The Times (UK)

David Robinson The Times (UK) 5 days ago The story is nothing... The telling is all. Go to Full Review Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) 92% 80%

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 6 days ago 4/5 The skill of the directors means they still shape the movie’s cowabunga dream of the wilderness as a thrill ride. Yet its really gripping nature emerges in the painful cracks, and the sense that death has finally undone them all and made everything small. Go to Full Review Everest: The Other Side (2026) 77% - -

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh The Times (UK) Oct 28, 2026 5/5 The characters are well drawn, the violence stabs home and the whodunnit keeps you guessing. Whip-smart and properly scary, it’s still a scream. Go to Full Review Scream (1996) 78% 84%

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh The Times (UK) Oct 28, 2026 4/5 I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 99% - -

Ed Potton The Times (UK) Oct 27, 2026 4/5 We are in the realms of a Jumanji-style body-swap comedy, although in many scenes the actors who play the ghosts portray the characters they possess... Some have found that confusing but it worked for me and has obvious comedy value. Go to Full Review - - - -

Ed Potton The Times (UK) Oct 22, 2026 4/5 The plot of the film is shamelessly flimsy and not all of the gags land, but when they do, they are hilarious. Go to Full Review Ali G: Who Iz I? (2026) 39% - -

Ed Potton The Times (UK) Oct 21, 2026 3/5 The British leads are impressive, Harries channelling Demi Moore in The Substance, Ackie the biotech renegade Elizabeth Holmes, and there is a knowing cameo from Rob Brydon as a smarmy talk show host. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 19, 2026 2/5 Much of the movie, alas, is tonally uncertain and Eisenberg, whose direction in A Real Pain was utterly assured, mostly delivers a faltering mishmash, part backstage pillory, part Lynchian nightmare, part luvvie life lesson. Go to Full Review The Debut (2026) 91% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 16, 2026 3/5 King remains strangely compelling throughout, though, somehow acting and yet not acting, and acting and yet not acting. Go to Full Review The Influencer Project (2026) 40% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 16, 2026 4/5 It’s hugely provocative and a disturbing account. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 16, 2026 5/5 Dracula is back, and this time he’s bloodier, or redder, than ever. Go to Full Review Horror of Dracula (1958) 89% 81%

Ed Potton The Times (UK) Oct 16, 2026 4/5 Come for the demons, stay for the touching portrait of adolescent friendship. Go to Full Review Forgotten Island (2026) 95% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 15, 2026 1/5 It’s a hopeless film, slippery and mendacious, full of gross Hallmark sentiment, and has been bettered by a myriad of previous robot companion flicks. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 26% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 15, 2026 2/5 Though the movie, unlike, say, Gravity, consistently side-steps actual scientific analysis of Jay’s situation, the increasing sense that we’re being served up utter hogwash only underscores the movie’s status as a lazy, bad-faith gesture. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 15, 2026 1/5 The direction from Kitao Sakurai is frenetic and meaningless, and the fight scenes (the film’s raison d’être, surely?) are bafflingly dull. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 13, 2026 4/5 Delivers a detailed, strictly chronological account of the progress of OpenAI. Go to Full Review Artificial (2026) 95% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 9, 2026 3/5 The pacing is often thrilling, and the depiction of the King’s council is suitably boo-hiss repellent — step forward Tom Hollander as the treasurer Robert Hales. Go to Full Review The Uprising (2026) 57% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 9, 2026 4/5 How good is Olivia Colman? The 52-year-old best actress Oscar winner is so good that she single-handedly elevates this “quirky medieval romp” into unexpected, even undeserved, places. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 9, 2026 2/5 Too often this feels like a home movie, or cosy clips montage, for family members only. Go to Full Review The Yellow Tie (2025) - - - -

Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 9, 2026 4/5 The power of the film is mostly carried in the intensely wounded reaction shots of Dolan. She's a gifted and chameleonic performer. Go to Full Review The Lost Children Of Tuam (2026) 100% - -