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Nicholas Barber BBC.com Oct 15, 2026 2/5 Despite its fire-and-brimstone title, in other words, The Social Reckoning doesn't have much of a reckoning. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Nicholas Barber BBC.com Sep 29, 2026 4/5 When Cruise is clambering all over the set, delivering thunderous lectures on the oil industry, I couldn't help grinning at the gargantuan scale of his performance, the conviction of the script's grim environmental message, and Iñárritu's antic style. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Nicholas Barber BBC.com Sep 5, 2026 5/5 The key could be that Pattinson never asks us to sympathise with the character. In fact, he seems happy for us to loathe him. But it's a pleasure to watch him, anyway. This is the best performance yet from the most intriguing actor of his generation. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Caryn James BBC.com Jul 15, 2026 Oppenheimer, with its singular focus, is still Nolan's most perfectly wrought film. But even with its flaws, The Odyssey is so rich, so full of magic and humanity, that I'm eager to see this epic again. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Nicholas Barber BBC.com Jun 9, 2026 2/5 A flimsy, outdated car-chase thriller with no ideas about aliens that we haven't heard before. Go to Full Review Disclosure Day (2026) 79% - -

Scott Bryan BBC.com Jun 2, 2026 Not a Must Watch It’s maybe about a year, two years too late, you're wondering what else we are learning here that we haven't been taught before. Go to Full Review Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) 76% - -

Nicholas Barber BBC.com May 19, 2026 4/5 One of the most expensive Korean films ever made, it races from modern-day western to action thriller to horror film to science-fiction epic – all while retaining the full-throttle energy and sweaty cult-movie atmosphere of a 1970s exploitation flick. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 80% - -

Almar Haflidason BBC.com Apr 30, 2026 3/5 Made in 1974, this effective Canadian stalk'n'slash movie mixes dark humour with sinister tension. Go to Full Review Black Christmas (1974) 74% 76%

Nicholas Barber BBC.com Apr 21, 2026 1/5 The functional dialogue has all the nuance of a road sign, and the visuals are so lacking in flair that even the reconstructions of Jackson's groundbreaking videos and concerts are a snooze. Go to Full Review Michael (2025) 38% - -

Scott Bryan BBC.com Mar 11, 2026 Must Watch Who would have thought that one of the best things they could have done is just do The Muppet Show again. Go to Full Review The Muppet Show (2026) 98% - -

Nicholas Barber BBC.com Mar 10, 2026 4/5 With a leading man, Ryan Gosling, who can't resist showing off his goofball charm and all-round Kenergy, Project Hail Mary is surprisingly shiny and fun for a story about the potential extinction of the human race. Go to Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% - -

Caryn James BBC.com Mar 4, 2026 4/5 At times it's as if the film itself was stitched together from the parts of other movies, but collecting all those bits and pieces is a sign of Gyllenhaal's huge scope and ambition. Go to Full Review The Bride! (2026) 57% - -

Hugh Montgomery BBC.com Feb 18, 2026 4/5 ...with its highly privileged social milieu and chic interiors, At the Sea could be caricatured as another "rich people have problems too" drama. But the depth of feeling in Adams' characterisation of Laura taps into something much more universal. Go to Full Review At the Sea (2026) 32% - -

Hugh Montgomery BBC.com Feb 18, 2026 4/5 [The film] should have you searching out Evans's music if you didn't know it before: we may only hear relatively brief snatches of it, but it's no slur on the film to suggest its piercing intimacy is the single most hypnotic thing here. Go to Full Review Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) 100% - -

Caryn James BBC.com Feb 9, 2026 4/5 If you embrace the film's audacious style and think of it as a reinvention not an adaptation, this bold, artful Wuthering Heights is utterly absorbing. Go to Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% - -

Almar Haflidason BBC.com Jan 15, 2026 4/5 A true sci-fi classic, the intelligent and thought-provoking "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is now restored on a beautiful new DVD release. Go to Full Review The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 92% 87%

Nicholas Barber BBC.com Dec 16, 2025 1/5 197 minutes of screensaver graphics, clunky dialogue, baggy plotting and hippy-dippy new-age spirituality. It's terrifying to think that Cameron still has two more sequels scheduled. Go to Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% - -

Nicholas Barber BBC.com Dec 2, 2025 2/5 It's true that many viewers have already fallen under its spell, but Zhao and O'Farrell have stripped away so much of what makes the novel magical...that what's left is no more profound or authentic than any other costume drama set in ye olde days. Go to Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% - -

Caryn James BBC.com Dec 1, 2025 4/5 Marty Supreme is as fresh, funny and exhilarating to watch as its hero. It's worth being bombarded by merch and giant orange heads. Go to Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% - -

Caryn James BBC.com Nov 18, 2025 4/5 This film is as slick and shiny as Glinda's lip gloss, but it may also be just what its many fans want. Go to Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% - -