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Sketch Review

SKETCH is set in present-day America. The story is about the Wyatt family who live in a small town. It focusses on siblings Amber (Bianca Belle) and J...

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The Naked Gun Review

In a cinematic landscape flooded with nostalgia-driven reboots, The Naked Gun (2025) is hoping to manage the rare feat of feeling both fresh and faith...

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Superman Review

James Gunn brings a new iteration of Superman to our screens this week, and is hoping for it to be the bold, refreshing start to a new era of DC Unive...

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A Nice Indian Boy Review

Rom-coms are back, and they’re better than ever. The once cliché-ridden genre, popular only with hopeless romantics and teenage girls, gets a much nee...

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Jurassic World Rebirth Review

If you grew up in the ’90s, Jurassic Park (1993) probably left eternal claw marks on you. Maybe you saw it at the cinema, maybe you wore out your VHS ...

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F1 Review

F1: The Movie has started revving its engine, ready to race into cinemas this week. With director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) and legendary pr...

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28 Years Later Review

It has been 28 (film) years since the rage virus spread from a lab monkey to humans, creating vicious and violent zombie-like creatures to roam the UK...

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Dangerous Animals Review

Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne is obsessed with obsession. From the power drill wielding Lola in his masterful feature debut The Loved Ones to Tucker...

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Ballerina Review

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina is the latest chapter in the ever-expanding John Wick universe. The action/thriller stars Ana De Armas as fresh...

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The Phoenician Scheme Review

I confess: Wes Anderson films have never really done it for me. His cinema feels more architectural than visceral—films that seem made by and for the ...

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Review

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the latest and (supposedly) final entry in the long-running espionage film series, with an impressi...

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The Surfer Review

Nicholas Cage (Mandy, P I G) returns to cinema screens this week with The Surfer, directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium). In short, the film is a stra...

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The Accountant 2 Review

After nearly a decade of waiting, the highly anticipated sequel to 2016’s The Accountant has finally arrived. Director Gavin O’Connor (The Accountant)...

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Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up Review

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is the latest cinematic release from Warner Brothers, featuring the timeless Looney Tunes. With a lega...

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Spit Review

David Wenham (Fake, Seachange) and Jonathon Teplitzky (Churchill, The Railway Man) reunite to deliver a Spitieri-centric Aussie crime comedy. Followin...

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Hard Truths Review

Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Fatman, The Sea Beast) effortlessly portrays a woman on the edge of an emotional breakdown. However, Mike Leigh’s Hard T...

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I’m Still Here Review

Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui) isn’t just a film; it’s an emotional gut-punch, a reckoning with Brazil’s unhealed wounds through the...

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The Last Journey Review

In The Last Journey (Den sista resan), Swedish TV duo Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson embark on a road trip to the south of France, documenting Fi...

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Bird Review

Life ain’t always empty. Few directors capture working-class life as authentically as Andrea Arnold. Arnold is one of a very few class-conscious direc...