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3/5
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Hoppers
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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There’s lots of fun here, some of the one-liners are exquisite and the helter-skelter finale is delightfully overstuffed. Frustratingly, it’s still second-grade Pixar.
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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Sense and Sensibility
(1995)
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Geoff Brown
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Jane Austen's novel about the Dashwood daughters and their winding paths to romantic fulfilment gets kid-glove treatment from director Ang Lee and his script-writer, Emma Thompson.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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4/5
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Cecil: The Lion and the Dentist
(2026)
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Ben Dowell
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The opening scenes, which charted the founding of the Hwange National Park where Cecil was shot, were mesmerising.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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4/5
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Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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In the end there are no revelations, just a warm and cosy restatement of cultural history.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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2/5
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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I can’t remember seeing a film that espoused ideas and beliefs with which I agreed wholeheartedly (social media is evil and we’re all going to die) while simultaneously boring me stupid.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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5/5
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The Secret Agent
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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For all its showmanship, exquisite period details and flashy Tarantino-style denouement, Filho’s film never loses its profound emotional ache, or the central idea — that the departing dictatorship left behind an entire population in a state of trauma.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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4/5
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Stolen Face
(1952)
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Kevin Maher
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Unlike Vertigo, where we empathise with James Stewart’s Scottie, Philip here is the stooge, weak and overlooked by the innately powerful Alice.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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4/5
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
(2025)
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Ed Potton
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The sound is as vivid as the visuals and Presley’s stagecraft radiates confidence, honed by a schedule that sometimes involved three shows a day.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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2/5
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The Moment
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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It’s a film directed and co-written by Aitchison’s regular pop video wunderkind Aidan Zamiri, who’s here made a feature-length promo with hit’n’miss jokes and a handful of two-dimensional ciphers.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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Becoming Victoria Wood
(2026)
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Carol Midgley
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It made me quite wistful watching this skilfully woven documentary.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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4/5
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Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The film is serious, sweet and yet boldly sui generis.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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4/5
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The President's Cake
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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It’s a testament to Nayyef’s ingenuous performance and the mesmerising sense of place that the film is always compelling and sometimes bleakly funny, although there are no happy endings.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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3/5
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Crime 101
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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It’s a prime example of the LA-set B-movie, a genre that also includes Guy Ritchie’s Wrath of Man and Gerard Butler’s Den of Thieves franchise. Crime 101 is far better than those efforts and in places is sublime.
Posted Feb 11, 2026
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2/5
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Wuthering Heights
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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With a chemistry-free central romance between the bizarrely uninteresting Heathcliff and Cathy, this film self-deflates.
Posted Feb 09, 2026
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3/5
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The Investigation of Lucy Letby
(2026)
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Ben Dowell
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This film had all the excellent footage (including police interviews) and the exclusive sit-downs you might want.
Posted Feb 07, 2026
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4/5
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The Muppet Show
(2026)
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Ben Dowell
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It’s definitely a return to basics, and all the more joyous for it.
Posted Feb 07, 2026
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1/5
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100 Nights of Hero
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The director Julia Jackman has created a tonal hodgepodge.
Posted Feb 07, 2026
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3/5
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Hamlet
(2025)
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Ed Potton
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Ahmed is a fine, understated Hamlet, especially in the earlier scenes, where he is intriguingly contained and (literally) haunted. He is less good at the emotional implosions demanded later on, but — as always — he is never less than watchable.
Posted Feb 07, 2026
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4/5
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My Father's Shadow
(2025)
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Ed Potton
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It’s a moving and nuanced turn from Dirisu, whom we are more used to seeing break bones than mend relationships.
Posted Feb 07, 2026
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4/5
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Send Help
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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It’s a lot of fun.
Posted Feb 07, 2026
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2/5
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Shelter
(2026)
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Ed Potton
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Statham fans may still love Shelter, and it makes for serviceable entertainment, but it’s just not, in the end, very interesting.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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4/5
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Carlton Browne of the F.O.
(1959)
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Kevin Maher
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There is far too much laboured slapstick but some of the gags are Python-sharp, especially a speech at the UN that’s composed entirely of mottos and aphorisms.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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1/5
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Primate
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The makers of the Hawaii-set gore fest Primate have seemingly surveyed the horror landscape and thought, “Hmm, you know what I really miss? Pretty girl torture!”
