Body Heat Review (Criterion Collection)
With the country currently in the grip of an extreme heatwave, Criterion’s UK release of Body Heat could not be...
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Backrooms Review
Produced by A24 Films and directed by 20-year-old internet horror prodigy Kane Parsons, Backrooms adapts the viral Backrooms creepypasta, which Parsons first turned...
Mariage Au Gout D’Orange Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
Adèle Exarchopoulos leads the way in Christophe Honoré’s semi-autobiographical chamber play about a wedding day in the late seventies, a...
Propeller One-Way Night Coach Review (Apple TV)
John Travolta’s latest directorial effort is clearly a deeply personal passion project. Based on a children’s book he himself wrote,...
Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
There aren't many directors who would garner applause just for the appearance of their name at the start of a...
The Unknown (L’Inconnue) Review (Cannes Film Festival 2026)
What if Freaky Friday, but for adults, and considerably more unsettling? That's roughly the pitch of The Unknown, adapted from...
Soudain (All of a Sudden) Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
A film with a three-hour and sixteen-minute runtime is a significant ask of any audience. Albeit, a lot of mainstream...
Fjord Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan exude pious stoicism in Cristian Mungiu’s highly anticipated (and now Palme D'Or winner) Fjord, a...
Spider-Noir Review (Prime Video)
I wasn’t entirely sure what to think when Spider-Noir was first announced. A live-action Marvel (ish, it’s made by MGM+)...
Minotaur Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
It's been nine years since Andrei Zvyagintsev's last film, Loveless. In that time, he's been sorely missed from the cinemasphere,...
Tuner Review
It’s a long way from the world of documentaries but, after nabbing an Oscar for Navalny (2023), director Daniel Roher...
Dear England Review (BBC)
Dear England, the latest BBC adaptation of James Graham's play asks us to reevaluate our relationship with the England Men’s...
Ladies First Review
Netflix’s most recent release Ladies First sees Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen reverse gender norms in this comical and...
Finding Emily Review
Set in a mid-80s Manchester (culturally-rich and unmistakably British), Finding Emily follows love-sick sound engineer Owen as he attempts to...