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Rating: 4.0★
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Electric Meat (2026)
I wanted to be won over by Electric Meat. Everything about it is designed to appeal to the part of me that loves cinema at its strangest: a wordless, black and white psychosexual thriller from the comic book artist Dan Schaffer, making his feature directing debut, premiering in the dead
Rating: 4.5★
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
I'll hold my hands up: I was dead wrong, and I'm not too proud to admit it. For years, I actively avoided The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It had acquired this rather tiresome reputation as a mandatory watch for "basic cinephiles," and, to
Rating: 2.0★
Queens of the Dead (2025)
I could not have gone into Queens of the Dead wanting to like it more. George A. Romero is one of my most-watched directors, full stop, and his Day of the Dead remains the only horror film I have ever handed a full five stars. So when I learned
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Over/Under (2026)
I will admit to coming at Over/Under from a particular angle. I have a twelve year old daughter, and Sophia Silver's coming of age drama captures so much of what I see in her life right now, the shifting friendships, the first brushes with puberty, the endless
Rating: 2.5★
Peter Rabbit (2018)
Taking Beatrix Potter's genteel little watercolours and turning them into a wisecracking, action-scored family romp was always going to be a gamble, and Will Gluck's Peter Rabbit lands somewhere in the awkward middle. Not a disaster, not a triumph. Just a very expensive, very polished
Rating: 3.0★
The Gruffalo's Child (2011)
The best children's stories tend to be complete things. They say what they have to say, and then they stop. That is what made the original The Gruffalo so satisfying when it landed on BBC One that Christmas a couple of years earlier: it was tight, funny, structurally
Rating: 3.5★
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Let's talk about the sheer, unadulterated audacity of what David Lean pulled off with this one. You look at those sweeping, snow-drenched landscapes and assume some magical winter wonderland was captured on celluloid, that the production company packed up and headed somewhere gloriously frozen for months on
Rating: 4.0★
mid90s (2018)
There's a very specific, visceral thump to the soundtrack of mid90s that hit me somewhere deep in the chest the moment it started. I was a skater kid growing up in the UK, and those tracks, that particular blend of hip hop and noise rock bleeding from a
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