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Obsession (2025) 94% EDIT “Obsession initially seems simplistic, and even a bit silly, in its rehash of the age-old monkey’s paw trope. Like the consequences of that ill-considered wish, however, it proves eerily hard to shake.” – Variety May 14, 2026 Full Review A Hero (2021) 97% EDIT “Asghar Farhadi returns to Iran for a typically stoic moral drama centring on fraught entanglements of finance and family – and a media desperate for feelgood stories. ” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review The Story of My Wife (2021) 29% EDIT “Three hours is a long time to explain why straight men don’t make happy sea captains, but it’s one thing Enyedi’s luscious, lulling film does with some clarity. ” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Nagi Notes (2026) 94% EDIT “Conflict courses through Koji Fukada‘s subtly stirring new film to increasingly urgent, disquieting effect, raising the human stakes of polite everyday exchanges and encounters.” – Variety May 13, 2026 Full Review A Woman's Life (2026) 94% EDIT “The film reinvents no wheels but its details are specific and rewarding.” – Variety May 13, 2026 Full Review Butterfly Jam (2026) 56% EDIT “Butterfly Jam is most rewarding at its most relaxed, when Balagov’s flair for movement, ambience and particularity of place is most generously on display, in tandem with “Nickel Boys” DP Jomo Fray’s propulsive camerawork.” – Variety May 13, 2026 Full Review Is God Is (2026) 97% EDIT “Both wildly entertaining and viciously upsetting, this remarkable debut boldly reaps what others have sown.” – Variety May 11, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% EDIT “None of the stars here is slacking, and their combined, easily resumed chemistry ensures that this sequel, for good long stretches, feels like old times -- even if it’s hard to imagine fans of its predecessor cherishing repeat viewings.” – Variety Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Apex (2026) 66% EDIT “You won’t remember it long after the credits roll, but it’s a happy throwback to a time when more junk-food cinema got to look and sound and feel this good, albeit on a far bigger canvas.” – Variety Apr 27, 2026 Full Review The Sheep Detectives (2026) 94% EDIT “There’s wisdom amid the silliness, as the story gently makes a case for the necessity of grief, mindfulness and mortal awareness... That’s more than you might expect from a film called The Sheep Detectives.” – Variety Apr 27, 2026 Full Review Variations on a Theme (2026) EDIT “The film belongs to Farmer, Jacobs’ own grandmother, who gives Hettie an unfussy sturdiness of mien and spirit to counter the growing, sighing frailty of her person, and a steady, narrow stare that occasionally seems to see through time..” – Variety Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 46% EDIT “Brashly violent, clattery and pleasingly untied to any direct predecessor, the result is more generic than its braggy auteur claims might promise, but there’s a lot here for gorehounds to feast on.” – Variety Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Balls Up (2026) 23% EDIT “A mostly pretty innocuous affair, it’s neither good nor bad to any memorable degree, not as riotous as it could have been but not devoid of low-hanging laughs either. It is, in other words, a down-the-middle streaming comedy.” – Variety Apr 15, 2026 Full Review Outcome (2026) 28% EDIT “It’s hard to imagine this mumbling, shambling man holding multiplex masses in his thrall. As such, he’s a poignant void, but a void nonetheless, and even at a slim 84 minutes, Hill’s doleful film can’t keep us interested in his plight.” – Variety Apr 14, 2026 Full Review You, Me & Tuscany (2026) 66% EDIT “At nearly every turn, this duly sun-soaked but canned-feeling exercise serves to illustrate just how hard it is to pull off an airy bauble like “Under the Tuscan Sun” or “While You Were Sleeping.”” – Variety Apr 9, 2026 Full Review The Peril at Pincer Point (2026) EDIT “Either a satire or a celebration of independent filmmaking at its most impractically intrepid, this microbudget curio wears a hotchpotch of influences on its stained, frayed sleeve, but still maintains its own perverse, peculiar voice.” – Variety Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Mr. Burton (2025) 93% EDIT “It’s a little disappointing that “Mr. Burton” remains so coy around Philip’s inner life and yearnings, though Jones’s graceful, precise performance in nuanced in its unspoken implications.” – Variety Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Pizza Movie (2026) 79% EDIT ““Pizza Movie” is disposable, practically by design, but it may have happened upon a comic duo worth reteaming.” – Variety Mar 14, 2026 Full Review The Education of Jane Cumming (2026) EDIT “The result is easily the most satisfying screen outing yet for this story material: a classically well-made and affectingly performed period drama.” – Variety Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Flies (2026) EDIT “If “Flies” is familiar in many senses, it’s too warmly and honestly felt to feel formulaic, and while its young lead Bastian Escobar is winsome as can be, the film is colored by a deeper melancholy that staves off cutesiness.” – Variety Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 90% EDIT ““The Immortal Man” serves as a handsome reminder of what always felt quite cinematic about the series -- both in its beefy-but-pulpy storytelling and its robust, well-patinated production values.” – Variety Mar 5, 2026 Full Review An American Pastoral (2024) 100% EDIT “Edler’s calmly watchful film trusts in viewers to see the national forest for the trees.” – Variety Feb 26, 2026 Full Review A Child of My Own (2026) EDIT “As the film works toward a concluding note of uplift that brings as many questions as answers, one wonders if a straighter documentary telling would be more rewarding.” – Variety Feb 23, 2026 Full Review The Blood Countess (2026) 83% EDIT “It’s more or less a one-joke enterprise -- but when said joke is casting a maximally domineering Isabelle Huppert as a hungry, horny, haute couture-inclined incarnation of Báthory, there’s a devoted audience for whom it will go very far indeed.” – Variety Feb 19, 2026 Full Review We Are All Strangers (2026) 83% EDIT “The film is consistently involving and finally moving, sparked especially by Chen regular Yeo Yann Yann’s wonderful performance as an immigrant outsider in this family and society alike.” – Variety Feb 19, 2026 Full Review
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