Skip to main content

Search: Directed by Chris Renaud

  • Despicable Me (2010)
    Review preview for Despicable Me

    Would be a serious examination of the family in the postmodern age, were it not so laugh-out-loud funny.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    A super-villain plots to steal the Moon.
  • Despicable Me 2 (2013)
    Review preview for Despicable Me 2

    A magnificent 90 minutes of slapstick silliness.

    Max Crawford · 4.5 out of 5
    There's a new supervillain on the block and Gru is recruited to help the Anti-Villain League.
  • Despicable Me 4 (2024)
    Review preview for Despicable Me 4

    Good enough.

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    Gru, Lucy, Margo, Edith and Agnes welcome a new member to the family, Gru Jr, who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.
  • Dr Seuss' The Lorax (2012)
    Review preview for Dr Seuss' The Lorax

    For all the 3D eyeball-poking efforts, barbershop-quartet singing fish and more colours than an explosion in a paintbox, the thin story never rises beyond merely okay.

    Scott Macdonald · 2 out of 5
    A young man sets out to find the guardian of the forests as a swindler tries to trick people into paying for fresh air.

News and features

Paul Rowley on moving to New York, the Pulse massacre, and Gays Against Guns

Going ape Antonin Niclass on character creation, empathy and animated short Into The Forest

Freeform Will Niava on grief, new immigrant experiences and Jazz Infernal

In silence Emir Kumova on child marriage in Türkiye, moral challenges and making The Witness

Taking a ride into liminal spaces Katharine Round on making documentary Ghost Town

Flying blind Michael Woloson and Scott Tinkham on improvisation, experimental writing and Littermates

In deep water Dominic Curran on internet overexposure and A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing

More news and features

Festival coverage

Festivals
Cannes festival coverage, 2026

We're bringing you all the latest news and reviews from the Cheltenham International Film Festival, the Leeds International Film Festival, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights.



We're looking forward to the French Film Festival and DOC NYC.



We've recently brought you coverage of the Belfast Film Festival, Halloween Frightfest, the Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Newfest, the London Film Festival, the New York Film Festival and Grimmfest.



Read our full for more.


Visit our festivals section.