Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
Beloved (1998)
2
4/5
Jackass Forever (2022)
Laugh for laugh, it may well be a series peak.
Posted Feb 2, 2022
3
4/5
The Tinder Swindler (2022)
A juicy, jaw-dropping true-crime story which beggars belief.
Posted Feb 2, 2022
4
Sing 2 (2021)
Your kids will love it.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
5
2/5
Amulet (2020)
This chamber-horror oddity from the English actress-turned-auteur is too weird, too wonky; intermittently gross, and often gruelling.
Posted Jan 27, 2022
6
3/5
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
Breaking down taboos around our attitudes to sex on screen is a laudable project, and one that the British two-hander Good Luck to You, Leo Grande gets at least half right.
Posted Jan 24, 2022
7
3/5
Fresh (2022)
Cave and her screenwriter, Lauryn Kahn, do almost all their savviest work at the start. But they have two leads who commit pretty perfectly.
Posted Jan 23, 2022
8
5/5
Nothing Compares (2022)
[A] vital testament to the bravery and significance of this preternaturally gifted, much maligned and embattled artist.
Posted Jan 22, 2022
9
4/5
Call Jane (2022)
Without giving in to bromides, the cha-cha, surprisingly feel-good rhythms of Nagy's direction make this heroine's sudden sense of purpose rather exhilarating.
Posted Jan 22, 2022
10
The Watermelon Woman (1997)
It also turns out to be quite likeable, helped by a disarming refusal to take itself or its milieu too seriously.
Posted Jan 21, 2022
11
3/5
Breaking (2022)
A message that may be a little blunted in delivery, but still hits home.
Posted Jan 21, 2022
12
5/5
Living (2022)
Nighy gives one of the finest (not to say subtlest) performances of his career to date.
Posted Jan 21, 2022
13
The Watermelon Woman (1997)
[The film] becomes a touching essay on the importance of remembrance and tradition to minorities who are often denied them.
Posted Jan 21, 2022
14
3/5
The Princess (2022)
The Princess tells us nothing we don't already know, but there's bracing value in seeing it crisply spelled out.
Posted Jan 21, 2022
15
3/5
16
2/5
Nightmare Alley (2021)
[A] strangely stiff and synthetic film...
Posted Jan 20, 2022
17
3/5
Belfast (2021)
At its best, Belfast recalls Hope and Glory, John Boorman's 1987 film based on its director's own Blitz-battered childhood.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
18
5/5
Mass (2021)
We see not one glimpse of the calamity that's blighted these lives, but in the eyes and faces of the four actors, we see it all.
Posted Jan 20, 2022
19
4/5
Cow (2022)
What an ingenious thing do with cattle: prod.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
20
5/5
Ascension (2021)
The film is full of news, insights and revelations without pushing a dogmatic thesis: it's as open-ended and humanly interested as documentaries get.
Posted Jan 13, 2022
21
2/5
Scream (2022)
It gets almost too meta to function.
Posted Jan 12, 2022
22
2/5
The 355 (2022)
It's the film equivalent of a high-fructose, corn-syrup-based fizzy drink being passed off as chic in taller, slimmer cans.
Posted Jan 6, 2022
23
4/5
Boiling Point (2021)
None of Gordon Ramsay's kitchen nightmares are a patch on this.
Posted Jan 6, 2022
24
3/5
Munich: The Edge of War (2022)
The suspense is sturdily and convincingly built, and has little to do with how events ultimately pan out, history having already spoiled us on that in advance.
Posted Jan 6, 2022
25
2/5
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
The big problem with Resurrections is momentum, but what kills charm to boot is how much PR it keeps trying to do for the franchise.
Posted Dec 21, 2021
26
2/5
Swan Song (2021)
Swan Song is a serenely pleasant experience and that's what's wrong with it.
Posted Dec 16, 2021
27
3/5
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Less resembles the franchise-bending ensemble romp promised by its trailers than an all-star Zoom call with a visual effects budget.
Posted Dec 15, 2021
28
2/5
The King's Man (2021)
Its plot and tone each end up zig-zagging manically in the attempt to fulfil both the film's creative ambitions and its duties to the brand.
Posted Dec 14, 2021
29
3/5
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021)
30
3/5
Wrath of Man (2021)
Rough at the edges and with a propensity for cartoonish violence, this is an action caper hewn in the image of its star.
Posted Dec 9, 2021
31
3/5
Don't Look Up (2021)
32
2/5
Being the Ricardos (2021)
You suspect Sorkin relishes the clash between Ball's fundamentally fatuous show and the razor-smartness of his take on it. And it is smart. It just isn't much else.
Posted Dec 9, 2021
33
4/5
Val (2021)
You grow surprisingly attached to Val Kilmer as this goes along, and prepared to indulge his pretentious side as he grapples for a state of grace.
Posted Dec 7, 2021
34
4/5
Encounter (2021)
35
3/5
Silent Night (2021)
36
5/5
West Side Story (2021)
West Side Story is, I believe, Spielberg's finest film in 20 years, and a new milestone in the career of one of our greatest living directors.
Posted Dec 2, 2021
37
2/5
The Unforgivable (2021)
It's never outright bad - not unforgivably so - but comes off muted, diffuse and generally half-baked.
Posted Nov 25, 2021
38
2/5
A Boy Called Christmas (2021)
Flimsily conceived, without ideas to cause an audience to lean in in wonder, and too many characters less liable to charm than grate.
Posted Nov 25, 2021
39
4/5
Encanto (2021)
Inarguably, it's an out-and-out delight.
Posted Nov 25, 2021
40
3/5
Robin Robin (2021)
41
3/5
House of Gucci (2021)
The fact that the major cast members can't seem to agree on what kind of film they're actually making is one of its most glaring hitches - and also one of its ripest pleasures.
Posted Nov 22, 2021
42
2/5
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
It's just what we were warned about all those years ago: something weird that don't look good.
Posted Nov 18, 2021
43
3/5
Bruised (2021)
Bruised is a marks-for-effort sort of film, but also a genuine reminder of Berry's acting talent and drive to make films with gritty emotional clout.
Posted Nov 18, 2021
44
5/5
Licorice Pizza (2021)
45
4/5
The Colour Room (2021)
For all the contrivances, it's hard to deny the Colour Room's charms.
Posted Nov 11, 2021
46
2/5
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Don't expect a Christmas miracle, then: it's more like a box of Quality Street that got heavily plundered before the wrapping went on.
Posted Nov 11, 2021
47
4/5
tick, tick...Boom! (2021)
Miranda and Levenson keep finding ways to both revel in and deconstruct the story's inherently theatrical pleasures in uniquely cinematic ways.
Posted Nov 11, 2021
48
2/5
Cry Macho (2021)
49
3/5
Red Notice (2021)
50
2/5
Finch (2021)