
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Stephen A. Russell
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An enjoyable enough character study, it coasts along on the near-unrivalled strength of Dern, with Arnett just about keeping up.
Posted Feb 06, 2026
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Marty Supreme is propulsive fun, all go, go, gosh, he’s a liability.
Posted Jan 19, 2026
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Once again, we’ll land on astonishingly incongruous, wildly beguiling tenderness ... majestic filmmaking at its finest.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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Christy
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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A successful showcase for Sweeney’s dramatic talents ... Christy knows how to sting, and also how to float.
Posted Jan 12, 2026
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Sinners
(2025)
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Mel Campbell
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Rollickingly original … Contain[s] such intricate commentaries on cultural power regimes that I could write [a] whole book about them – yet in moments of pure performance they resonate intuitively.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Mel Campbell
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Bronstein’s fever dream of maternal burnout takes us inside Linda’s (Rose Byrne) tortured psyche, tearing sound and visuals apart like a birth injury – but in an intensely multisensory way that keeps us wondering if ‘this is really happening’.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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Bird
(2024)
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Mel Campbell
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I’m still exhilarated by how deftly Arnold infuses her trademark social realism with ancient, wild magic. … It’s atavistically satisfying: the wondrous opposite of folk horror.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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Carol
(2015)
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Mel Campbell
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Haynes’s swooningly meticulous 1950s period detail [is] an ideological frame these two women gaze past and through, like Therese through her camera’s viewfinder, so they can access the romantic intimacy of being in love at Christmas as their true selves.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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Krampus
(2015)
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Mel Campbell
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It’s wild that this frankly unsettling folkloric figure has been relatively unexplored in horror movies. Hardcore slasher fans might find Krampus too family-friendly – all tinkle and no bell. But [it] indulges our inarticulate craving for pagan justice…
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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Love the Coopers
(2015)
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Mel Campbell
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Critics in 2015 hated this aggressively schmaltzy ensemble family dramedy. I, however, warmly recommend this star-studded feast of emotional manipulation … Be ready for an absurd late twist revealing the identity of the wistful narrator (Steve Martin).
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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The Night Before
(2015)
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Mel Campbell
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Rather sweetly, it turns familiar, raucous bro-antics into a pageant about accepting the party’s over. … Bearish and exuberant, Seth Rogen’s Isaac gets absolutely off his holiday-sweatered tits [while] US comedy faces show up like sixpences in a pudding.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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Joy
(2015)
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Mel Campbell
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What makes ‘Joy’ peak Christmas viewing is that its plucky, practical heroine succeeds while carrying her bumbling family … Joy’s best revenge is to blanket them in a snowfall of generosity they know they don’t deserve.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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The Serpent's Skin
(2025)
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Stephen A. Russell
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Proud trans filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay recalls the likes of Reiner Werner Fassbinder with her fiercely DIY approach ... burns with bountiful hope.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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Bump: A Christmas Film
(2025)
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Sarah Ward
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Bump serves up a reminder of why viewers have loved spending time in its company.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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