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Danny Leigh

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The Christophers (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “The script by Ed Solomon is quite the piece of work. Narrative cogs whirr so gracefully you don’t even notice the film explaining itself. Also — and feel free to read this as if in all caps — The Christophers is very funny. ” – Financial Times May 14, 2026 Full Review Orphan (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “The story leans on tropes even as it confronts moral knots. Still, Nemes is the rare filmmaker who deals with those at all — one unafraid of gravity in our perilously glib times.  ” – Financial Times May 14, 2026 Full Review Normal (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Kolstad’s script is clever enough to land as satire. It also makes for a cheerfully gonzo midnight movie. You laugh, you wince, you check for bloodstains on your way out.” – Financial Times May 14, 2026 Full Review Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026) 81% 3/5 EDIT “...Newman’s will to see the good in all things reads as sincere, and Field is great, approaching 80 but still gifted with zip and, when the script demands it, emotional heft.” – Financial Times May 8, 2026 Full Review Kokuho (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Honestly, Kokuho can be a slow burn. But it also has the depth of flavour you only get from a serious investment of time.” – Financial Times May 7, 2026 Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 71% 3/5 EDIT “The movie can often seem deeply self-serious. Now and then, it is also very funny. The performances are a pleasure, Coel and Hathaway giving life to characters on the brink.” – Financial Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review The Last Spy (2025) 4/5 EDIT “The Last Spy tells [Peter Sichel's] life story. It would have much to recommend it at any time. The deafening echoes in the current Middle East crisis only make it more so.” – Financial Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 39% 1/5 EDIT “Jackson bears a striking likeness to his uncle. His steps onstage are picture perfect. But nothing moves. In a film like Michael, live performance should let you see what fans see. Here, when audiences sob in ecstasy, you want to inch away in bafflement.” – Financial Times Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Rebuilding can have many meanings. Again, put like that it might seem trite, but director Max Walker-Silverman’s work is never less than gossamer subtle and starkly honest. O’Connor is terrific. LaTorre likewise. ” – Financial Times Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Glenrothan (2025) 17% 3/5 EDIT “For all the many tropes, there are clever curveballs in the sibling dynamic. And with Cox playing against type, the whole thing ends up a wry rebuke to the grim dynastic wrangling of Succession. ” – Financial Times Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 76% 3/5 EDIT “Here the musical sequences are lavish but lifeless, even with Lopez at full tilt. It is hard to picture hating this Kiss of the Spider Woman — harder still to imagine being moved by it. ” – Financial Times Apr 16, 2026 Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 47% 2/5 EDIT “The script is a clever synthesis, but to get the most from The Wizard of the Kremlin, you should ideally have first spent three decades in blissful ignorance.” – Financial Times Apr 16, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Ozon’s visual language is flawless.” – Financial Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Outcome (2026) 28% 2/5 EDIT “Whatever the right time would be for an exhausting comedy, laden with therapy-speak, about the hardships of film stardom, the current point of global distress is probably not it.” – Financial Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review California Schemin' (2025) 96% 3/5 EDIT “The movie is likeable, but spins a little wildly through its own mixed-up personas: fun-time caper; music biz cautionary tale; identity crisis psychodrama.” – Financial Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 84% 4/5 EDIT “Honestly, there is something refreshing about the lack of melodrama. ” – Financial Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Kim Novak's Vertigo (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Built around interviews at Novak’s home on the wild Oregon coast, the flow of the movie has the loosey-goosey feel of actual conversation. What emerges most clearly is endurance. ” – Financial Times Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Fuze (2025) 73% 3/5 EDIT “Much about what ensues is cheerfully hokey. ...But there is also a real joie de vivre to how Mackenzie and writer Ben Hopkins contrive twist after twist, making actors and genres collide as if playing with mismatched action figures.  ” – Financial Times Apr 2, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% 2/5 EDIT “With giddy glee, Borgli is testing our discomfort with the taboo he drops into the heart of his film. Yet he also seems sure you will think The Drama (almost) as brilliant as he does. ” – Financial Times Apr 1, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 44% 2/5 EDIT “The movie isn’t terrible. (It is also a long way from good.) Mostly, it is a headscratcher: pieces from different puzzles it was clearly hoped would simply, seamlessly fit together. Spoiler alert: they don’t.” – Financial Times Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Director Mascha Schilinski’s jagged, heady film is a dark collage of girlhood through time, most clearly held together by a setting in the same farmhouse in Altmark, north-east Germany.” – Financial Times Mar 9, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 4/5 EDIT “If it sounds like 15 movies at once, that is how it plays. Both cranked very high indeed, Buckley and Bale seem to be sharing a private game of anything-you-can-do.” – Financial Times Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Nuance is not the film’s game. But there is also real conviction to the blur of wartime history, family melodrama, raw Shakespearean heft and mystical woo-woo. ” – Financial Times Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “The movie is invested with care and energy, sprinkled with gags and neat flights of fancy. ” – Financial Times Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Sirāt makes a ticklish presence in Oscar conversations: it has the flavour of a cult film, a grimy gatecrasher among the tuxedos. And yet this isn’t the trippy sprawl of another generation’s midnight movie. ” – Financial Times Feb 26, 2026 Full Review
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