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Day of the Fight (2023) 85% 3/5 “It leans too heavily into ham-fisted cliché but Jack Huston’s debut gets by on a striking look and a clutch of strong performances led by an excellent Michael C. Pitt.” – Empire Magazine Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Heart Eyes (2025) 81% 4/5 “Heart Eyes is a like a Hinge date from hell. Smart, funny, intense; swipe right.” – Empire Magazine Feb 19, 2025 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% 4/5 “Understated performances and unflashy filmmaking coalesce into an absorbing mixture of the personal and the political. It may take its time but, given the circumstances of its making, this is an extraordinary achievement.” – Empire Magazine Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Flight Risk (2025) 30% 3/5 “It won’t win any awards for originality but Flight Risk is a fun, unpretentious, tight 91 minutes — especially if you’ve always jonesed to see Downton Abbey’s Lady Mary cream someone with a fire extinguisher.” – Empire Magazine Feb 4, 2025 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% 4/5 “It may be formally unadventurous but A Real Pain is a real treat, a tender, funny treatise on family jealousies and our relationship to the past. Simultaneously light and heavy, it soars on the stellar pairing of Eisenberg and Culkin.” – Empire Magazine Jan 16, 2025 Full Review Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) 85% 2/5 “The MVP of the first two films, Carrey dials down the physical comedy in both his roles, amping up punning (“Dorkupine!”) to hit-and-miss effect. For all the actor’s gurning and the film’s visual busyness, few images pop or lodge in the memory. ” – Empire Magazine Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Kraven the Hunter (2024) 15% 2/5 “This all feels a long way from Chandor’s glory days of Margin Call and All Is Lost. Save the occasional flourish, Kraven The Hunter is limp, tired, uninvolving superhero fare.” – Empire Magazine Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% “This is Steve McQueen’s most accessible film to date, without diluting any of his power. Mixing epic sweep with textured detail, despite an episodic second half it will make even the stiffest upper lip quiver.” – Empire Magazine Nov 6, 2024 Full Review Never Let Go (2024) 58% 3/5 “It’s certainly derivative -- cue Bird Box, A Quiet Place, The Babadook -- and has its dull bits, but it gets by on some imaginative licks and strong turns, particularly from a game Halle Berry.” – Time Out Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Blink Twice (2024) 75% 4/5 “It’s a film about the abuses of power, the dangers of being a woman in a man’s world and the importance of female solidarity, but is never didactic, just gripping. In short, Blink Twice is both brainfood and a blast. ” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Sky Peals (2023) 100% 3/5 “Sky Peals lacks compelling conflicts and narrative fireworks, but Hussain’s film is a mood. The director and his cinematographer, Nick Cooke, shooting on 35mm film, effectively find the otherworldly in the ordinary. ” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Monster (2003) 82% 4/5 “In other hands, this could have become overwrought melodrama, but Jenkins skillfully mines the humanity within the sensationalism to come up with something that is both tender and chilling - and ultimately heartbreaking.” – Radio Times Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Shall We Dance? (1996) 90% 4/5 “Funny and poignant, this is entertainment in it's kindest and swishiest form.” – Empire Magazine Aug 21, 2024 Full Review Kneecap (2024) 96% 4/5 “Having the mordant wit and tonal confidence to parlay The Troubles into a punchline, Kneecap has laughs, smarts and verve to spare. Get on board or, as the characters put it, fuck up.” – Empire Magazine Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Hundreds of Beavers (2022) 97% 4/5 “What gives Hundreds Of Beavers its special quality is the mixture of no-budget, seemingly haphazard gonzo energy and the well-tooled jokes that can only come from rigorous planning and effervescent ingenuity.” – Time Out Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Something in the Water (2024) 48% 2/5 “The female-first vibe is refreshing but Something In The Water is something old, nothing new, a lot that is borrowed and an eyeful of twinkly blue.” – Empire Magazine Jun 28, 2024 Full Review Seize Them! (2024) 58% 3/5 “It doesn’t reach the heights of Horrible Histories — let alone Monty Python And The Holy Grail — but Seize Them! turns the Dark Ages into the daft ages, delivering a mostly entertaining, female-centred comedy enlivened by winning performances.” – Empire Magazine Apr 9, 2024 Full Review Monster (2023) 96% 4/5 “Monster is Hirokazu Kore-eda channelling Christopher Nolan: twisty storytelling in the service of wise empathy.” – Empire Magazine Mar 13, 2024 Full Review The Color Purple (2023) 81% 4/5 “A sanitised version of Spielberg’s film, let alone Walker’s novel. But bravura musical sequences and a top-notch cast ensure smiles and tears come the end credits.” – Empire Magazine Jan 22, 2024 Full Review RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ (2023) 98% 4/5 “Achieves total Beyhem, a riot of colour, spectacle, inventive staging, stunning vocals and gorgeous grooves. As a self-portrait, it might not delve as deep as you’d like, but it offers a thrilling lesson in what it takes to be a pop icon.” – Empire Magazine Dec 5, 2023 Full Review Wonka (2023) 82% 4/5 “It may not scale the heights of his Paddington duo, but Paul King’s Wonka is a beguiling way to spend 116 minutes, perfectly anchored by Chalamet’s benevolent dandy.” – Empire Magazine Dec 5, 2023 Full Review One Life (2023) 90% 3/5 “A remarkable World War II story told conventionally but elevated by a superb Anthony Hopkins. ” – Time Out Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Maestro (2023) 78% 4/5 “Maestro never truly gets under its subject’s skin, but it’s mightily impressive, full of brilliant filmmaking, many memorable scenes and a superb Carey Mulligan walking away with the entire movie.” – Empire Magazine Nov 21, 2023 Full Review TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023) 99% 4/5 “You don’t have to be cray-cray for Tay-Tay to enjoy The Eras Tour. Taylor’s version of a concert flick might not reinvent the music movie wheel but, as a gift to the hardcore or a primer to her immense talent, it works a treat.” – Empire Magazine Oct 16, 2023 Full Review Expend4bles (2023) 14% 2/5 “A slight improvement on Expendables 3, Expend4bles still works better as character posters than a movie you have to actually sit through. To paraphrase the tag line, old blood meets new blood equals tired blood.” – Empire Magazine Sep 21, 2023 Full Review
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