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The Salesman at Ten: A Look Back
The Salesman (2016) at ten: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
Ross McLaren
Rating: 3.5★
Barbie (2023)
I can't believe I'm about to say this, but here we go: I genuinely like Barbie. I, a 37-year-old man, sat down, watched it, and came out the other side having had a proper good time. I even quite like Ken, which is a
Rating: 3.5★
Z (1969)
Roger Ebert called Z his favourite film of 1969. It made history as the first film ever nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. It sits near the top of Letterboxd's all-time charts and is routinely name-checked whenever anyone
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New in UK Cinemas: July 2026
Here is what is worth keeping an eye on at the cinema across the UK in July 2026. I have stuck to the releases most people will actually have on their radar, the bigger titles and the ones building a real head of steam, rather than listing every last thing
Rating: 3.0★
Frankenstein (2025)
There's a version of this film that would've been one of the best horror pictures in years. Guillermo del Toro taking on Frankenstein, with a cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz, Lars Mikkelsen and Mia Goth, shot through with his trademark gothic grandeur? On paper,
Rating: 3.0★
We, Students! (2022)
There's a moment watching We, Students! where you genuinely feel the weight of ambition pressing down on three young men who deserve so much better than what the world is handing them. Georges, Moïse, and Ernest are economics students in Bangui, full of grand plans for their country,
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1001 Frames (2025)
There is a strain of Iranian cinema that loves to point the camera at itself, to sit an actor in a chair, ask them to perform, and watch the truth leak out around the edges of the fiction. Mehrnoush Alia's debut feature 1001 Frames belongs firmly to that
Rating: 3.5★
The Harder They Fall (2021)
Right out of the gate, Jeymes Samuel's Western announces itself as something genuinely different, and I was hooked before the opening titles had finished. The premise alone is enough to sit up and pay attention: an all-Black outlaw gang riding through the Old West, chasing revenge and
Rating: 2.5★
The Pod Generation (2023)
There's a particular kind of frustration that comes from watching a film fumble a genuinely great idea, and The Pod Generation had me feeling that frustration almost from the first frame. The premise is properly interesting: in the near future, couples can carry their baby in a detachable
Rating: 2.0★
Village at the End of the World (2012)
There's a genuinely compelling story buried somewhere inside Village at the End of the World. A tiny settlement of roughly 59 people clinging to existence in the very north of Greenland, their population dwindling, their way of life under very real threat of extinction. That's the
Rating: 2.5★
Bright (2017)
Will Smith is one of the most frustrating actors working today, and I mean that in the most conflicted way possible. The man is either absolutely brilliant or completely terrible, with very little middle ground in between. I've felt that watching Hancock, I've felt it watching
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Dead Dogs Don't Bite (2026)
Nuri Cihan Özdoğan's debut feature Dead Dogs Don't Bite takes its premise more or less straight from the headlines. After China stopped accepting the world's plastic waste in 2018, Turkey became one of the biggest destinations for Europe's discarded rubbish, and the