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4/5
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Peter Bradshaw Bronstein is brilliant at conveying mounting panic and a terrible, all-consuming sadness.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Blood Countess (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Queen at Sea (2026) Peter Bradshaw Queen at Sea is a film with a tragic, wintry candour.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Wasteman (2025) Peter Bradshaw Some of the tropes are familiar, but this film sidesteps the cliches with the committed acting and fierce storytelling punch.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Scare Out (2026) Leslie Felperin Scare Out doesn’t have the psychological depth of the first, immaculate Infernal Affairs film, but Zhu is tremendously watchable as a spymaster with secrets of his own/
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Redux Redux (2025) Phil Hoad If it’s not quite devious enough overall, Redux Redux still opens up a punchy murder-revenge side alley for the genre.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Night King (2026) Phil Hoad The film juggles a number of plotlines without satisfactorily closing any.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
My Sister's Bones (2026) Cath Clarke The movie is stubbornly unintriguing despite a fine cast of actors doing their utmost. Even the almighty twist ending fails to pick up the pace.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Dear Beautiful Beloved (2024) Cath Clarke It’s a painful film, haunted by death, but also tender and moving, with a powerful message that compassion, love and resilience can be acts of defiance.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Bare Skin (2025) Leslie Felperin Montes and his crew pull off some well-timed scares thanks to sharp editing skills and atmospheric lighting but he would definitely benefit from learning a bit more about how to get the best from actors.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Lupin the IIIrd: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline (2025) Phuong Le The meticulous character designs for Muom and his minions are marvellously grotesque, and the combat scenes are thrilling to behold. But the plot feels painfully thin.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Collective Monologue (2024) Phuong Le Jessica Sarah Rinland’s sensuous documentary poetically foregrounds the physical and emotional contact that occurs between animals and their carers, even within these spaces of surveillance.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Gangsterism (2025) Phil Hoad It’s dense stuff, and staged at an ironic, if not quite playful, remove.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Nightborn (2026) Peter Bradshaw Some amusing moments, but a disappointment after the excellent Hatching.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Benjamin Lee An experience akin to watching someone try to light a match when the entire box is wet.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Animol (2026) Peter Bradshaw This is a flawed film, certainly, but with empathy, and strong performances.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Rosebush Pruning (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
At the Sea (2026) Peter Bradshaw Here is a quite unbearable curation of first-world problems.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rose (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Chocolat (2000) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Good Men (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Sunny Dancer (2026) Peter Bradshaw Despite or even because of its generic debts, the film has buoyancy and sunshine.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
A Prayer for the Dying (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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...
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Benjamin Lee Even if much of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is in need of a rethink, it’s hard not to enjoy the scrappy, animated brainstorm taking place in front of us. The mess of it all is at least a very human one.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) Peter Bradshaw A very sad story [told] with sympathy and urgency.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) Leslie Felperin It never provokes full-on out loud laughs, but there are wry chuckles to be had and the ferocity of the execution is pretty fun.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The President's Cake (2025) Peter Bradshaw There’s a terrific charm and sweetness in this debut from Iraqi film-maker Hasan Hadi.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh (2025) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Crime 101 (2026) Peter Bradshaw A highly watchable spectacle, leaving a sizzling streak of rubber on the tarmac.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Marbles (2025) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) Guardian Staff "Stranger on the Third Floor" is another example of the unpretentious pot-boiler achieving the dignity and design of an epic.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Whistle (2025) Mike McCahill Enough for Friday or Saturday night enjoyment, certainly.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Swedish Connection (2026) Cath Clarke Pleasant enough but sometimes jarring with the seriousness of what is at stake.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Eli Roth Presents: Jimmy and Stiggs (2024) Leslie Felperin Viewers are advised to bring painkillers to this, and possibly a good book to read during the dull interstitial bits.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Stitch Head (2025) Mike McCahill Stitch Head feels like a tentative first step into a heavily crowded field, sutured together from ideas and images previously encountered in far more confident and accomplished entertainments.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
What We Hide (2025) Phil Hoad The girls’ sisterly rapport is undeniably touching, but film is a bit too facile to dig deep into the American soul.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Larry (they/them) (2024) Phuong Le They may differ in terms of the medium, but both the film and Philomène’s work show an impressive capacity to transform the mundane into the profound.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
GOAT (2026) Cath Clarke Curry is a producer here, and has a performing role. But in spite of this connection, Goat lacks heart and soul, and a sense of genuine emotions.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026) Mike McCahill The 2008 original will probably endure as a solid, sleepover-ready example of American ordeal cinema, but this final chapter, like its immediate predecessors, falls somewhere between footnote and outright detritus.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Queen of Chess (2026) Sarah Dempster There is... the persistent sense that there’s more to Polgár’s story; that if only Emmy-winning director Rory Kennedy had been steadier with her magnifying glass the results might not feel so emotionally underdeveloped.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Erin Brockovich (2000) Peter Bradshaw It is a laudable tale, but it often seems as though it's on autopilot.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hamlet (2025) Peter Bradshaw There's a rigorous chill to this Hamlet.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
A Face in the Crowd (1957) Guardian Staff Technically parts of it are as exciting as anything Kazan had done, and if the satire is sometimes too loud and angry to be coherent, at least it makes a stimulating change.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Investigation of Lucy Letby (2026) Lucy Mangan The Investigation of Lucy Letby does not compare in its attention to detail, preferring a broader-brush, more emotive telling of the story.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Sham (2025) Peter Bradshaw In the end, this film does not sit on the fence; there is no Rashomon-style mystery about where the truth lies. Yet Miike’s own creative energies are galvanised.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
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