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Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 4/5 EDIT “You may find yourself wondering why we are going over this ground again, but it's an engaging film, and there is always something mesmeric in McCartney's face: cherubic, and yet sharp and watchful.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Bronstein is brilliant at conveying mounting panic and a terrible, all-consuming sadness.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The Blood Countess (2026) 3/5 EDIT “A succession of bizarre episodes, often engagingly bizarre, sometimes heavy-handed, although it is notable that the script is partly credited to Austria’s Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek who is not known for humour of any sort.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Queen at Sea (2026) 91% 5/5 EDIT “Queen at Sea is a film with a tragic, wintry candour.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Wasteman (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Some of the tropes are familiar, but this film sidesteps the cliches with the committed acting and fierce storytelling punch.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Nightborn (2026) 70% 2/5 EDIT “Some amusing moments, but a disappointment after the excellent Hatching.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Animol (2026) 3/5 EDIT “This is a flawed film, certainly, but with empathy, and strong performances.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rosebush Pruning (2026) 35% 2/5 EDIT “I have to admit to finding it heavy-handed and clumsy more often than not, although there are some good performances, notably from Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review At the Sea (2026) 38% 1/5 EDIT “Here is a quite unbearable curation of first-world problems.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rose (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “This is a film about the power and violence that occupies an invisible stratum below the bürgerlich calm, a stratum which becomes obvious when it is challenged. It’s another outstanding star performance from Hüller.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Chocolat (2000) 64% 2/5 EDIT “The sheer, unmitigated ickiness of the film is what gets you down in the end. That and the supercilious association of chocolate with sex. It's got all the taste and style of "erotic" chocolate body-paint kits on sale at British Home Stores.” – Guardian Feb 17, 2026 Full Review No Good Men (2026) 4/5 EDIT “This is a contemporary romance and the kind of film that tells you things about Afghanistan that aren’t covered in our own nightly news.” – Guardian Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Sunny Dancer (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Despite or even because of its generic debts, the film has buoyancy and sunshine.” – Guardian Feb 14, 2026 Full Review A Prayer for the Dying (2026) 2/5 EDIT “Its visual gestures and set pieces, although striking and often shocking, felt for me disconnected from any emotional truth – a truth that sustained, developed storytelling may have provided.” – Guardian Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “This elusive, ruminative and very absorbing movie presents its successive scenes like a sequence of unresolved chords carrying the listener on a journey without a destination...” – Guardian Feb 14, 2026 Full Review It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “A very sad story [told] with sympathy and urgency.” – Guardian Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “There’s a terrific charm and sweetness in this debut from Iraqi film-maker Hasan Hadi.” – Guardian Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “This tender and sweet animation from film-makers Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han is an involving, poignant study of early childhood; how fragile it is, and how strong you feel yourself to be to have outlived or surpassed it. ” – Guardian Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh (2025) 3/5 EDIT “I would have liked to hear more from Welsh about the cities he loves and about other authors and music he loves -- and more from other authors about how he influenced them. But it’s always a pleasure to hear from this uniquely funny and articulate writer.” – Guardian Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 87% 4/5 EDIT “A highly watchable spectacle, leaving a sizzling streak of rubber on the tarmac.” – Guardian Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Ang Lee's achievement is to reconnect the genre with its innate, latent sense of decorum and romance, qualities which have been ignored, or treated ironically or unintelligently.” – Guardian Feb 11, 2026 Full Review The Marbles (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Wilkinson entertainingly recounts Elgin’s arrogance and also puts before us the new context of museum restitution where institutions are restoring contested items, especially in Scotland, which leads the way in this movement. ” – Guardian Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 60% 2/5 EDIT “For Fennell, it looks like a luxurious pose of unserious abandon. It’s quasi-erotic, pseudo-romantic and then ersatz-sad, a club night of mock emotion.” – Guardian Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Erin Brockovich (2000) 87% EDIT “It is a laudable tale, but it often seems as though it's on autopilot. ” – Guardian Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Hamlet (2025) 82% 4/5 EDIT “There's a rigorous chill to this Hamlet.” – Guardian Feb 5, 2026 Full Review
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