Crime 101
(review embargoed)
Ripping all-star heist thriller with Chris Hemsworth & Halle Berry

Goat

Smart, funny, gorgeously animated sports action starring, well, a goat

Palestine 36

Stunning adventure traces a pivotal, eerily timely moment in history

Cold Storage

Entertainingly grisly comedy with Georgina Campbell & Joe Keery

Little Amélie

Oscar-nominated French animated adventure is simply gorgeous

The President’s Cake

A young girl's adventure in Iraq is fascinating and warmly involving

Awards Mania!
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SHADOWS SWEEPSTAKES
Who should be winning this year's prizes.
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OSCAR • BAFTA • GLOBES • DORIANS
LONDON CRITICS • ONLINE CRITICS

Chris in the boss
11.FEB: Hemswirth joins Egerton & Beetz in Ross' New York underworld thriller Kockroach
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XCX, Alcock & Reedus will star in Miike's new Japanese slasher thriller
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Mackie & Stone in Mamet's PLOW
Sedgwick & Butterfield are HAPPY
Bloom joins Hawke's TRIBE thriller
Gillan, Hutcherson in BLASPHEMOUS
Rossi leads YOUNG BLOOD comedy
Sandler replaces Bale in TIME OUT
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Pedro to Mexico
8.FEB: Pascal & Ramirez will star in Haynes' romantic drama De Noche, following two men on the run.
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Cruz, Culkin, Mackey, Law & Wilson up for Meyers' new romcom
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Chastain & Pine lead PLEASURE
Cumberbatch takes LAST FLIGHT
Washington, Marsden in INNOCENT
Bonham Carter joins HOUSEKEEPER
Ejiofor & Fishburne to EXORCIST
Weisz & Macfadyen have SEANCE
Shipka & Sprouse say GOODBYE
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Brad hits the road
4.FEB: Pitt, Nicholson, Cottin & Huston lead cast of Berger's European road-trip thriller The Riders
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Diaz & Merchant will star in an Englishman-in-New York romcom
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Janney, Scott, Goth in FONDA
Banderas joins GOOD FORTUNE
Reinsve leads Payne's SOMEWHERE
Doherty & McAvoy have FAITH
Smit-McPhee joins Ritchson action
Dunster in live-action DRAGON 2
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20 Feb:
THE SECRET AGENT
IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU
A PRIVATE LIFE
WASTEMAN
KOKUHO
JIMMY AND STIGGS
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27 Feb:
SCREAM 7
HOW TO MAKE A KILLING
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
SIRAT
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL
THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
PALESTINE COMEDY CLUB
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6 Mar:
HOPPERS
THE BRIDE
THE GOOD BOY
SOUND OF FALLING
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13 Mar:
HOW TO MAKE A KILLING
ONE LAST DEAL
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
SCARLET
EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
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Rich’s Best & Worst of 2025
THE 45th SHADOWS AWARDS
More lists than you can count...

February TV Roundup
SCREEN The Beauty, Heated Rivalry, Stranger Things 5, The Night Manager 2, Wonder Man, Industry 4, more...

Married to the job
STAGE
Gecko's sparky The Wedding explores social contracts, at Sadler's East...

Tale as old as time
STAGE
Charing Cross Theatre's adult panto Beauty and the Beast until 11 Jan...

Let it all hang out
STAGE
Cheeky song and dance in Boys in the Buff, Golden Goose until 10th Jan...

The boss’ new groove
DANCE
ZooNation's dazzling hip-hop Ebony Scrooge, Sadler's East until 4 Jan...

A Victorian night out
STAGE
The Great Christmas Feast, an immersive dinner & show until 4 Jan...

Make the yuletide gay
STAGE
The Fit Prince is hilarious holiday anarchy, at King's Head until 3 Jan...

November TV Roundup
SCREEN Boots, Only Murders 5, Chad Powers, Peacemaker 2, MobLand, Morning Show 4, Alien: Earth, more...

Step back in time
STAGE
RVT panto Growled is a riotous spin on Beauty and the Beast, until 3rd Jan...

We need a little Christmas
STAGE
Brick Lane Music Hall's dinner-theatre The Magic of Christmas until 19 Dec...

Deep under the skin
DANCE
Ballet Black's darkly invlving double bill Shadows at Sadler's Wells...

Connection is the answer
DANCE
NDT & Complicite's staggering Figures in Extinction at Sadler's Wells...

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DANCE: Thikra at Sadler's Wells
STAGE: Get Down Tonight, Charing X
SEP TV: Chief of War, Wednesday...
STAGE: Ghost Stories at Peacock
Shadows @ London Film Fest
DANCE: Theatre of Dreams, Sadler's
DANCE: Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells
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The Day the Earth Blew Up

Colourful and kinetic Looney Tunes movie feels random and unfocussed

Broken Bird

Energetic concert film featuring the sensational K-pop boy band

Hamlet

Riz Ahmed stars in a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's classic

Jimpa

Warmly pointed Australian drama with Olivia Colman and John Lithgow

The Chronology of Water

Kristen Stewart's mbitiously artful debut is painterly and ingulgent

All That’s Left of You

Emotional, melodramatic epic sees Palestine's history through a family

Stray Kids: The DominATE
Experience
Energetic concert film featuring the sensational K-pop boy band

The Wrecking Crew

Jason Momoa & Dave Bautista unleash carnage in likeable romp

Kangaroo

Adorable joeys populate this charming, often silly Aussie romp

Worldbreaker

Post-apocalyptic thriller is sharply well made, but oddly underwritten

Primate

Unhinged but not very scary rabid chimp slasher horror mayhem

28 Years Later:
The Bone Temple
Nia DaCosta's gruesome, strikingly well-made bonkers horror sequel

The Rip

Deliberately gritty cop thriller with Matt Damon & Ben Affleck

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Harrowing thriller from Palestine uses real-life voice recordings

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PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION
THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER
THE HOUSEMAID
THE PLAGUE
SPONGEBOB: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
ELLA McCAY
ELEANOR THE GREAT
PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE
A FEW FEET AWAY
OH. WHAT. FUN.
MAGAZINE DREAMS
LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS
SANDBAG DAM
ZOOTOPIA 2
CHRISTY
BLUE MOON
THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE
THE CARPENTER'S SON
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My Father’s Shadow

Gorgeously observational story of two boys out with their dad in Lagos

Stitch Head

Colourful and enjoyably offbeat animated spin on Frankenstein

Pillion

Surprisingly sweet British dom-sub romance starring Alexander & Harry

Twinless

Smart, twisty comedy-drama with Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney

Scarlet

Inventively animated Japanese action fantasy is a clever riff on Hamlet

Is This Thing On?

Strikingly original true-life romcom with Will Arnett & Laura Dern

Nouvelle Vague

Linklater's skilful period-style comedy recreates the making of Breathless

Islands

Riveting Hitchcock-style mystery thriller set in the Canary Islands

7 Keys

Darkly involving British dramatic thriller mixes romance and suspense

The Love That Remains

Inventive Icelandic drama follows a broken family over a year

The History of Sound

Excellent slow-burn period drama with Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal

H Is for Hawk

Warm, involving British true story with Claire Foy and a feisty goshawk

Heavyweight

Inventive, involving British backstage boxing drama with Jordan Bolger

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NO OTHER CHOICE
RENTAL FAMILY
SOUND OF FALLING
DEAD MAN'S WIRE
A PRIVATE LIFE
HAMNET
SONG SUNG BLUE
PETER HUJAR'S DAY
MARTY SUPREME
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
THE CHORAL
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
GOODBYE JUNE
COVER-UP
LURKER
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