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Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (2025) 4/5 “There is little that is new here for connoisseurs of the likes of My Hero Academia. But it is underpinned by a pressing social anxiety... And Kamiya and Miya execute it all with an addictive punky relish.” – Guardian Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Time Travel Is Dangerous (2024) 82% 4/5 “If the resulting low-budget assemblage still bears these nametags and has the odd stray thread showing, it also has a persistent charm of its own.” – Guardian Apr 15, 2025 Full Review A Knight's War (2024) 3/5 “With its sisyphean vibe and implacable mood, it also owes a fair bit to the Dark Souls video games; though it’s not a masterpiece on that level, it nevertheless has a grim self-conviction that grips despite its low-budget limitations.” – Guardian Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Sebastian (2024) 75% 3/5 “With the film partly caught in this self-referentiality, it doesn’t develop much beyond a vague treatise on the cost of pseudonymous exploitation. At least the director’s identification with his lead character results in a strong performance from Mollica.” – Guardian Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Ne Zha 2 (2025) 96% 4/5 “If the story is Chinese, this rather token plea in favour of misunderstood outsiders and acknowledging difference feels pure Hollywood. But so overwhelming is the artistry, it barely matters. ” – Guardian Mar 20, 2025 Full Review The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru (2023) 4/5 “The film’s only real flaw is an occasional sentimentality; it could have done without the syrupy torch song over the roll call of the fallen. Otherwise it’s potent stuff” – Guardian Mar 20, 2025 Full Review People (2024) 4/5 “It’s raw but epic film-making with an instinctive grasp of the obscenity of war.” – Guardian Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Bayou (2024) 2/5 “Directors Taneli Mustonen and Brad Watson show bursts of proficiency, with drone shots of metallic-looking glades and interesting tilt-shift effects for the plane crash. But they are alongside some of the most laughable practical effects imaginable.” – Guardian Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Antidote (2024) 4/5 “Hopping between location-stamped world cities like a Hollywood thriller, the film has a Michael Mann-like dynamism and pathos in detailing the emotional cost of this defiance.” – Guardian Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Satu - Year of the Rabbit (2024) 3/5 “Sonepho has a kind of stubborn wisdom beyond his years that -- in tandem with equally resolute Saysana as his chaperone -- sustains this moving parable about self-responsibility.” – Guardian Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Don't Turn Out the Lights (2023) 2/5 “Fickman ends up buried by the cliches he’s invited over the threshold.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2025 Full Review Grey Matter (2023) 1/5 “[A] well-meaning but hapless sub-Hallmark comedy-drama – whose attempts to sweeten the subject matter with humour only serve to direct it towards every cliche-branch on its way down the tree of trite life lessons.” – Guardian Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Food for Thought (2025) 2/5 “While the broad-brush ideas about meat-eating’s environmental and health impacts are bandied about, there’s no real examination of why underlying attitudes shifted, and how further inroads can be made.” – Guardian Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013) 89% 3/5 “Some of the character-work is a touch scratchy, but it is counterbalanced by animation whose mischievous dynamism fits this outlandish jamboree... This has cosmic charm aplenty.” – Guardian Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Intercepted (2024) 100% 4/5 “A bleak and searing wiretap into Putin’s warping effect on his people and the psychology of power.” – Guardian Feb 18, 2025 Full Review The Dead Thing (2024) 83% 3/5 “The slasher-type direction increasingly taken by the film is a bit silly and awkwardly executed. This is where the film’s Lynchian effects seem most cut-and-pasted. Hunt, though, gives an excellent performance in the lead role” – Guardian Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Mom (2024) 73% 3/5 “If the film is frustratingly nebulous as its layers of reality intermingle, it is a neonatal nightmare that undoubtedly envelops you in its feelbad embrace.” – Guardian Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Scarlet Winter (2022) 2/5 “Scarlet Winter feels more like a logistical exercise in arranging these story shards than one that uses these angles to cast illuminating light on the characters.” – Guardian Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Dark Match (2024) 68% 2/5 “Energetically executed in order to hide an essentially knuckle-trailing concept (true to the wrestling tradition, to be fair), it somehow ends up less fun than it should be.” – Guardian Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Elevation (2024) 55% 3/5 “Prospective future instalments might want to aim higher than mere competency.” – Guardian Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Two of a Kind (2024) 2/5 “The film doesn’t lean into the potential farce whirlwind presented by this tangle of lovers and their problems; instead it gets bogged down in heavy-handed messaging about the likes of social-media superficiality and couples not listening to each other.” – Guardian Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Dead Before They Wake (2025) 2/5 “Here is a vigilante thriller co-directed, written by and starring prolific low-budget Scottish film-maker Nathan Shepka, which has a kind of grim integrity despite the uneven acting and numerous rough edges.” – Guardian Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Grafted (2024) 77% 3/5 “Some subtext would have been nice, but skin-deep does the job, too.” – Guardian Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Catching Dust (2023) 75% 4/5 “Though Catching Dust eventually settles into a more conventional noir register, Gatt commits to his characters and follows them to unlikely destinations.” – Guardian Jan 14, 2025 Full Review Survive (2024) 71% 3/5 “This directorial pep, along with invested performances across the board, allows Survive to build a sense of family vulnerabilities that is rawer than the standard cheap audience-identification tactics usually used in blockbuster disaster movies. ” – Guardian Jan 7, 2025 Full Review
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