Rating: 2.0★
There is something almost reassuringly old-fashioned about the premise of Fist Fight. Two teachers, one provocation, one parking lot, four o'clock. It is the kind of high-concept setup that could have been scrawled on a napkin in a writers' room circa 1985, and in many
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Marking Mark Hamill at 75: a look back across Mark's career through the films I've reviewed.
Rating: 3.5★
On 25 February 1964, Cassius Clay, a 22-year-old challenger given little chance by almost anyone, knocked out Sonny Liston in Miami Beach to become heavyweight champion of the world. What happened later that night, away from the cameras and the crowd, is the premise of One Night in
Rating: 2.5★
In the spring of 1992, the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers in the beating of Rodney King set off five days of uprising across the city that left more than fifty people dead and caused over a billion dollars in damage. It remains one of the most
Rating: 3.5★
Brian De Palma arrived at Dressed to Kill in 1980 already well-established as Hollywood's most devoted, and most forensically skilled, student of Alfred Hitchcock. He had spent the previous decade developing a body of work that wore its Hitchcock influences openly, from the split-screen paranoia of
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Here is what is worth keeping an eye on at the cinema across the UK in October 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: 4.0★
Sean Baker has spent the better part of two decades making films about people living at the edges of the American dream, and Anora is, in many respects, the moment that world broke through to the mainstream. Shot on location across Brooklyn and New York City, the film follows Anora,
Rating: 2.5★
The Aran Islands sit off the west coast of County Galway, three limestone outcrops where the Atlantic has the run of things and the soil, such as it is, has to be coaxed from seaweed and sand. By the early twentieth century they had acquired a particular romantic charge in
Rating: 3.5★
There is a moment, maybe twenty minutes into Tangerine, where it dawns on you that you are watching something genuinely alive. Not polished, not composed for maximum effect, but actually alive, with all the noise and heat and mess that implies. And then you remember it was shot on a
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There is a lot to admire in Laundreams, and my only real complaint is that there isn't more of it. Amber Gadd and Evie Ward-Drummond's debut short, set almost entirely inside a working Sheffield laundrette, is a warm, nicely made little thing with a real
Rating: 1.5★
I went into Pontypool primed to love it. The cult reputation had been ringing in my ears for a while, that whispered promise of a clever, low-budget sleeper that does something genuinely different with the horror genre. And the premise, I'll admit, is still one I cannot
Rating: 2.5★
For just over seventy minutes, a calm, unhurried voice recites the tangled affairs of Germany's post-war industrial dynasties: the bankruptcies, the frauds, the convenient deaths, the dynastic feuds. Over the top of it runs a stream of images that, as far as I could ever tell, has
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