The Friend (2024)
84%
“Even if you’re not into the ‘non-action’ genre, the film’s worth it for the dog. There is a dog by the way, did I say?” –
The Spectator
Apr 24, 2025
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Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story (2024)
100%
“You could say it’s impossible to make a poor documentary about the writer Edna O’Brien as she’s never said or done anything uninteresting in her life. Point a camera and we’re away. But Sinead O’Shea’s Blue Road... is especially rewarding.” –
The Spectator
Apr 17, 2025
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The Return (2024)
78%
“Fiennes and Binoche are, of course, spellbinding. I could look at their faces all day. But the narrative is so parched and meditative it’s ultimately enervating and seems as depressed as the hero himself. ” –
The Spectator
Apr 10, 2025
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Mr. Burton (2025)
83%
“The film is too devoted and sedate to fly as a cinematic event. It has the feel of a Sunday evening television drama. Nothing wrong with that -- although you could just stay home on a Sunday evening and watch television if that’s what you’re after. ” –
The Spectator
Apr 3, 2025
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The End (2024)
56%
“Just as you’re expecting a confrontation or events to escalate -- just as you are expecting drama -- it all fizzles to nothing. Scenarios bubble up, then disappear.” –
The Spectator
Mar 27, 2025
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Disney's Snow White (2025)
40%
“The production values are high and all the enchanted animals are cute, but where are the jokes? And where is the personality?” –
The Spectator
Mar 20, 2025
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Mickey 17 (2025)
77%
“It eventually descends into a cartoonish, sub-Armando Iannucci comic caper with, as far as I could ascertain, nothing fresh to say. It’s not the biggest disappointment I’ve had in my life but it’s up there.” –
The Spectator
Mar 6, 2025
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The Last Showgirl (2024)
83%
“We’re never allowed to sit with any of the characters, which makes them feel underexplored. Elegiac as it is, the film doesn’t offer deep insights. Anderson, however, is transfixing. ” –
The Spectator
Feb 27, 2025
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
88%
“It may not have the sardonic bite of the first film, and it sometimes slips into sentimentality, but it sharply marries the contemporary with the age-old and I enjoyed it.” –
The Spectator
Feb 13, 2025
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
97%
“It is brave cinema, and daring cinema, as well as great cinema. ” –
The Spectator
Feb 6, 2025
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Hard Truths (2024)
95%
“Jean-Baptiste is magnificent, and the film is compelling, and it will linger in the mind, but it is also 90 minutes of watching someone being aggressively unhappy without properly knowing why. This Pansy certainly brought out my inner Pansy. ” –
The Spectator
Jan 30, 2025
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
“This is a film of ambition and swagger and Brody’s performance, suffused with pain and longing, is terrific. However, there are some odd decisions. ” –
The Spectator
Jan 23, 2025
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
82%
“It’s captivating, even if you could argue that it’s dramatically underpowered. The events building up to Newport are listless in nature, but it has a seductive, meditative, cumulative power. I wasn’t bored for a single second.” –
The Spectator
Jan 16, 2025
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Maria (2024)
75%
“It’s hard to fathom what Larrain, and screenwriter Steven Knight, want to say about her. Or how we are meant to feel... The film never gets to the truth of her, or her art, which is why the singing doesn’t feel true, either.” –
The Spectator
Jan 9, 2025
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We Live in Time (2024)
79%
“Though I am a crier by nature, my tears were not jerked. I checked -- and double-checked: eyes dry as anything. I couldn’t get beyond the phoniness. You might do better.” –
The Spectator
Jan 2, 2025
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Queer (2024)
77%
“It’s Craig’s powerful performance that makes it. Much is asked of him and he delivers. In lesser hands, Lee would definitely be repellent, but Craig deploys his ravaged charisma to imbue him with such pain and longing and woundedness that we feel for him.” –
The Spectator
Dec 12, 2024
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Nightbitch (2024)
59%
“Adams is wonderfully watchable throughout and I wasn’t ever bored and I’m going to stick my neck out and say: it may be the best film about a woman turning into a dog that you’ll see this year.” –
The Spectator
Dec 5, 2024
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Conclave (2024)
93%
“Conclave is a papal thriller based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris and it stars a magnificent Ralph Fiennes. If he doesn’t win an Oscar I’ll eat my hat and also yours. Luckily, the film is also well written, smart, taut and visually stunning. ” –
The Spectator
Dec 3, 2024
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Anora (2024)
93%
“I know you won’t believe it’s as good as everyone is saying it is until you hear it from me so here you are: yes, it’s as good as everyone is saying it is.” –
The Spectator
Nov 22, 2024
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Gladiator II (2024)
70%
“Compared to the original it is plainly, and disappointingly, not as goodus.” –
The Spectator
Nov 14, 2024
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Heretic (2024)
91%
“It’s enjoyable watching Grant have so much fun. All those years as a rom-com star when what he’s most good at, it turns out, is being thoroughly bad.” –
The Spectator
Oct 31, 2024
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
“What is there to care about? Why do these two women matter? Where is that knitwear from? Spoiler alert: no answers are forthcoming.” –
The Spectator
Oct 30, 2024
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The Apprentice (2024)
83%
“It’s an origin story, if you like, and I was gripped throughout. It’s brilliantly acted and conceived, and it takes its subject seriously. It’s not like an extended Saturday Night Live routine.” –
The Spectator
Oct 17, 2024
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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
31%
“It made me long for the Joker from my childhood. At least he was fun and had sneezing powder.” –
The Spectator
Oct 10, 2024
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A Different Man (2024)
93%
“The movie does keep you on your toes and does not unfold along lines that can be anticipated, which is a relief, as mostly you know where a film is going in the first ten minutes. So, no regrets. ” –
The Spectator
Oct 3, 2024
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