Author: Juliette Howard
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Drop (2025) – Unoriginal high-strung thriller is entertainment without substance
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Meghann Fahy stars in this nail-biting thriller from screenwriter and director Christopher Landon, a far cry from his…
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Mickey 17 (2025) – Bong Joon Ho’s dark dystopia is strangely comforting to watch
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It’s striking how such a dark concept can be so delightful. On a human expedition to colonize the…
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The Last Showgirl (2024) – Pamela Anderson airbrushes her razzle dazzle life in Gia Coppola’s tragic drama
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We are in an age of ageing women on camera – first came Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, in…
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Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy – Lovelorn heroine ages beautifully in sucker punch of a fourth instalment
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Bridget Jones has always been, and always will be, the epitome of the struggling singleton in her thirties…
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A Complete Unknown (2024) – Bob Dylan’s transgressive nature does not carry through to his biopic
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There should be a word to describe a feeling of nostalgia for a time you have never lived…
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Emilia Pérez (2024) – Jacques Audiard’s hot mess takes the music out of the musical
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Though comparing a film to others is not necessarily the best way to go about reviewing it, it…
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A Real Pain (2025) – Jesse Eisenberg’s touching call to feel more deeply
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A Real Pain begs the question – how efficient is a film that tucks you into an emotional…
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Hard Truths (2024) – Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy is a bottomless well in Mike Leigh’s return to the big screen
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There are surprisingly few hard truths to be found in Mike Leigh’s latest release, a tale of a…
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Queer (2024) – Daniel Craig takes a bad trip in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs
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Daniel Craig is ravenous in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novella of the same…
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12 Films of Christmas – Numbers 3 to 1
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3. Woman of the Hour – three bachelors Anna Kendrick adds remarkable directing to her panoply of skills…
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12 Films of Christmas – Numbers 6-4
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6. Kneecap – rappers rapping “A country without a language is only half a nation,” declares an activist…
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12 Films of Christmas – Numbers 9 to 7
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9. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – inventors inventing (yet more stuff his poor dog has to…
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12 Films of Christmas – or, a colloquial recounting of my mission (à la Santa) to watch and rank twelve 2024 releases
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12. Red One – security guards guarding Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson adequately stars as Callum Drift, the North…
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Conclave (2024) – Ralph Fiennes leads Edward Berger’s excellent cardinal cat fight
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Ralph Fiennes leads a star-studded cast with the perfect blend of hesitation and conviction in Edward Berger’s papal…
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Paddington in Peru (2024) – Threequel takes furry hero on an enjoyable, if slightly muddled adventure
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Hold onto your red-stained bucket hats – everyone’s favourite British bear is back on the big screen. The…
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Anora (2024) – Sean Baker’s Palme d’or is a worthy winner
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It only takes Anora’s first shot to be fully sucked in – a pan across a row of…
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Blitz (2024) – Caricatured London wastes away in Steve McQueen’s wartime drama
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Steve McQueen has never been one to shy away from difficult topics. 12 Years a Slave, perhaps his…
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Heretic (2024) – Hugh Grant expertly shepherds faulty religious horror
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Only Hugh Grant can portray two sides of devilishly charming and get away with it. In Scott Beck…
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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) – A sequel as conflicting in reception as it is in subject
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Living up to Joker is no small task. Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, first R-rated film…
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The Outrun (2024) – Saoirse Ronan navigates between chaos and calm in tempestuous recovery tale
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Everything feels painfully real in Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun, a tale of loss and recovery in which Saoirse…
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