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Review

Despicable Me 4 review – a paper-thin fourquel

by David Jenkins

Another chunk of glossy, silly content rolls out for the Steve Carell-fronted behemoth animation franchise.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

MaXXXine review – it kinda suxxx

by David Jenkins

Mia Goth’s porn starlet cleans up her CV with a bloody vengeance in this underwhelming and overreaching horror threequel.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

by David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Review

Hounds – This contrived crime story outstays its welcome

by David Jenkins

Two bumbling hoods in Casablanca are charged with disposing of a corpse in Kamal Lazraq’s disappointing thriller.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

Sasquatch Sunset – Gross-out larks with an anthropological twist

by David Jenkins

A family of mythical beasts are observed in their natural habitat in comic portrait of animals and their instincts.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 review – witless nonsense

by David Jenkins

Another unwatchable slasher dirge from the IP graverobbers behind 2023’s unlikely cause célèbre.

1
Anticipation
1
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
Review

The Dead Don’t Hurt review – elegiac and tenderly romantic

by David Jenkins

Viggo Mortensen’s sombre take on the western evokes some classic Clint Eastwood films.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Festivals

Grand Tour – first-look review

by David Jenkins

A visually ravishing if emotionally and thematically opaque travelogue is the latest from Portuguese maestro, Miguel Gomes.
Review

The Garfield Movie review – as messy as a child eating spaghetti

by David Jenkins

Another lacklustre animated foray into the lasagne-smeared world of Jim Davis’ most famous comic creation.

2
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
Festivals

The Shrouds – first-look review

by David Jenkins

David Cronenberg’s melancholy exploration of how we retain our connection with the dead makes for one of his most beautiful love stories.

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