Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/5
F9 (2021)
It plays like a Mission: Impossible film written by some eight-year-old boys on a Haribo spree, and by now, fans of the brand couldn't possibly hope for anything else.
Posted Jun 24, 2021
2
3/5
Kindred (2020)
By turning its heroine's confinement into a literal ordeal, Kindred grips best as a neo-Victorian nightmare of maternity.
Posted Jun 24, 2021
3
3/5
Monster Hunter (2020)
It achieves a kind of jokey bombast.
Posted Jun 18, 2021
4
4/5
Luca (2021)
The moral wins no points for originality, but is handled by Pixar with typical sophistication and nuance...
Posted Jun 18, 2021
5
4/5
The Return: Life After ISIS (2021)
What the film did convey though, was that there are young children living in Roj in the most desperate conditions.
Posted Jun 16, 2021
6
1/5
7
4/5
Shiva Baby (2021)
Could Rachel Sennott be to the bagel what Lauren Bacall was to the cigarette?
Posted Jun 10, 2021
8
3/5
Nobody (2021)
A kicky, flashy action thriller...
Posted Jun 10, 2021
9
5/5
In the Heights (2021)
Could it be the film of the summer?
Posted Jun 10, 2021
10
North by Northwest (1959)
What is there not to love about this magnificent 1959 thriller?
Posted Jun 8, 2021
11
4/5
The Killing of Two Lovers (2021)
Writer-director Robert Machoian has fashioned a wintry, clenched tale of domestic strife here, confining all but one sequence inside the 4:3 aspect ratio.
Posted Jun 4, 2021
12
3/5
After Love (2020)
Contrivances may test some viewers, but they won't be a deal-breaker for everyone, and Khan's actors do a lot of good work to try to make the details ring true.
Posted Jun 4, 2021
13
2/5
Land (2021)
Land will give you a craving to be in the great outdoors, maybe before it's even over.
Posted Jun 4, 2021
14
3/5
Dream Horse (2021)
Its saving grace is a wonderful - and convincingly accented - lead performance by Toni Collette...
Posted Jun 4, 2021
15
2/5
RJ Cutler's film runs for two hours and 20 minutes, plus a discretionary intermission, and nothing in it suggests it should have been over half that length.
Posted May 29, 2021
16
3/5
Frankie (2019)
Half the cast come to the rescue, guaranteeing, at least, a pleasant time.
Posted May 27, 2021
17
3/5
The contorted-limb effects are legitimately freaky; the sound and fury ramp up ruthlessly.
Posted May 27, 2021
18
4/5
Cruella (2021)
As remakes and spin-offs go, this one's barking up the right tree.
Posted May 26, 2021
19
2/5
Rare Beasts (2019)
I found myself gnawing my upper lip with embarrassment, but on the film's behalf, rather than its characters'.
Posted May 20, 2021
20
4/5
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
Blunt remains a steely joy, and there can be no argument with her signature shotgun-plus-tea-dress look, suggestive of Ellen Ripley on the school run.
Posted May 19, 2021
21
3/5
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)
Gluck gets it hopping along.
Posted May 18, 2021
22
2/5
Danny Boy (2021)
Writer Robert Jones was interested in ambiguities, but splitting our sympathies between the two protagonists didn't seem to fit with the reality.
Posted May 17, 2021
23
2/5
The Woman in the Window (2021)
If it sounds like a variation on Rear Window, it is that, and all the rest.
Posted May 17, 2021
24
2/5
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
"The last three traps weren't gory enough" feels among the more depressing critical judgements I'll ever bestow.
Posted May 14, 2021
25
3/5
The Secrets We Keep (2020)
Rapace... lifts the picture above its more formulaic instincts.
Posted May 13, 2021
26
2/5
Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
A musty amalgam of fire-fighting action flick, John-Grisham-esque conspiracy hokum and outdoorsy bonding adventure. All it lacks is a web search using Ask Jeeves.
Posted May 13, 2021
27
3/5
My Years with The Queen (2021)
This spilling of the royal beans was scandal-free but entertaining.
Posted May 12, 2021
28
4/5
Army Of The Dead (2021)
29
4/5
Apples (Mila) (2020)
30
1/5
Mortal Kombat (2021)
31
5/5
32
2/5
The Virtuoso (2021)
Making the best of a shabby job? Funnily enough, even if it all too rarely heeds its own brief, that's what The Virtuoso is all about.
Posted Apr 29, 2021
33
1/5
Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
[A] film so frivolous and twee I felt as if my brain were leaking out of my nostrils as I watched.
Posted Apr 29, 2021
34
4/5
35
3/5
As a gently exploratory portrait of adolescence, Spring Blossom is tender, amiable and sweetly played, but it doesn't risk (or say) all that much.
Posted Apr 22, 2021
36
2/5
Into the Labyrinth (2020)
This must be crime thriller as borderline-surreal fantasy, but lacking in the verve to conjure any nightmarish aura capably. In fact, it's disastrously literal-minded.
Posted Apr 22, 2021
37
4/5
Black Bear (2020)
The barrier between life and art can be a famously leaky one, and Black Bear impishly pokes its paw through the holes.
Posted Apr 22, 2021
38
2/5
The Reckoning (2021)
39
4/5
Love and Monsters (2020)
It's not mock-heroic in a winking way; it doesn't seem so pleased with its own punchlines. It's rueful and shrugging.
Posted Apr 13, 2021
40
4/5
The Father (2021)
41
5/5
Sound of Metal (2020)
42
4/5
Palm Springs (2020)
Part comedy, part cautionary fable, Palm Springs lands its big ideas as lightly as its punchlines.
Posted Apr 9, 2021
43
1/5
Disasters: well, they said it.
Posted Apr 9, 2021
44
2/5
Chaos Walking (2021)
45
1/5
Antebellum (2020)
Antebellum doesn't so much concertina the past and the present as do a leering jig back and forth, then blow you a callous raspberry instead.
Posted Apr 1, 2021
46
4/5
Finding Jack Charlton (2020)
47
2/5
The Banishing (2020)
It's especially disappointing to watch Christopher Smith struggle to pull it off.
Posted Mar 26, 2021
48
1/5
Tom & Jerry (2020)
The film opens on three rapping pigeons who perform A Tribe Called Quest's Can I Kick It? in its entirety, and somehow goes downhill from there.
Posted Mar 25, 2021
49
3/5
Six Minutes to Midnight (2021)
50
2/5
Made in Italy (2020)