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Fatima (2020) 58% EDIT “Marco Pontecorvo tells the story of a 1917 Marian apparition in Portugal from the believer’s point of view, but neglects its historical context. ” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review F9 The Fast Saga (2021) 59% EDIT “The image you’ll take away from this isn’t the car in space but a tiny moment as Brewster smiles when something goes right.” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Freaky (2020) 84% EDIT “The stars enjoy themselves hugely as the mixed-up antagonists.” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Black Widow (2021) 79% EDIT “Vehicle chases wreak havoc on busy Hungarian streets, a mid-film set-piece is stronger than the overfamiliar climax, and wildly fantastical elements don’t quite gel with the generally sombre, low-key, scruffy tone of the personal story.” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Old (2021) 50% EDIT “Old is at least as much black comedy as horror.” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Settlers (2021) 58% EDIT “Settlers leaves many plot point events off screen to concentrate on the daily struggle, which makes it perhaps too dour for its own good. ” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review The Suicide Squad (2021) 90% EDIT “Director James Gunn takes the helm for a playful and occasionally gory sub-franchise outing that wears its comic book roots on its sleeve. ” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review Boys from County Hell (2020) 83% EDIT “The savvy hero has learned from bitter experience that the business about vampires dissolving at dawn was “invented by some German director 20 years after the book was written” but a workable new set of rules for the arch-fiend has been written.” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review Shrek (2001) 88% EDIT “Based on a children’s book by William Steig, Shrek is a film of marvels if not quite a marvellous film. ” – Sight & Sound May 12, 2026 Full Review Mortal Kombat II (2026) 65% 3/5 EDIT “Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mortal Kombat (1995) was one of the better game-to-film efforts and Simon McQuoid here delivers the best MK movie since then. This is almost entirely down to Karl Urban, who is a hoot as Johnny Cage.” – SciFiNow May 6, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Hokum isn’t just hokum. On top of an affecting personal quest for a non-despairing ending, it delivers a full evening of scares, chills, wicked jokes and haunted escape-room hijinks.” – Empire Magazine May 1, 2026 Full Review Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 46% 3/5 EDIT “The Mummy is intensely acted (Costa, especially, is outstanding) and has startling and original moments -- a gambit with granny’s false teeth is one of the biggest shocks of the year. ” – SciFiNow Apr 23, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “Undertone tackles a lot of material, not all of which it can fully explore. That its stories unfold in bits and pieces (with drop-outs and ellipses) makes it an unnerving experience.” – SciFiNow Apr 8, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 65% 3/5 EDIT “For a wall-to-wall splatterfest, this is a feel-good picture. It doesn’t outstay its welcome, but there is an ever-so-slight sag an hour in when the repetitive fights become numbing.” – SciFiNow Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 81% 4/5 EDIT “A clever, funny, suspenseful, interestingly cynical science-fiction horror movie with a great collection of monsters — courtesy of make-up geniuses Dave and Lou Elsey — and a cast whose enthusiasm is, appropriately, infectious.” – Empire Magazine Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 3/4 EDIT “Okay, so it’s Cujo with a chimp and a pool instead of a dog and a car – but Primate delivers good, gruesome business and has a sense of fun. Solid horror hokum.” – Empire Magazine Feb 2, 2026 Full Review House (1985) 49% 2/5 EDIT “House cops out like too many 80s horror movies by sending itself up all the time.” – Empire Magazine Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The Magnificent Seven (1960) 93% 5/5 EDIT “...The Magnificent Seven was the beginning of a trend to which we owe Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars...” – Empire Magazine Jan 14, 2026 Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% EDIT “...A Few Good Men seems a transparent rewrite of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, with Jack Nicholson as a Captain Queeg whose crime is the brand of unofficial initiative-taking usually seen as a positive trait in films about the military.” – Sight & Sound Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% 5/5 EDIT “Perfect example of the Noir genre replete with shadowy stylistic visuals and rotten but charming characters.” – Empire Magazine Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) 54% EDIT “This spectacle fully embraces the toddler-tantrum-on-a-colossal-scale aesthetic and is winning because of rather than despite its essential goofiness.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) 80% EDIT “An inspired reworking, and Durand’s delighted reading of the role of grandiose star turned villain invests this paradoxical epic – in the end, it’s a small story with planetary significance literally as an aside – with humour and horror in equal measure.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review In Flames (2023) 96% EDIT “Pervasive patriarchal threat tips into paranormal activity in the life of a young Pakistani medical student, resulting in a slightly predictable tale of haunting rooted in dark family secrets. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review In a Violent Nature (2024) 79% EDIT “ Even gruesome practical effects are presented without shock cuts or jump scares, as things which happen in (violent) nature rather than outrages against a moral universe.” – Sight & Sound Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 77% EDIT “There’s no shortage of comic book in-jokes, but the convoluted multiverse premise causes Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman to get lost in their own film, competing with cameos and multiple versions of themselves. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review
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