Rating: 4.0★
There is a moment early in Gran Torino where Clint Eastwood, snarling on his porch over the barrel of a rifle, looks less like a man than a monument. Some forty years on from the squint and the poncho of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, still the finest
Rating: 3.5★
There's a scene early in Top of the Heap that sets out exactly what kind of film you're in for. George Lattimer, a Black police officer in early-seventies America, is caught between two worlds and welcome in neither. His colleagues on the force make his
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of Idiocracy that works brilliantly. A savage, formally rigorous takedown of anti-intellectualism, commercialisation and the slow rot of public life. The bones of that film are here. Mike Judge clearly has something to say, and in the years since its release, a lot of
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Here is what is worth keeping an eye on at the cinema across the UK in September 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: 3.5★
There's a moment about halfway through Sonic the Hedgehog 3 when my son got up, wandered out of the room, and didn't come back for a while. He's the target audience. He loves these films. And when a Sonic movie loses the child in
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Every so often a short film comes along and quietly shames the features. Something Pointless runs a mere fourteen minutes, and in that time it takes on illness, mortality and childhood bullying, and lands an emotional punch that plenty of two hour dramas spend their whole runtime reaching for and
Rating: 3.5★
For years "video game movie" was basically a warning label, shorthand for something cynical and half-watchable. You knew what you were getting: a production that understood the intellectual property well enough to put the right colours on screen, but had no real feel for why anyone loved
Rating: 3.0★
Let's get the heresy out of the way immediately: I have never quite understood the rabid, unquestioning devotion to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise. While the world collectively worships at the altar of cabin-in-the-woods terror, I've found myself consistently underwhelmed by
Rating: 3.5★
My son has watched plenty of things once and forgotten them by teatime. The Highway Rat was not one of them. He came out of it obsessed, quoting the thing for weeks afterward, and honestly that's about the highest praise a half-hour film for small children can
Rating: 2.5★
There's a particular kind of frustration that only a technically brilliant film can produce. If something is rubbish from top to bottom, you just shrug and move on. But when a film has every conceivable ingredient at its disposal and still manages to leave you completely cold, that&
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment early in Paranoid Park where the camera just lingers on a skate bowl, the concrete curves catching light in a way that feels almost underwater, and you think: right, this is going to be something special. Gus Van Sant has a gift for that kind
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment in Scary Movie 2 where you can almost feel the production running out of ideas in real time. The jokes don't build, they just pile up, louder and cruder and more desperate with each passing minute, as if sheer volume might convince you
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