The Curzon Journal

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Oct 29, 2026 4/5 His work is an appealing mix of sweetness, sourness and spiciness, where trinkets and baubles lure you in, and ideological daring knocks you out. Go to Full Review I Love Boosters (2026) 92% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Jun 30, 2026 3/5 Remove the smattering of references to podcasts and dating apps, and The Invite could easily take place in 1977, with its Woody Allen clash of uptight, therapised neurotics and liberated, truth-telling interlopers. Go to Full Review The Invite (2026) 96% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Apr 2, 2026 4/5 The Drama constructs a trolley problem for the Instagram age that could easily double as a viral op-ed from The Cut’s relationships section. Go to Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Mar 10, 2026 3/5 Project Hail Mary is a rare film that holds its cards close, biding its time, then reveals its winning hand with a flourish. Go to Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Dec 11, 2025 4/5 Bobbing and zipping, slashing and thrashing, Marty Supreme is a frenzied portrait of the athlete as a young, selfish man that leaves you, agape, questioning the true meaning of victory. Go to Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Oct 21, 2025 4/5 Bugonia is still a deliciously nasty little genre movie that criticises late-stage capitalism with Yorgos Lanthimos’ dry humour, toe-curling brutality and cheeky absurdism. Go to Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Oct 10, 2025 The isolation of fame and the mutability of identity are core tenets of Noah Baumbach’s ruminative, pleasingly melancholy character study. Go to Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Sep 24, 2025 3.5/5 Make no mistake: competency porn this is not. The film frustrates our desire to see each stage in a grand plan fall into place – and it’s all the better for it. Go to Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 89% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Sep 17, 2025 4/5 One Battle After Another is a full meal of a film, a character piece smuggled into a roof-jumping, grenade-tossing, car-flipping action movie that smartly comments on third-rail political issues. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Aug 8, 2025 3.5/5 A dramedy in the truest sense of the word, it pulls off the delicate tightrope act of moving between harrowing intensity and Sahara-dry gallows humour. Go to Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal May 15, 2025 3/5 In many ways, The Final Reckoning is less an action movie, more a disaster movie. Where worst-case scenarios used to be implied, here they’re visualised with apocalyptic projections. Go to Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Jan 10, 2025 5/5 Without being too grandiose, The Brutalist is what cinema is all about. Go to Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Jan 6, 2025 4/5 Much of the film’s drama derives from its morally porous central relationship, its skirting around the question of who exactly has the power. Go to Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Dec 17, 2024 3.5/5 Better Man doesn’t feel as guarded, as micromanaged, as other films of its ilk. Go to Full Review Better Man (2024) 89% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Oct 10, 2024 4/5 It’s bracing to watch The Apprentice. This is an uncompromising movie defiantly working outside the system and answering to no one. Go to Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 83% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Aug 20, 2024 3/5 The film is much like the social-media platforms whose parlance it has swallowed: a lacquered, curated irreality that’s fun to spend time with – but might just end up being very bad for you. Go to Full Review Blink Twice (2024) 74% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Jul 16, 2024 3.5/5 It’s necessarily silly – the kind of dumb fun that has you rolling your eyes, but simultaneously outstretching your hand for more. Go to Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Jul 2, 2024 3.5/5 The Nature of Love offers a well rounded, even-handed view of an amorous dalliance – from the fizzing endorphin rush to the inevitable comedown – that’s sympathetic to both parties. Go to Full Review The Nature of Love (2023) 92% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal Jun 25, 2024 4/5 Emma Stone has two Oscars and the world at her feet, but prefers to collaborate with Lanthimos on freaky curios that require her to fellate nightsticks as opposed to following a more conventional, A-list path. More power to her. Go to Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% - -

Yasmin Omar The Curzon Journal May 29, 2024 4/5 What keeps all of the film’s sky-high concepts not only legible, but engrossing, is Seydoux; she is its grounding force, guiding us through the Dantean maze of mahogany-panelled ballrooms and neon-streaked dancefloors. Go to Full Review The Beast (2023) 86% - -