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F1 (2025) Review – Fast Cars, Familiar Course
In one sentence: F1 follows an ageing racing driver who is lured back onto the Formula One circuit to help rescue a struggling team, forcing him to confront his past, his limitations and a fiercely competitive young teammate. Summer blockbusters are not typically the Academy’s favourites, but perhaps the tides are beginning to turn. With…
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Sinners (2025) Review – Monsters, Men and Moral Reckoning
In one sentence: Sinners follows twin brothers who return to 1930s Mississippi to open a blues bar, only to find themselves trapped overnight when a group of vampires seek entry, turning a place of refuge into a desperate fight for survival. It is not often that a horror film performs strongly at the Oscars, let…
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Sentimental Value (2026) Review – A Quiet Study of Love, Loss and Legacy
In one sentence: Sentimental Value follows a troubled theatre actress forced to confront her past when her estranged filmmaker father returns home with a deeply personal script that reopens old wounds. Joachim Trier joins forces with Renate Reinsve once again after The Worst Person in the World in another gentle but powerful film about relationship…
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Bugonia (2025) Review – Paranoia Has a Sting
In one sentence: Bugonia follows two conspiracy-obsessed cousins who kidnap a powerful tech CEO, convinced she is an alien intent on wiping out humanity. In an effort to watch all of this year’s Oscar-nominated films, I found myself reluctantly sitting down to a Yorgos Lanthimos movie. I have struggled with his work in the past,…
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Blue Moon (2025) Review – Watching Success From the Sidelines
In one sentence: Set over the opening night of Oklahoma!, Blue Moon follows lyricist, Lorenz Hart, as he spends a lonely evening in a hotel bar reckoning with professional displacement and unrequited love. Most people are familiar with Rodgers & Hammerstein, the legendary composer–lyricist duo behind The Sound of Music, The King and I and…
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Die My Love (2025) Review – A Portrait of Postpartum Descent
In one sentence: Die My Love presents a new mother’s descent into postnatal depression and psychosis that is intensified by isolation, dislocation and the emotional fallout of motherhood. We are often told that becoming a mother is transformative in the best possible way, but cinema rarely explores what happens when that transformation is destructive rather…
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One Battle After Another (2025) Review – Revolution Without Rest
In one sentence: One Battle After Another follows a former revolutionary forced back into conflict when the past he tried to escape comes violently for his daughter. Cinema often treats conflict as something external, a battle to be fought and resolved, but One Battle After Another is more interested in conflict as a way of…
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Hamnet (2026) Review – A Raw Meditation on Grief
In one sentence: Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s best selling novel, Hamnet explores the impact of the death of Shakespeare’s young son and how this loss was transformed into art through grief, memory and loss. Often we watch films hoping to be surprised, but Hamnet is not interested in twists. Its power lies instead in emotional…
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Jay Kelly (2025) Review – All the Right Faces, Not Quite the Right Film
In one sentence: Jay Kelly is a star-studded character study that examines fame and the tension between public success and personal fulfilment. Netflix’s latest release, Jay Kelly is brimming with household names, but raises a familiar question: is star power alone enough to create a compelling film? Noah Baumbach’s latest effort suggests not. George Clooney…
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After the Hunt (2025) Review – A Tangle of Ethics, Power and Unanswered Questions
In one sentence: After the Hunt is a character-driven drama that explores ethics and power dynamics in the wake of a sexual assault allegation. After the Hunt recently arrived on Amazon Prime. I should preface this review by admitting that Luca Guadagnino’s films have never quite been to my taste. The most enjoyable for me…
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