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Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) 6 days ago 2/5 It wouldn’t be fair to describe the film as a missed opportunity. It’s more a disaster only narrowly averted. Go to Full Review Ali G: Who Iz I? (2026) 48% - -

Robbie Collin Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 21, 2026 4/5 It cannot be overstated how much fun it is to soak up a film like this on what feels like its creators’ largely unhindered terms. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 75% - -

Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2026 2/5 What worked well enough as a stage monologue is musty and stumped as a piece of cinema. Go to Full Review Prima Facie (2026) 29% - -

Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2026 4/5 For some, Behemoth! may feel like a rocky road to nowhere, but Gilroy’s wit and wordplay do a lot to enliven the journey. Go to Full Review Behemoth! (2026) 87% - -

Robbie Collin Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2026 5/5 Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial is the scariest thing you will see in the cinema this year. Go to Full Review Artificial (2026) 95% - -

Robbie Collin Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2026 5/5 You are watching a woman who can’t act being played by a woman who very much can, and the result is as psychologically scrambling as it is spiritually elating. Go to Full Review The Debut (2026) 90% - -

Robbie Collin Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2026 5/5 Forgotten Island is a tornado-in-a-sweet-shop of a film -- mixing, matching and clashing together different visual tones and styles with thrilling assuredness, to wring as much fun, excitement and emotion as possible from every frame. Go to Full Review Forgotten Island (2026) 95% - -

Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2026 4/5 Tender Loving Care is one of the warmest films he has ever made -- a testament to how much community matters, packing in a sincere plea not to let the excluded fall between the cracks. Go to Full Review Tender Loving Care (2026) 100% - -

Robbie Collin Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2026 4/5 This cool-eyed documentary from that country’s investigative journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor pries apart those four seemingly inconspicuous letters and picks through everything they were designed to enclose. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2026 4/5 You could be moved by it without even knowing why. Go to Full Review A Long Winter (2026) 78% - -

Victoria Mather Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 20, 2026 As one would expect from Kubrick, he uses violence with terrifying intelligence rather than splat-bang sensationalism. If you have to see a Vietnam film this is it. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Patrick Gibbs Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 19, 2026 Even the writers of Stanley Kubrick's publicity admit his last film, Barry Lyndon, of 1975, to have been "a failure of energy." How, I wonder, will they describe the failure of his new film The Shining, for failure it certainly seems to me. Go to Full Review The Shining (1980) 75% 90%

Patrick Gibbs Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 19, 2026 The impression left is of much self-confidence, indeed exuberance, in handling the serious subject, but little sense of taste. Go to Full Review A Clockwork Orange (1971) 83% 93%

Eric Shorter Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 15, 2026 Mr. Nabokov's screen play offers more than a glimmer of the book's style: and to enliven things there is Peter Sellers as the much-disguised Quilty in comic pursuit of the guilty couple. Mr. Sellers is always a delight. Go to Full Review Lolita (1962) 83% 84%

Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 15, 2026 1/5 Ishiguro’s thoughts on the ever-evolving relationship between technology and humanity are tossed away like so much thematic confetti. It’s hard to fathom what Waititi thought he was doing in playing things for laughs. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 25% - -

Robbie Collin Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 14, 2026 4/5 There is a warm physicality – even a slink – to the character animation that is increasingly rare in CG: Rockwell’s Ray exerts an authentic, crumpled attraction. Go to Full Review Ray Gunn (2026) 94% - -

Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 14, 2026 Ronny Yu drives between poles in this, failing to make Freddy's showmanship much fun, but turning strong, silent-type Jason into a curiously endearing figure. Go to Full Review Freddy vs. Jason (2003) 42% 50%

Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 14, 2026 It isn't scary. Go to Full Review Jason X (2002) 27% 25%

Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 14, 2026 3/5 This outlandishly gross, fitfully gripping survival thriller is probably best watched on an empty stomach (or one lined with a beer or two) -- otherwise there’s a high chance you’d revisit your lunch before it’s over. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 73% - -

Patrick Gibbs Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 14, 2026 I would have watched willingly, even for three hours, Mr. Ustinov thus creating character where none exists. Go to Full Review Spartacus (1960) 90% 87%