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  • The Wife (2017)
    Review preview for The Wife

    Björn Runge is in no hurry to reveal his characters' faults or their history, letting his camera linger on Close and Pryce, so we can see the thoughts that swim on after the words die away.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm, where her husband is to receive an award.
  • Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
    Review preview for Wild Mountain Thyme

    It's often the most slender plots that make for the best scripts because they force writers to work harder, but there's no indication of anything resembling work having gone into this.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.
  • Winter Boy (2022)
    Review preview for Winter Boy

    Young star Paul Kircher puts in an impressively sensitive and emotionally raw peformance.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Set over the course of one winter, a 17-year-old high school student struggles with grief.
  • Wish (2023)
    Review preview for Wish

    Wish feels like one granted, a treat from start to finish.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A young girl named Asha wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from the sky to join her.
  • Wishmaster (1997)
    Review preview for Wishmaster

    In the spirit of goregush horror flicks, this Wes Craven production is highly creative in disembowelment techniques.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Wishes turn sour - and slasher-heavy - thanks to a demonic djinn.
  • Wolf Man (2025)
    Review preview for Wolf Man

    There's little new under the sun, and even less by moonlight.

    Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
    A family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognisable.
  • The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
    Review preview for The Wolf of Wall Street

    This is how you destroy people's dignity and make them yours, Scorsese seems to say.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Based on the true story of the rise and fall of a financial high roller.
  • The Woman (2011)
    Review preview for The Woman

    Horror film of the year so far, and likely to be one of the most memorable and celebrated of the coming decade.

    David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
    A successful country lawyer captures and attempts to 'civilise' a woman he finds in the woods.
  • A Woman's Life (2026)
    Review preview for A Woman's Life

    Director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet weaves an intricate life for Gabrielle without making it feel like a melodrama

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A dedicated surgeon whose private life is under strain because of the demands of her work finds things beginning to shift when a novelist comes to observe her work for a book.
  • Wonder Woman (2017)
    Review preview for Wonder Woman

    Sometimes a film is more, much more, than the sum of its parts.

    Jane Fae · 5 out of 5
    An Amazon princess ventures into the outside world to try and end a war.
  • Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
    Review preview for Wonder Woman 1984

    The central characters, so often a weak point in superhero movies, are well developed with solid performances all round. Gadot, meanwhile, goes above and beyond.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Wonder Woman has to learn some difficult personal lessons as she faces off against Max Lord and the Cheetah with the fate of the world at stake.
  • The World To Come (2020)
    Review preview for The World To Come

    Overall, the story is a familiar one, with a predictably, one could even say, cliched tragic sweep - a well-trodden pioneer trail that while watchable for the fine performances, still feels overly stuck in a rut.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    In upstate New York in the 1850s, Abigail begins a new year on the rural farm where she lives with her husband Dyer. But a friendship with the wife of a new neighbour leads to trouble.
  • Wrath Of The Gods (2026)
    Review preview for Wrath Of The Gods

    There are moments when things come together and the fierce weather generates a powerful mood.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    The North Sea island of Hel is cloaked in mystery, myth and misogyny. Isolated because the local community despise her, Anna is torn between the ghosts of the past and the gods of the present as an ill wind blows through, and young girls vanish.
  • Yella (2007)
    Review preview for Yella

    This is, in places, a deeply disturbing film... yet the touching scenes, when they come, have a surprisingly emotional depth.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Metaphysical thriller about a woman trying to escape her past and build a future.
  • You're So Cool Brewster! The Story Of Fright Night (2016)
    Review preview for You're So Cool Brewster! The Story Of Fright Night

    There is the same sense of warmth and humour that made the film so endearing.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A documentary about the cult horror comedy.
  • The Yeti (2026)
    Review preview for The Yeti

    There are gory deaths. There’s genuinely funny pastiche. There’s also an attempt at affecting character drama.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    When a rescue party sets out in search of a vanished exhibition in remote Alaska forest, its members soon realise that something big is on their trail.
  • Yummy (2019)
    Review preview for Yummy

    There's some gory comedy here that will appeal to a certain sort of genre fan, including one of the best uses for intestines since Machete.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    When a young man releases a woman he finds strapped to a gurney in a shade plastic surgery clinic, he doesn't realise that he's unleashing a zombie plague.
  • Zack And Miri Make A Porno (2008)
    Review preview for Zack And Miri Make A Porno

    All the abusive repartee between staff and customers should gladden the hearts of minimum wage workers everywhere.

    Tony Sullivan · 3 out of 5
    Fairly recently, in a land far far away (well, Pittsburgh) a porno is born.
  • Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
    Review preview for Zero Dark Thirty

    If you've read the paper during the last ten years, you won't get much new insight here.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 2.5 out of 5
    A recreation of the ten year hunt by US agents for Osama bin Laden.
  • The Zero Theorem (2013)
    Review preview for The Zero Theorem

    The Zero Theorem is a messy mélange of broad pratfalls, challenged idealism, dark satire, and expansive, indeed cosmic allegory - but it also .cannot escape being seen as a kind of Brazil vers. 2.0.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A reclusive computer genius, plagued with existential angst, works on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the meaning of life.
  • Zip & Zap And The Marble Gang (2013)
    Review preview for Zip & Zap And The Marble Gang

    It's a well constructed, well paced, well made film, but it's poised and polished and professional where one might hope for something a bit more ramshackle, a mite more rebellious.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A group of kids rebel against strict rules at their school.
  • Zombie Undead (2010)
    Review preview for Zombie Undead

    Being low budget and British is no excuse for dire unoriginality.

    Anton Bitel · 1 out of 5
    A dirty bomb causes a zombie outbreak.
  • Zombillenium (2017)
    Review preview for Zombillenium

    Arthur de Pins, adapting his graphic novel, alongside co-director Alexis Ducord gets caught between the adult ideas of protest and class war, and the more kid-friendly adventures.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    An inspector unexpectedly joins the ranks of the undead at a theme park - can he save the day and reconnect with his daughter?
  • The Zone Of Interest (2023)
    Review preview for The Zone Of Interest

    There are no shortcuts in this film, no conventions and nothing careless.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    The daily lives of the Höss family outside the walls of Auschwitz.
  • Zoolander (2001)
    Review preview for Zoolander

    The humour exaggerates the worst excesses of Saturday Night Live.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Ben Stiller spoofs the fashion world and adds on a political assassination subplot.

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