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1/5
Mortal Kombat II (2026) Robbie Collin Directed, like the last, by Australia’s Simon McQuoid, it is another dramatisation of the crass and embarrassing beat ’em up series famous for the elaborate “finishing moves” with which one battler disembowels the other at the end of a bout.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Devils (1971) Marc Lee Russell has a number of points to make about hypocrisy, church-versus-state politics, mass hysteria and what happens when religious fervour is fused with repressed sensuality. But such unrelenting gruesomeness makes this a hard film to watch.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Making Life on Earth: Attenborough's Greatest Adventure (2026) Anita Singh The programme doesn’t fawn over Attenborough, but celebrates him, and gives equal time to his colleagues in the Natural History Unit. More than anything, it’s a wonderful exercise in nostalgia.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Sex Robots Are Coming (2017) Jasper Rees Sexbots are the next big thing in Artificial Intelligence.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Robbie Collin Hathaway and Streep are at the respective peaks of their comedic powers.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Sheep Detectives (2026) Robbie Collin It’s a marshmallowy all-age confection, as fluffy as its ovine protagonists, even if some aspects are likely to elicit a species-appropriate meh-eh-eh-eh-eh.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mother Mary (2026) Robbie Collin As you watch, you find yourself continually grabbing at meaning but, like a ghost, your fingers slip straight through.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century (2026) Anita Singh The programme is a portrait of the late Queen’s life but also a means of looking back through the decades at our own, more ordinary lives, in which the monarch was a reassuring constant.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me (2026) Jasper Rees Draper is a different sort of supplicant, a beta-bloke in pursuit of a payday. After two years traipsing after [Miriam Margolyes]...he has gathered enough material to cobble together a late-life epitaph of a woman who refuses to go quietly.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Victoria Mather There are some gloriously comic moments and some well-deserved satirical stabs at American suburbia.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Michael (2026) Robbie Collin When you leave the cinema, what’s ringing in your ears isn’t the music -- it’s the words: “Yes, and…?”
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Fight Club (1999) Andrew O'Hagan The film is made good by Edward Norton. He is dead-pan and dead funny.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Legend (1985) Eric Shorter [Legend] manages to merge every sort of nursery myth with every sort of cinematic trick to catch the eye. The make-up and the special effects are dazzling.
Posted Apr 18, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Robbie Collin The squeamish are advised to look out for some repulsive business with toenails: if that’s as much as you can take, it’s time to leave.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Tim Robey Every time we switch to song-and-dance numbers as an escape, it’s like being force-fed spoonfuls of sugary dessert while we’re trying to savour an intense, bitter main course.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass (2026) Ed Power It’s an agreeably ambling tale, well told and with the quality of an anecdote spun over a pint. In other words, the Paul McCartney of music documentaries – pleasant, unpretentious and enough to put anyone in a good mood.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 3 (1993) Hugo Davenport Scrappy.
Posted Apr 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Jerry Maguire (1996) Quentin Curtis This is the performance of Cruise's career. In Jerry Maguire he has found a part exploits the showboating swagger of his earlier roles, and also finds something deeper -- the still beating heart beneath the corporate bluster.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Outcome (2026) Robbie Collin As it is, it has a weird, half-finished vibe, with a lumpy, repetitive structure, a bizarre colour palette that resembles an exploding Tango Ice Blast machine, and too many scenes that wear on well beyond their natural usefulness.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Marc Lee The dialogue is sharp, the songs forgettable.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Quentin Curtis Selick boldly embellishes Dahl's characters, without betraying them.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor/Victoria (1982) Patrick Gibbs I enjoyed much more the comic scnens in Pink Panther style...
