Baato review – Nepal’s past and future collide in an immersive, fraught documentary ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
The Virgin Suicides review – Sofia Coppola’s enigmatic debut is blissfully strange and sad ★★★★☆ By Steph Green
Oppenheimer review – relentlessly gripping and gargantuan account about the weight of genius ★★★★☆ By Tom Barnard
Iraq’s Invisible Beauty review – moving but scrappy look at a photographer and his flailing home country ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Barbie review – Ryan Gosling steals the show in Greta Gerwig’s hilarious and profoundly pink spin on the iconic toy ★★★★☆ By Jack Blackwell
My Name is Alfred Hitchcock review – mischievous grappling with a legendary filmography ★★★★☆ By Tom Barnard
The Deepest Breath review – fascinating but muddled look at one of the world’s most extreme sports ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Medusa review – surreal Brazilian protest film is a strange but unwieldy political object ★★☆☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) review – incredibly fun tour through rock and art history ★★★★☆ By Jack Blackwell
While We Watched review – electric account of what it means to be in the eye of a raging storm ★★★☆☆ By Fedor Tot
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review – Tom Cruise delivers yet another exhilarating ode to tangible cinema ★★★★★ By Tom Barnard
Insidious: The Red Door review – horror sequel is more frustrating than frightening ★★☆☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Elemental review – Pixar’s first real love story is charming but a little derivative ★★★☆☆ By Jack Backwell
Smoking Causes Coughing review – Quentin Dupieux pulls off another smart-stupid satire ★★★★☆ By Fedor Tot
The Damned Don’t Cry review – a mature Moroccan drama that lacks light and shade ★★★☆☆ By Steph Green
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars review – Bowie concert re-release is an extraordinary time at the movies ★★★★★ By Jack Blackwell
La Syndicaliste review – Isabelle Huppert powers a shockingly bleak true story of corruption ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken review – sweet and breezy, though haven’t we seen this before? ★★★☆☆ By Barry Levitt
Hello, Bookstore review – cheerful documentary about a beloved local bookseller ★★★★☆ By Jack Blackwell
The Last Rider review – fun cycling doc might have been better suited to a biopic ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
The Super 8 Years review – astonishing diary film knits together the personal and political ★★★★☆ By Fedor Tot
The Flash review – run away as fast as you can from the worst superhero film since Morbius ★☆☆☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
You Can Live Forever review – compassionate performances save an overly predictable tale of first love ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Pretty Red Dress review – Alexandra Burke shines in an all-too-neat look at Black identity ★★★☆☆ By Fedor Tot
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts review – insulting franchise reboot is the M&M’s World of movies ★☆☆☆☆ By Adam Solomons
Hairspray review – John Waters’ musical finds just the right balance of kitsch and sincerity ★★★★☆ By Fedor Tot
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse review – web-swinging sequel is out of this world ★★★★★ By Jordan King
The Old Man Movie: Lactopalypse! review – berserk stop-motion comedy is a laugh riot ★★★★☆ By Fedor Tot
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review – serviceable sequel is digging in the wrong place ★★★☆☆ By Tom Barnard
Hypnotic review review – slice of Nolan-esque hokum is too twisty for its own good ★★☆☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
The Little Mermaid review – watery remake is an artless deluge of corporate sludge ★☆☆☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Inland Empire review – David Lynch’s nightmare fuel masterpiece returns to stalk cinemas ★★★★★ By Fedor Tot
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret review – lovably bouncy adaptation of an iconic novel ★★★★☆ By Jack Blackwell
Fast X review – a relentless, ludicrous, and eventually exhausting tenth instalment ★★☆☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie review – a touching and fittingly frenetic biography ★★★★☆ By Jack Blackwell
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 review – a perfect ending for Marvel’s goofiest superheroes ★★★★☆ By Mireia Mullor
Little Richard: I Am Everything review – admirable reckoning with an immense musical legacy ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Young Soul Rebels review – story of a young, Black, queer London still feels revolutionary ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
How to Blow Up a Pipeline review – eco-terrorism drama is as exciting and radical as its title implies ★★★★☆ By Jack Blackwell
Missing review – absurd tech thriller offers some enjoyably empty cinematic calories ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Three Colours: Red review – Kieślowski’s trilogy capper seals his place in cinema history ★★★★★ By Adam Solomons
Loving Highsmith review – mostly generic love letter to a more complicated subject ★★★☆☆ By Jasmine Valentine
Cairo Conspiracy review – religion and politics collide in a thrilling Egyptian noir ★★★★☆ By Jack Blackwell
Three Colours: White review – underrated black comedy could be the best of the trilogy ★★★★★ By Adam Solomons
Riotsville, U.S.A. review – extraordinary archive doc lays bare the riot-torn 60s ★★★★☆ By Savina Petkova
Three Colours: Blue review – Krzysztof Kieślowski’s morose yet optimistic masterwork ★★★★★ By Adam Solomons
The Night of the 12th review – compelling police procedural plays like a French Memories of Murder ★★★★☆ By Jack Blackwell
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman review – pleasant but empty Haruki Murakami animation ★★☆☆☆ By Fedor Tot
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves review – fun and flippant fantasy jaunt ★★★★☆ By Steph Green
A Compassionate Spy review – story of a Manhattan Project scientist offers disturbing insights ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future review – magical realist fable climbs to a superb peak ★★★★☆ By Fedor Tot
The Beasts review – tense, terrifying drama of xenophobia in the Spanish countryside ★★★☆☆ By Savina Petkova
Shazam! Fury of the Gods review – DC sequel makes an uncompelling case for its own existence ★★☆☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
The Age of Innocence review – Scorsese’s “violent” period drama is a thing of lavish excellence ★★★★☆ By Fedor Tot
Winners review – likeable love letter to Iranian cinema is too reverent for its own good ★★★☆☆ By Fedor Tot
Plan 75 review – uneven exploration of ageism brings the future to the present ★★★☆☆ By Jasmine Valentine
Charcoal review – a family takes in a mob boss in an accomplished crime debut ★★★☆☆ By Jack Blackwell
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom review – gentle if obvious ode to the power of education ★★★☆☆ By Anna McKibbin
