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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
3/5
Frontier Crucible (2025) Catherine Bray The model here should perhaps have been the Ranown Cycle: inexpensive but beautiful and brisk character-driven westerns none of which are longer than 80 minutes. Still, Frontier Crucible does look lovely.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Shepherd and the Bear (2024) Cath Clarke Whichever side of the argument you instinctively find yourself on -- team bear or team shepherd -- the film resists snap judgments.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Ashes and Diamonds (1958) Peter Bradshaw Everywhere in this film is sadness and a kind of delirium.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Stunt Man (1980) Peter Bradshaw The black comedy and the raucousness are interleaved with weird, fierce stabs of extended seriousness and even anguish.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
André Is an Idiot (2025) Leslie Felperin There’s nothing radical or groundbreaking about either that message or the film-making on show here, but Ricciardi and Janice’s honesty and indeed that of all those around him, prove to be very moving in the long run.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
V/H/S Halloween (2025) Catherine Bray This horror bonanza, the eighth instalment in the V/H/S anthology series, is a mixed bag, with some very high highs and regrettably poor lows.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Relationship Goals (2026) Andrew Lawrence If you can turn a blind eye to that message and focus on the familiar funny faces instead, the tractor-beam ride to the credits is heavenly enough.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Days of Heaven (1978) Tim Radford Go and see it, but for the meteorology of the prairies, the plague of locusts, the group of Norman Rockwell figures at harvest time.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Muppet Show (2026) Lucy Mangan If nothing else, it will entertain children for half an hour and give them the not inconsiderable gift of being introduced to Miss Piggy.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Ace in the Hole (1951) Philip Hope-Wallace The scenes of the gathering of the vultures are magnificently put on the screen -- visual comment of the strongest kind. The heart and soul of the journalist is not. But it is an enthralling two hours.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Arabesque (1966) Ian Wright The trouble with "Arabesque" is that Donen tries too hard. He has a bright enough screenplay...but for all his effort he manages to add little that is sufficiently original.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Iron Lung (2026) Mike McCahill Fischbach holds steady before the camera; more money and bigger sets will doubtless come his way. But he can’t pull off the dramatic heavy lifting required to convert a short film’s worth of plot into a watchable feature.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Shelter (2026) Leslie Felperin Shelter, formulaically directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Greenland) working from a script by Ward Parry (The Shattering), feels populated by indestructible plastic tropes that have cracked and faded after years of scorching sun exposure.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Seized (2026) Adrian Horton Fascinating vox pop surveys aside, Seized offers the most thorough explanation yet of what led to the raid, which is equal parts sinister and amusingly petty.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Melania (2026) Xan Brooks The fun’s not infectious and the guests are a nightmare, and two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Back to the Past (2025) Phil Hoad There are some passable sequences, such as a cart-borne escape down a hillside tea plantation. But the fight choreography is rote gun-fu -- surprisingly, as it's overseen by old master Sammo Hung -- and often chopped into restrictive closeups.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
undertone (2025) Benjamin Lee It’s not that total originality is expected at this particular moment, but given the genre’s overcrowd, it’s hard to see what pushes Undertone above the noise.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Peter Bradshaw 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.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Chasing Summer (2026) Adrian Horton One of the most bizarre combinations of director and material I’ve ever seen, more curious car crash than collaboration.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Josephine (2026) Adrian Horton There’s a chilling but thankfully restrained horror to Josephine’s inward retreat, as her inchoate anger boils over in increasingly erratic, alarming ways. It’s a feat not possible without Reeves -- a rare natural.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
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