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Philip De Semlyen

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The Friend (2024) 83% 3/5 “A poignantly affecting watch that mostly earns its emotional payoff, delivering gentle laughs along the way. It’ll have them howling in the aisles at the next dog-friendly screening.” – Time Out Apr 26, 2025 Full Review The Amateur (2025) 61% 3/5 “Heller is not always easy to root for, which can make The Amateur a chilly experience. Lovers of old-school espionage thrillers and anyone raised on Littell and le Carré’s Cold War yarns won’t mind a jot.” – Time Out Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% 5/5 “A survival epic full of mysteries and magic, it’s an animated epic worthy of Ghibli.” – Time Out Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% 4/5 “Cerebral rather than action-packed, it’s like a classic le Carré (or, with its Harry Palmer allusions, Len Deighton) thriller, brought bang up to date with stylish direction, outrageously thirsty acting, and some bone-dry wit.” – Time Out Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) 88% 4/5 “The perfect pint-glass raise to a legendary Londoner.” – Time Out Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 50% 3/5 “An atmospheric, sporadically disquieting depiction of fatherhood in freefall.” – Time Out Jan 15, 2025 Full Review William Tell (2024) 56% 3/5 “The acting is a bubbling fondue of clashing styles... But with its golden mountain vistas and some sweeping Lord of the Rings-like camerawork, Will Tell does have a satisfying old-school sensibility. ” – Time Out Jan 14, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 84% 4/5 “Eggers’ own spell never lifts for a second. As the quietly menacing opening act gives way to a maximalist second half and the accursedness levels go through the roof, Nosferatu becomes a genuinely chilling experience.” – Time Out Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Moana 2 (2024) 61% 3/5 “Moana remains a great character, resourceful and self-reliant but still prone to trip, and her dynamic with Maui is again a joy, even if it’s softened from the snarky interplay of the first film. ” – Time Out Nov 26, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 4/5 “It’s the quietly magisterial Fiennes who steals the show. ” – Time Out Nov 26, 2024 Full Review Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024) 97% 4/5 “It’s the quietly magisterial Fiennes who steals the show. Don’t be surprised to see white smoke billowing out of the Academy Awards come March. ” – Time Out Nov 22, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% 4/5 “You’d need an army of flying monkeys to find a Wicked fan with any grumbles about the results. The Crazy Rich Asians director’s screen version pops with vibrancy and energy, effervescence and sincerity.” – Time Out Nov 20, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 4/5 “Joaquin Phoenix’s psychologically complex brand of villainy is much missed. But in the flamboyant Washington, it has a trump card that pays off in a gripping and slickly executed final stretch. ” – Time Out Nov 12, 2024 Full Review Piece By Piece (2024) 83% 4/5 “A colourful journey lit up with great tunes and a deep love of music -- an ingenious, infectious new spin on the music doc. Now let’s have Diplo in Duplo.” – Time Out Nov 7, 2024 Full Review Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 100% 4/5 “It’s the two characters with no dialogue at all, Gromit and Feathers, who steal the show -- a pair of silent cinema-style adversaries sparring in another joyfully Aardman nostalgic caper.” – Time Out Oct 29, 2024 Full Review Black Box Diaries (2024) 98% 4/5 “It’s an unsparing, fly-on-the-wall journey through a legal and societal hellscape that raises at least as many questions as it answers. ” – Time Out Oct 29, 2024 Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% 4/5 “Its curiosity is its strongest suit, as McQueen’s script lays bare divisions that see working-class families barred from taking shelter in Tube stations, socialism taking root underground, and racism rife.” – Time Out Oct 10, 2024 Full Review His Three Daughters (2023) 98% 4/5 “It’s built on the performances of its three leads: Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon -- a trio of actresses whose contrasting strengths dovetail beautifully in that Cries and Whispers-y set-up.” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% 3/5 “Cumbersome plotting aside, there’s enough gory mayhem and genuine zingers to make Deadpool & Wolverine a fun ride in a packed and up-for-it cinema.” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% 4/5 “Played wonderfully by Fernanda Torres, Eunice is onscreen almost throughout. She’s at the centre of a family drama and political thriller that really blossoms as a survival story.” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Only the River Flows (2023) 85% 4/5 “The pre-cellphone, pre-internet setting is a satisfying time capsule back to an era when on-screen detectives worked on hunches and their wits. In this enigmatic tale, they may not be enough.” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% 4/5 “Every possible ingredient has surely been used, every angle exhausted. Major props, then, to Fede Álvarez for cooking up something fresh in this furiously exciting, gnarly seventh entry. He’s even found the eggs, too.” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Black Dog (2024) 97% 4/5 “Next to Umberto D., Chinese director Guan Hu may just have made the enduring masterpiece of man-and-dog movies -- Citizen Canine, if you will -- in this soul-filling homecoming odyssey set on the windswept fringes of the Gobi Desert. ” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review It Ends With Us (2024) 54% 3/5 “This smart and sensitive movie version will more than satisfy the millions who’ve picked it up and found a bible of sorts for abuse survivors.” – Time Out Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Quiet Life (2024) 94% 3/5 “Quiet Life plays effectively on that deep seated parental fear: of not being able to protect your children or, worse, infecting them with your anxiety and uncertainty.” – Time Out Sep 5, 2024 Full Review
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