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Peter Bradshaw Guardian 6 days ago 3/5 This is a cacophonous, chaotic film which delivers a sensory overload of almost incoherently frantic onscreen activity, and it can be hard to take, though it is often funny. Go to Full Review I Love Boosters (2026) 92% - -

Peter Bradshaw Guardian 6 days ago 3/5 It’s almost funny but not exactly, and almost disturbing but not exactly, occupying a strange and intriguing Venn-diagram overlap between macabre horror and sentimentality. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Adrian Horton Guardian 6 days ago 3/5 As with every war movie, there are a thousand possibly better or more challenging war movies existing at the margins of this one. But this one, firmly for the marines, is what we got. Go to Full Review The Mosquito Bowl (2026) 37% - -

Derek Malcolm Guardian Oct 31, 2026 In the end, the adaptation works because Luhrmann knows how to tell a story, even if he pushes it along as fast and furiously as humanly possible. You gulp but in the end you accept. Go to Full Review William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) 79% 77%

Derek Malcolm Guardian Oct 30, 2026 A very lively example of a young director transcending his material with super-efficient energy. Go to Full Review Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) 92% 80%

Andrew Pulver Guardian Oct 28, 2026 4/5 Throughout this parade of achievement, Asher cuts an impressively self-possessed figure, unassuming in many ways but also not hiding his light under a bushel. Go to Full Review Peter Asher: Everywhere Man (2025) 97% - -

Leslie Felperin Guardian Oct 28, 2026 3/5 Those with a fear of heights or prone to vertigo may find this all a bit too immersive, in fact. That’s even more the case considering the point of the movie appears to be to provoke anxiety in the viewer for nearly the entire running time. Go to Full Review Everest: The Other Side (2026) 77% - -

Peter Bradshaw Guardian Oct 28, 2026 5/5 Reed is a revelation with his intelligent, focused, charismatic and dignified performance as the sensualist cleric who submits to injustice like a dissolute version of Thomas Becket. Go to Full Review Ken Russell's The Devils (2026) 98% - -

Catherine Bray Guardian Oct 27, 2026 2/5 It’s a frustrating film, because there are flashes of something great here, but in the final analysis, Big Baby crawls rather than walks. Go to Full Review Big Baby (2025) 63% - -

Leslie Felperin Guardian Oct 27, 2026 3/5 We are left with a messy tangle of historical fact, colourful personalities and dramatic biographies that could have made a longer film. But any way you slice it, Fergie comes across as a compellingly weird character. Go to Full Review All About the Money (2026) 92% - -

Phil Hoad Guardian Oct 27, 2026 3/5 It’s kind of glorious. But, unsurprisingly Cheung can’t keep the novelty level up. Once he gets back to the actual plot after the hour mark, the film reverts to less-than-interesting gangland-retribution shtick. Go to Full Review Bad Day at the Office (2026) - - - -

Leslie Felperin Guardian Oct 27, 2026 3/5 The old school vibe makes this particularly endearing, even if the characterisation isn't especially complex or nuanced, but Hoshi brings a spontaneity and intelligence to the lead role that is consistently winning. Go to Full Review Never After Dark (2026) 98% - -

Adrian Horton Guardian Oct 27, 2026 2/5 There’s admirable ambition here, and plenty of sumptuous visuals to spare, but the clash between one section’s biting cynicism and another’s ragged heart proves too discordant to overcome. Go to Full Review - - - -

Peter Bradshaw Guardian Oct 22, 2026 2/5 If you liked Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G the first time around, you’ll like this less; if you disliked it, you’ll dislike this more; if you suspected it was racist, you’ll be more emboldened to say so. Go to Full Review Ali G: Who Iz I? (2026) 39% - -

Benjamin Lee Guardian Oct 21, 2026 2/5 Even as a similarly new way in, as a relatively standalone horror movie for those who wouldn’t now rush toward a superhero caper, it’s a clumsily missed opportunity. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Adrian Horton Guardian Oct 20, 2026 3/5 For true fans, there’s plenty here to keep one’s attention. For everyone else, it remains a crazy headline. Go to Full Review The Disciple (2026) 89% - -

Peter Bradshaw Guardian Oct 20, 2026 4/5 You can change nothing by looking back; it is simply a forum for sadness and regret. Such is the emotional dynamic of this engrossing, affecting film from Kore-eda, a film of great clarity, intimacy and high seriousness. Go to Full Review Look Back (2026) 90% - -

Owen Myers Guardian Oct 20, 2026 2/5 The best you can offer Masterplan is faint praise: it could breeze by as company to your Sunday night takeout even if you will struggle to remember it a week later. Go to Full Review Masterplan (2026) 33% - -

Phil Hoad Guardian Oct 20, 2026 4/5 Ghost in the Cell’s thin plot is really an excuse for Anwar to reel off his hitlist: he takes aim at cronyism, institutional brutality, private militias, secret mistresses, lapsed political idealism and the general degrading influence of money. Go to Full Review Ghost in the Cell (2026) 93% - -

Phil Hoad Guardian Oct 20, 2026 3/5 As befits any self-respecting ringmasters, directors David Charbonier and Justin Douglas Powell operate with much visual panache. Go to Full Review Vampire Carnival (2026) - - - -