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Backrooms (2026)

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Its images are often chilling. Its spaces have a genuine charge. But the plot often feels less like cinema than like a sequence of cutscenes from a video game with the gameplay removed.

Edin Custo · 3 out of 5

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
The Drowning (2016)

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Bette Gordon's adaptation of Pat Barker's hit novel is refreshingly different.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5

A psychiatrist gets out of his depth when treating a young man whom he sent to prison for murder as a child.
I Am Michael (2015)

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There is too much of the ring of the academic argument and, especially for a film so concerned with the spiritual, not quite enough soul.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5

The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.
Our Hero, Balthazar (2025)

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Watching the two young men, you may well find your sympathies shifting – and you may wonder which of them, if either, is actually en route to becoming a killer.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5

Satire sees wealthy NYC teenager Balthy make dramatic gun control videos to impress his activist crush. When an online troll targets his content, Balthy becomes convinced he's communicating with a potential school shooter and embarks on an ill-advised journey to Texas to confront him.