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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4/5
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We Bury the Dead
(2024)
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Kevin Maher
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Daisy Ridley produces a masterclass in minimalism in this slick Australian zombie movie.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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Arabesque
(1966)
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Times (UK) Staff
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The film looks first and foremost like an attempt to repeat the success of Mr. Donen's earlier comedy-thriller Charade by doing it all over again, a couple of times bigger and, hopefully, better.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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2/5
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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None of the marital clashes have any bite.
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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4/5
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Pose
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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There are a handful of longueurs in the movie, but mostly this is a director and a lead actor working together without restrictions.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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4/5
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H Is for Hawk
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Foy is exceptional throughout in a project that frequently requires her to share the frame with a beady-eyed, sharp-clawed killer and, crucially, to convey a combination of awestruck admiration and stultifying terror.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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4/5
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The Secret of Me
(2025)
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James Jackson
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There is so much to unpack from this film, not least the perspective it offered on the perennial debate of nature versus nurture.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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1/5
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Mercy
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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Pratt is fine, and blandly likeable in the manner of a not-especially-demanding labrador, but the prospect of his blameless heroism is always depressingly inevitable and the identity of the real villain is conspicuous from almost the first scene.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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The American President
(1995)
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Geoff Brown
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There is too much presidential pomp, too small a glimpse of the ordinary man within. Bening is charm personified as Sydney Wade; unfortunately, bright eyes, a winning smile, and a strong supporting cast can only take this soft, boring film so far.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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4/5
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The Rip
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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The ending gets a bit messy, with a large splodge of generic action. By then it hardly matters. The job is done. The perps are punished. The guns holstered. Hell yeah.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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1/5
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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Yes, it’s just awful. Fake, puke-inducing emotional dishonesty of the most absurd kind. Nothing here makes sense.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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2/5
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Bulk
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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This is just sloppy, repetitive and dull.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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4/5
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(2001)
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Kevin Maher
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The Fellowship of the Ring is extraordinary but the weakest in the JRR Tolkien trilogy.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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Bite the Bullet
(1975)
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David Robinson
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The scenery is great; the story pushes on; only it would be nice to know where the film-makers thought it was actually going.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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4/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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Fiennes’s commitment is so total that it occasionally feels as if The Bone Temple is a riveting and vivacious one-man West End show.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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2/5
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Becoming Victoria Wood
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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This one-note profile leans heavily into anodyne archive interviews and platitudinous guff from celebrity buddies.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(2002)
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James Christopher
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What we don’t get is close and consistent tension. Like most trilogies, The Lord of the Rings sags in the middle. Jackson’s middle episode is a vast schematic piece of action with large damp patches of wooden acting.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3/5
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Giant
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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It doesn’t all work. The boxing scenes are undercooked and the ending is rushed and ineffective. But there’s a gripping sadness here that lingers.
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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4/5
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Labyrinth
(1986)
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Kevin Maher
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The boisterous incidental characters, including talking door knockers and dungeon walls and double-headed guards, are an unruly delight.
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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3/5
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Kevin Maher
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With Bader and Blyth on quietly charismatic form throughout, [Brett Haley] made a film that is eminently slick, consistently palatable and instantly forgettable. The perfect Netflix product.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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5/5
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Blue Velvet
(1986)
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Kevin Maher
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The performances from Hopper and Rossellini are extraordinary.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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3/5
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The Scarecrows' Wedding
(2025)
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Carol Midgley
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It was charming, a little breath of fresh summer air.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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4/5
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The film executes an audacious, daft and hugely enjoyable volte-face that reorientates the players and sets our trio up for a Grand Guignol-style finale.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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5/5
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David Bowie: The Final Act
(2025)
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Ed Potton
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Like the man, this film isn’t sentimental but gosh, it packs a punch.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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4/5
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Kevin Maher
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The casting is ingenious.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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5/5
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His Girl Friday
(1940)
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Kevin Maher
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Grant’s performance, full of ad libs, is a suave delight.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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Death Race 2000
(1975)
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David Robinson
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Death Race 2000 was frankly aimed as a rip-off of Rollerball, but it has a number of advantages over the original. It never takes its pretensions or its future projections too seriously.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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2/5
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Accidental Tourist
(2025)
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Carol Midgley
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The surprise to me about this show — which has echoes of Karl Pilkington’s An Idiot Abroad but is less funny — was that it was better than I expected.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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