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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) 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) 86% 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 Sham (2025) 82% 3/5 EDIT “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.” – Guardian Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Ashes and Diamonds (1958) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Everywhere in this film is sadness and a kind of delirium.” – Guardian Feb 4, 2026 Full Review The Stunt Man (1980) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The black comedy and the raucousness are interleaved with weird, fierce stabs of extended seriousness and even anguish.” – Guardian Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “The film, though likable and spirited and nicely acted, isn’t completely convincing on its own terms. It is, after all, intended to be funny on its own account.” – Guardian Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir (2026) 2/5 EDIT “All these issues, all the allyship and advocacy, look like yet more brand accessories.” – Guardian Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Rabbit Trap (2025) 47% 3/5 EDIT “Rabbit Trap is impressively controlled and composed, although there is something a little heartsinking in which the clear contours of storytelling finally soften into the indistinct fuzz of mood and vibe. ” – Guardian Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Strongroom (1962) 5/5 EDIT “The movie delivers a couple of big shocks, with the biggest saved for just before the closing credits, and everything is briskly wrapped up inside 80 minutes. ” – Guardian Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Silence and Cry (1967) 4/5 EDIT “An impenetrable psychological trauma with weird erotic overtones, like an absurdist bad dream transcribed by Kafka.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 2/5 EDIT “It’s a time-honoured and perfectly enjoyable setup, and the first act, when the new reality dawns on clueless Bradley, is watchable. But the plot twists are derivative and the action then becomes dependent on weird stabs of grisliness.” – Guardian Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Saipan (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a story which is capably, straightforwardly told by film-makers Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa, and well acted by its leads Éanna Hardwicke as Keane and Steve Coogan as McCarthy.” – Guardian Jan 21, 2026 Full Review
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