Rating: 2.5★
The marketing for I Saw the TV Glow is doing nobody any favours. I came in braced for horror, primed for dread, and found something else entirely: a slow, melancholy, dreamlike film about identity and dissociation that uses the language of late-night television and adolescent longing to ask some
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment early in A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough that stops you cold. The archive footage of a young Attenborough, sitting amongst mountain gorillas in the Rwandan Virungas in the 1970s, a juvenile called Pablo clambering over him with the casual confidence of someone who
Rating: 2.5★
Let me brace for the pitchforks. The Passion of Joan of Arc routinely turns up near the very summit of the "greatest films ever made" lists, spoken of in hushed, reverent tones, and having finally sat down with it I find myself genuinely baffled by the fervour. This
Rating: 2.5★
There is a particular kind of frustration that has nothing to do with a film being bad, and everything to do with realising, somewhere around the halfway point, that you have walked into the middle of someone else's conversation. That is more or less where I found myself
Rating: 2.5★
A cast this stacked has no business being this forgettable. That is the thought I kept returning to throughout James Ashcroft's The Whisper Man, adapted from Alex North's novel, which somehow assembles Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, Michelle Monaghan, Owen Teague and Adam Scott, and then
Rating: 2.5★
Coney Island drew me in. It's the iconic, salt-bleached backdrop of The Warriors, one of my absolute favourite films, and the moment I clocked that Haley Elizabeth Anderson's 2024 indie drama was set along that famous stretch of boardwalk, I was in. Location can do
Rating: 2.5★
There are films that challenge you, and then there are films that challenge you before a single frame has properly landed. The Tribe opens its account immediately: no dialogue, no subtitles, no music, no voiceover. Just people, gesturing, and you, squinting, trying to keep up. Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's Ukrainian
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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: 2.5★
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: 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
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: 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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