The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
96%
3/5
“Without the need for grue and splurge, amid the galumphing and toppling, we witness the impossibility, and general undesirability, of transforming flesh and blood into weightless, ethereal fantasy.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 25, 2025
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Sister Midnight (2024)
96%
4/5
“There’s repetitiveness in Kandhari’s film, to be sure, and not all his gags work, but there’s also madness with a purpose in this bitingly facetious offering. ” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 13, 2025
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To a Land Unknown (2024)
97%
4/5
“...an instantly engrossing piece of storytelling done to stylish standards.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 14, 2025
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
“The brilliant Brody gives us an utterly immersive László, a contrarian buried within himself, torn in half by living backwards and forwards in history, and as miserable throughout as a leftover dog biscuit. ” –
The Arts Desk
Jan 24, 2025
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Sujo (2024)
93%
3/5
“The film’s echoing feel comes with a ruminative pace, along with curt dialogue and often plain performances... Sujo’s watchfulness cuts against our expected pessimistic thrills.” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 16, 2024
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
48%
2/5
“For those fed up with the cyber look of Pixar, there’s not the crafted flow of the Studio Ghibli films nor yet the 2D-within-3D vibe of the brilliant Spider-Verse movies. The script, full of backstory gubbins, also lacks zing. ” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 12, 2024
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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
31%
2/5
“As follies go Folie à Deux is dull and underwhelming.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 4, 2024
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
75%
3/5
“As with many sequels, getting the old gang together again feels as though 20 per cent of it is for the benefit of the old gang. But it’s an enjoyable homecoming nonetheless. ” –
The Arts Desk
Sep 10, 2024
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Firebrand (2023)
58%
3/5
“It falls to Jude Law to dig out the glimmers of charm that might have attracted Vikander to him in the first place. The two of them are scarily good together.” –
The Arts Desk
Sep 7, 2024
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Black Dog (2024)
97%
3/5
“Guan is clearly a director with a good mix of technique and commitment, plus a healthy eye for the oddball. He’s interested in the stresses of rural depopulation, but doesn’t want to scold his society for too many deeper flaws.” –
The Arts Desk
Aug 30, 2024
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Borderlands (2024)
10%
1/5
“Come back Madame Web, all is forgiven.” –
The Arts Desk
Aug 12, 2024
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Green Border (2023)
93%
5/5
“Holland’s movie is a lesson plan for the 21st century and she has the résumé to draw a clear line between the 1940s and the 2020s. The forest closes in.” –
The Arts Desk
Jun 21, 2024
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The Beast (2023)
86%
3/5
“Caged here in endless self-examination that always misses the point, Seydoux is establishing herself as a prodigious talent, both spontaneous and withholding.” –
The Arts Desk
May 31, 2024
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Nezouh (2022)
83%
4/5
“Trying to do “magical realism” in movies -- that is, both sides of that formula in the same film -- is usually a tall order, but Kaadan has a half-jocular sense of abandon and goes for it anyway amid the dust and explosions. ” –
The Arts Desk
May 3, 2024
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
54%
2/5
“Adam Wingard’s movie is best aimed at those whose thumbs are working imaginary game controllers as they watch.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 8, 2024
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Robot Dreams (2023)
98%
4/5
“Where a Disney or Pixar version of the story would lead us on some expansive, Homeric journey towards self-actualisation, here we have an introspective tale... that draws on a more recent model of, let’s say, Proust.” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 22, 2024
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
97%
4/5
“Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World is a mad clowning film that eats itself, profane in all ways and in all directions. ” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 8, 2024
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Red Island (2023)
84%
3/5
“Sixty years on from The Battle of Algiers, a film that exposed the horrors of France’s imperial adventures to the world, Robin Campillo’s new movie is more of a snuggle than a battle.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 29, 2024
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The Iron Claw (2023)
89%
3/5
“You appreciate the lack of irony while waiting for some nuance to appear, but in this case a rather superficial family memoir is pretty much all we get through to the end.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 9, 2024
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The Zone of Interest (2023)
93%
5/5
“Glazer has a story he doesn’t want to tell, and maybe a movie he doesn’t want to make. His need to make it bald and elliptical fights with a former ad man’s instinct to be ornate. And he strikingly combines the two.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 2, 2024
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Next Goal Wins (2023)
46%
2/5
“None of the real-life characters are worked particularly hard, and this is a sitcomy effort that feels as if it should be in half-hour instalments.” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 29, 2023
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Sweet Sue (2023)
88%
4/5
“It’s an ambling, facetious character-piece about hopeless classless numpties going round in circles, a film with surprisingly zero dud notes for a first-time moviemaker. Sweet Sue is a reminder that we have pretty good casting directors, too.” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 23, 2023
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The Peasants (2023)
61%
3/5
“In a modern world where visual effects can ginger up the most realist of live-action movies without us realising it, this is an odd example of a film where you’re conscious of unusual effects but somehow it all looks too natural and neat.” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 11, 2023
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Lost in the Night (2023)
60%
3/5
“The performances are generally strong and Escalante directs with big, confident, male-gaze lensing, capturing a wide barren land that seems both dreamy and amnesiac.” –
The Arts Desk
Nov 27, 2023
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Saltburn (2023)
71%
3/5
“[Promising Young Woman] combined entertainment value with a serious point in a very well-tuned way. This follow-up tries to keep the shock value high, and ladles on the comedy of extremes, but it all seems more for effect than illumination.” –
The Arts Desk
Nov 18, 2023
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