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
On Moonlight Bay (1951) George Campbell Dixon On Moonlight Bay is what Americans call folksy—a good-humored and agreeable trifle about the small-town girl and the boy next door.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mouthpiece (1932) George Campbell Dixon In the end the "mouthpiece" does one good deed... With the incurable sentimentality which is one of the roots of the country's lawlessness, most Americans will assume that this wipes the slate clean.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Thieves Like Us (1974) Patrick Gibbs A puzzling, unsatisfactory, but not unstylish film, it would seem to be attempting some feat of alienation -- and succeeding, I would say, but not quite as intended.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Conrack (1974) Patrick Gibbs Small children should be protected from such whimsicality. Audiences, too, I might add.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Longest Yard (1974) Patrick Gibbs It took me some time to appreciate the originality of what comes out as a very black and crazy comedy.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Towering Inferno (1974) Patrick Gibbs If I'd been in charge I would have tried more good old-fashioned water and less bad old-fashioned melodrama.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Robbie Collin It’s testament to just how bad the original Super Mario Bros Movie was that this sequel can be a noticeable improvement in every respect...while still comfortably qualifying as absolute rubbish.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Drama (2026) Tim Robey The Drama promises bombshell revelations and the wedding from hell, but serves up a cramped, feel-bad, unromantic comedy with characters we don’t care about.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) Patrick Gibbs A likeable little comedy.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) Tim Robey While rarely inspired, the film is resolutely harmless – an amiable confection for families, updated to our age of digital overload with a message about setting devices down and getting back to nature.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Tim Robey Ready or Not 2 has way fewer laughs than its fun predecessor, zero scares, no surprises, the same old gore, and characters who aren’t even enjoyably loathsome.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Tim Robey The half-ideas at play here suggest a Yorgos Lanthimos twist on A Clockwork Orange, but that pitch could very easily have malfunctioned in exactly the ways this film does.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Keith Nurse An often hilarious film, one which brims over with black humour.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Eric Shorter The film has a literate, journalistic background which carries conviction, and it sends you out of the cinema with a genuine shiver.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Southern Comfort (2001) Simon Horsford This poignant tale comes across as one that needs to be understood...
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Ed Power It is truly grim stuff, but it is never clear whether Theroux’s detached style is the right way of approaching the horrors of the manosphere. The documentary needs more anger and surely more female input.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Robbie Collin Writer-director John Patton Ford...delivers a film that doesn’t so much strike the wrong tone as struggle to strike any tone at all. It isn’t especially funny, and I’m not even sure that it’s meant to be.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Benji Wilson I don’t know how shocking Inside the Manosphere will be to people who are already inside it, but I was gobsmacked and appalled by the extent to which this regressive spiral has been packaged and sold via...tech platforms that should know better.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Hugo Davenport As a cartoon parable of obsolescence, human and mechanical, RoboCop 2 works splendidly, and Irvin Kershner's direction ensures that the film is far from a Roboplod.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Robbie Collin Does it have many original ideas of its own? Perhaps not. But its greatest hits mixtape of other people’s has been compiled with such flair that it’s hard not to be swept up regardless.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hoppers (2026) Robbie Collin Yet Hoppers has the upper hand in a few key respects: it’s breezily funny, commendably fleet and appealingly modest in scale.
Posted Mar 08, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Victoria Mather The pace is fast and exciting and "Robocop" is undeniably entertaining.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Chris Bennion It has verve and swagger and real love for the time and the place. But this is Tommy Shelby and the Peaky Blinders playing their greatest hits on what feels a little like a farewell tour. Those peaks just aren’t as razor-sharp as they used to be.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Tim Robey So much talent has been wasted here (including a stiff Penélope Cruz as “lady detective” Myrna Mallow). And while provocations abound – Frank and the Bride have kinky sex between killing sprees – there’s a shallowness at the film’s core.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Patrick Gibbs Alas, Hollywood has done its best to turn what was a delightfully eccentric character-study into a conventional live story.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Scream 7 (2026) Tim Robey If you’re only after routine jump scares and dangling intestines, be my guest. But I’d take a hiatus of 100 years before Scream 8.
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) James Delingpole Don't let any of my reservations put you off seeing the film. It's everything a big movie romance should be: funny, heartwarming, pretty to look at and stylishly executed.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist (2026) Anita Singh Feature-length documentary Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist...doesn’t quibble with the portrayal of Palmer as a villain. But it is also an intelligent, nuanced take on why the story is more complex than it first appeared.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
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