The Monkey (2025)
78%
3/5
“...The Monkey is a resolutely minor, down and dirty B-movie, relishing cartoon gore and comic excess.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 24, 2025
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Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
48%
2/5
“Talk of the Avengers reassembling recalls happier days, but Marvel hasn’t yet found the serum to rejuvenate its exhausted universe.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 14, 2025
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Presence (2024)
88%
3/5
“If some fascination evaporates, the outre family portrait lingers.” –
The Arts Desk
Jan 26, 2025
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Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
4/5
“The subliminal logic is of dreams, the intention immersive, as Ross’s camera inhabits his protagonists’ minds, perhaps even grasping for their souls.” –
The Arts Desk
Jan 3, 2025
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Comandante (2023)
41%
3/5
“For all the modern touches, this ends as the kind of sea yarn Jack Hawkins helmed in the Fifties. ” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 11, 2024
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Milisuthando (2023)
93%
4/5
“This poetic film elegantly divines forgotten tributaries of what happened to South Africans, and connects to salving, ancient truths.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 30, 2024
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Dahomey (2024)
99%
4/5
“The film bursts into hot life in Benin’s capital Cotonou, where Diop selected fiercely informed students for a freewheeling, fiery intellectual debate. ” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 28, 2024
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Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
40%
3/5
“Venom is a visually interesting creation, with his Alien knock-off, knife-toothed predator’s head belied by big, wet eyes, but the weightless digital punch-ups feel unreal, and being asked to shed a tear for the head-chomping lug is too much.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 28, 2024
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Salem's Lot (2024)
46%
2/5
“There are hints of a larger American story this Salem’s Lot is too gutted to tell.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 15, 2024
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Things Will Be Different (2024)
81%
3/5
“The sense of yawning gaps in the scarily wide open fields and skies is reflected in logic and budget holes as Felker’s yarn progresses, though he also withholds solutions, knowing mystery offers more, in an enigmatic calling-card.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 7, 2024
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Megalopolis (2024)
45%
4/5
“The awkward collision of stagey dialogue, half-digested philosophy and delirious new Méliès dreams makes Megalopolis its own towering, toppling thing.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 1, 2024
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Arcadian (2024)
78%
3/5
“Arcadian’s intriguing premise loosens once Cage leaves the screen, and slack plot and action beats swamp its essence. ” –
The Arts Desk
Jun 17, 2024
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A House in Jerusalem (2023)
75%
4/5
“Palestinian Alayan and regular, sibling co-writer Rami Alayan offer a sympathetic but searching perspective on a place where the past is both national rationale and necessarily buried.” –
The Arts Desk
Jun 3, 2024
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
80%
4/5
“The ideas at play since Pierre Boule’s original, 1963 novel Monkey Planet are eternally rich.” –
The Arts Desk
May 13, 2024
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Mothers' Instinct (2024)
52%
3/5
“[Undermines] its Sixties suburban gloss and Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain’s desperate housewives with genre clichés, yet sustained by the courage of debuting director Benoît Delhomme’s un-Hollywood conviction.” –
The Arts Desk
Apr 1, 2024
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
42%
3/5
“It’s not very funny, frightening, exciting or ambitious, and visually flat... There is something kindly and well-meant in its script and performances, though, a lack of cynicism starting with the cast, which makes it amiably involving.” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 25, 2024
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Dune: Part Two (2024)
92%
4/5
“In a genre once jokingly called space opera, its grand aristocratic dynasties and passions justify the term.” –
The Arts Desk
Mar 4, 2024
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Occupied City (2023)
72%
4/5
“Filming during 2020’s pandemic, this becomes a time-jumping double-portrait of his adopted home city, though the inexact mirroring often cracks.” –
The Arts Desk
Feb 13, 2024
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SCALA!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits (2023)
100%
4/5
“Just as the films the Scala championed drank from an outlaw, rock’n’roll elixir, so Scala!!! goes beyond an ageing coterie's nostalgia to confirm the continuing value of our communal counter-cultures, and the other lives you can dream in the dark.” –
The Arts Desk
Jan 8, 2024
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Ferrari (2023)
72%
3/5
“Steady and safety-first till the flag goes down on the racing which provides all its visceral power, this is a beautifully crafted but counterintuitively low-voltage entry in Mann’s drifting late career.” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 29, 2023
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Anselm (2023)
98%
4/5
“Wim Wenders’ 3D cameras bring you inside the artist’s monumental, mythic world, which he is uniquely equipped to comprehend.” –
The Arts Desk
Dec 13, 2023
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Rustin (2023)
83%
3/5
“[George C. Wolfe] can’t escape biopic cliches, as real life’s inevitable progress dulls imagination. His and Domingo’s love for their subject anyway powers a sufficiently complex character study, and resurrects an exemplary American hero.” –
The Arts Desk
Nov 6, 2023
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Close Your Eyes (2023)
93%
“Erice’s love letter to all he knows.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 20, 2023
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Together 99 (2023)
71%
“[Together 99] lets Moodyson show the erosion and endurance of love and ideals over time in a humane, impishly provocative coda to the original.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 20, 2023
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The Killer (2023)
85%
“Fincher’s shark-like forward motion glides right through... Themes of masculinity and flickering humanity can’t, though, elevate his most glib, inconsequential film, which wastes the still luckless Fassbender, too.” –
The Arts Desk
Oct 20, 2023
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