London Evening Standard

Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Oct 20, 2026 Kubrick's latest and most disturbing work -- a tour-de-force of unforgettable film-making. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Oct 19, 2026 Nicholson gives a supernova performance. He builds into grand guignol a clear line of insanity that loops up and down and around like roller-coaster tracks. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 75% 90%

Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Oct 16, 2026 What the film lacks is a style to match the baroque palace of prose that Vladimir Nabokov [wrote]... But within its own judiciously set limits, it is a stimulating and entertaining -- and cautionary -- tale. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 83% 84%

Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Oct 14, 2026 It is Sir Laurence Olivier whom you'll remember as a cold-lipped Crassus whose pettish pulling at his necklace hints at effeminacy while ruthlessness looks out of those foxy eyes. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 90% 87%

Neil Norman London Evening Standard Oct 14, 2026 1/5 This is a giant leap backwards. Go to Full Review Freddy vs. Jason (2003) 42% 50%

Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Oct 14, 2026 Compelled me, after one hour, to respond with the ultimate form of criticism: I did some stalking myself -- out. Go to Full Review Jason X (2002) 27% 25%

Philip Oakes London Evening Standard Oct 13, 2026 Paths of Glory is an adult, painful and absorbing film. It demands to be seen. Go to Full Review Paths of Glory (1957) 96% 95%

Alan Brien London Evening Standard Oct 13, 2026 Written and directed by Hollywood's newest miracle boy, 27-year-old Stanley Kubrick, The Killing is a fascinating exercise in criminal craftsmanship. Go to Full Review The Killing (1956) 96% 92%

Hannah Pettit London Evening Standard Oct 9, 2026 5/5 Writer-director Takashi Yamazaki has taken everything that worked so brilliantly in Minus One and turned it up by quite a few notches. Go to Full Review Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) 96% - -

Nick Howells London Evening Standard Oct 9, 2026 5/5 This is a performance of a lifetime; and one the Academy voters would need a collective bout of insanity to ignore. Go to Full Review Elsinore (2026) 88% - -

Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Oct 2, 2026 The Original “Friday the 13th” was no great shakes as horror films go, yet it has managed a part II and part III of diminishing quality, and now comes Joseph Zito’s Friday the 13th—the Final Chapter, which one can only hope is correctly titled. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) 20% 51%

Nick Howells London Evening Standard Sep 29, 2026 5/5 Audacious, risky, terrific fun and -- for at least half the planet -- the wildest ride you’ll get this year. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Milton Shulman London Evening Standard Sep 23, 2026 This comedy should delight audiences hungry for hero figures unimpressed by the rituals of cultivated society. Go to Full Review Crocodile Dundee (1986) 87% 59%

Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Sep 19, 2026 The wit... has definitely run out. Go to Full Review The First Wives Club (1996) 56% 68%

Charles Spencer London Evening Standard Sep 17, 2026 A nasty, risibly incompetent little film. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part III (1982) 17% 42%

Nick Howells London Evening Standard Aug 26, 2026 3/5 So not quite a return to form, but for Scott, now 88, this strange flight of apocalyptic fancy proves there’s plenty of bite in the old dog yet. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Aug 24, 2026 Essentially the video game on a bigger on a bigger screen than your Playstation. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2002) 36% 67%

Julian Norridge London Evening Standard Aug 24, 2026 It's tough and not always pretty; but exciting. Go to Full Review Shaft (1971) 88% 68%

Julian Norridge London Evening Standard Aug 24, 2026 The obscenity and torture are so overdone that they will either drive you from the cinema or reduce you to a state of numbness. Go to Full Review The Devils (1971) 55% 88%

Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Aug 24, 2026 The film is a garish glossary of sado-masochism. Go to Full Review The Devils (1971) 55% 88%