Film Reviews

‘Gladiator 2’ review: back to Rome for Paul Mescal’s Colosseum-sized sequel

The battles are bigger and better but can a similar plot keep us sufficiently entertained?

‘Heretic’ review: Hugh Grant trades manners for menace in slick horror

He excelled throughout the '90s as a man behaving badly, but this is on another level

‘Emilia Perez’ review: Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez let loose in flawed musical melodrama

The critics forecast Oscars aplenty for this Spanish-language story of a mob boss’ gender transition – but we’re not convinced

‘Midas Man’ review: the genius who made The Beatles deserves better than this

The story of Fabs manager Brian Epstein is made into a cack-handed biopic

‘Piece By Piece’ review: Pharrell’s plastic-fantastic LEGO biopic

Including brick-ified versions of Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Gwen Stefani

‘Bird’ review: Barry Keoghan stars in a divisive, life-enhancing masterpiece

Andrea Arnold’s latest proves she’s a filmmaker who can’t be pigeonholed

‘Maria’ review: biopic of the opera great fails to match her legend

The third film in Pablo Larraín’s ‘Great Women’ trilogy is tonally unsure of itself

‘Smile 2’ review: unhappy horror sequel might make you frown

Writer-director Parker Finn runs it back for a middling facsimile of his hit scary movie

‘Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands’ review: UK pop and punk’s hard-done-by heroes

This fascinating documentary highlights a sexist, London-centric music industry
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