Film Reviews & Criticism

Film reviews spanning new releases, independent cinema, international films, classics, and so much more.

Prepare for the Peasants’ Revolt

Get to know Andrew Garfield before his upcoming film Uprising (2026).

Film Review: After The Hunt

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Film Review: We Live In Time

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Latest Reviews

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Wicker (2026) Review: A Rom-Com Woven For The Female Gaze

Jen FOctober 12, 2026

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Digger (2026) Review: You Musn’t Be Afraid To Dig A Little Deeper, Darling

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Hope (2026): A Monster Movie That Refuses To Play By The Rules

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Heart of the Beast (2026) Review: A Survival Story With a Mythological Heart

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The Love Hypothesis (2026) Review: A Cute Adaptation With No Chemistry

Jen FSeptember 24, 2026

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The Love Hypothesis (2026) Review: A Cute Adaptation With No Chemistry

PhD student Olive Smith (Lili Reinhart) enters into a fake dating agreement with professor Dr Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman) in

Project Hail Mary (2026) Review: Big Science, Bigger Heart

Project Hail Mary is, at its core, a story about survival, as a scientist seeks to find the key to

Film Review: Ballad of a Small Player

Colin Farrell gives it his all in Edward Berger’s neon-soaked gamble that never quite pays off. When the debts start

Up Close and Personal With RaMell Ross’ Unrelenting Adaptation, ‘Nickel Boys’.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, RaMell Ross directs Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson

Horror

Film Review: The Long Walk

This dystopian thriller, adapted by Stephen King’s novel of the…

Mubi Monday: The Substance

When Elisabeth Sparkle ages out of the showbiz industry, she…

Film Review: Heretic

When two Mormon missionaries enter the house of a seemingly…

Film Review: IT Chapter Two

When you make an oath, you never know when It…

Romance

The Love Hypothesis (2026) Review: A Cute Adaptation With No Chemistry

PhD student Olive Smith (Lili Reinhart) enters into a fake dating agreement with professor Dr Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman) in

You, Me & Tuscany (2026) Review: The Feel-Good Romance of the Year?

While staying in a villa as an uninvited houseguest on a spontaneous trip to Tuscany, a woman must maintain the

Film Review: Pillion

pillion (noun): a seat for a passenger behind a motorcyclist. Harry Lighton’s striking debut Pillion pushes our expectations of the British

Film Review: We Live In Time

Focusing on a brief window in a couple’s relationship, We Live In Time is a romantic drama that combines the

Trilogy Reviews

Trilogy Review: The Santa Clause

When Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) decided to slip on that red suit one Christmas, he really should have read the

Trilogy Review: Wolverine

Forced team player within the X-Men movies but a lone wolf through and through – Logan is Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)…

Trilogy Review: Back To The Future

Eccentric inventor Doctor Emmet Brown, ‘Doc’ (Christopher Lloyd) has invented a time machine in the shape of a Delorian. With

Trilogy Review: James Bond (1995–2002)

Okay, you’ve caught me – this isn’t quite a trilogy but you’re here anyway so let’s just continue. The 6th

Finally Watched

Finally Watched: Days of Thunder (1990) – Men, Machines, and Feelings

Tom Cruise and the booked and busy Anne Hathaway recently announced there would be a sequel to the 1990 sports

Finally Watched: Y Tu Mamá También

Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También takes viewers on a journey through an unseen Mexican landscape, following two teenage friends

Finally Watched: Save The Last Dance (2001)

I genuinely thought that I had watched this movie before. In fact, I have it on DVD and it’s not

Finally Watched: Million Dollar Baby (2004)

I had vague recollections of the hype surrounding the movie when it originally came out, and so I pretty much

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