Reviews by Andrew Robertson

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  Godzilla Minus Zero (2026)

  Review preview for Godzilla Minus Zero

  The first Japanese production to be shot specifically for IMAX, there's plenty big on that big big screen.

  Japan, 1949. Pilot Kōichi, his wife Noriko and adoptive daughter Akiko are attempting to recover from Godzilla’s recent attacks. But just as everything seems settled, a new danger emerges.
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  Wild Horse Nine (2026)

  Review preview for Wild Horse Nine

  Malkovich and Rockwell are magnetic.

  Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Rapa Nui.
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  I Love Boosters (2026)

  Review preview for I Love Boosters

  I suspected there'd be ideas introduced that lesser films would attempt to spin out while this grabbed another and another and another, and so it came to pass.

  A crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven.
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  La Bola Negra (2026)

  Review preview for La Bola Negra

  La Bola Negra was an unfinished work in a life cut short but the film named (variously) for it is extension and tribute and triumph.

  Drama exploring the inter-connected lives of three gay men.
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  Street Fighter (2026)

  Review preview for Street Fighter

  Nothing quite works.

  In 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu and Ken Masters are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament - but behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy.
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  Digger (2026)

  Review preview for Digger

  Digger is not a film that invites fence sitting.

  The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
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  Hope (2026)

  Review preview for Hope

  Hope's scale and scope and delightful detail make it a banquet, if not an all-you-can-eat buffet.

  A thriller set near Korea's heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone. When a tiger is reported to have been sighted, the community is thrown into chaos
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  Resident Evil (2026)

  Review preview for Resident Evil

  The age rating with its warnings of gore and language doesn't quite cover the extent to which filth and fury are scattered.

  In an all-new story, a medical courier unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
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  Coyote Vs. Acme (2026)

  Review preview for Coyote Vs. Acme

  It's a delight, one that earns its place in a cultural canon.

  After enduring years of malfunctioning products, Wile E Coyote teams up with a local personal injury attorney to take on ACME, the manufacturer of anything and everything used by the Looney Tunes characters.
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  The End Of Oak Street (2026)

  Review preview for The End Of Oak Street

  When the rubber meets the road of The End Of Oak Street it doesn't quite grip

  The Platt family bands together to navigate new surroundings after a cosmic event transports a suburban neighborhood to someplace unknown.
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  Capsized (2026)

  Review preview for Capsized

  It doesn't quite manage to smuggle its magic through.

  Nicole's discovery of an eviction notice shatters her family's houseboat vacation, forcing them to confront their patriarch's troubles, lost homes, and fractured identities.
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  Mutiny (2026)

  Review preview for Mutiny

  There's good craft here, acting and action alike.

  After his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, a boyguard is set up to take the fall for the crime - leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy.
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  Stop! That! Train! (2026)

  Review preview for Stop! That! Train!

  Perhaps most complex typographically.

  Two train stewardess BFFs switch from a dull railway to the luxurious Glamazonian Express. During a massive storm, they must work with snooty first-class crew and President Gagwell to prevent disaster in Los Angeles.
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  Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

  Review preview for Spider-Man: Brand New Day

  I had to step aside to try to enjoy it as a thing itself and I'm not convinced I succeeded.

  A forgotten Peter Parker lives alone as a full-time Spider-Man until mounting pressure triggers a dangerous change and a powerful new enemy emerges.
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  The Odyssey (2026)

  Review preview for The Odyssey

  This retelling is the one you seek.

  After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, the sirens and Calypso along the way.
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  The Invite (2026)

  Review preview for The Invite

  Wilde's direction is assured, there's some gorgeous framing and frequent Rogen collaborator Adam Newport-Berra's camera makes the most of what's in front of it.

  Joe and Angela are on thin ice, and tonight might be when it all falls apart. Unfortunately, their upstairs neighbours are about to arrive for dinner, and everything that can go wrong goes worse.
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  Supergirl (2026)

  Review preview for Supergirl

  Supergirl, here at least, isn't a double identity. It's maybe not even one.

  Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice when an unexpected adversary strikes too close to home.
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  Savage House (2026)

  Review preview for Savage House

  Time has not helped it, but I'm not sure what would.

  Set in 18th Century England during a pox outbreak and Jacobite uprising, this is the story of Sir Chauncey and Lady Savage blindly pursuing a better life. Their pursuit is filled with ironic decadence and bloodshed.
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  My Mother's Wedding (2023)

  Review preview for My Mother's Wedding

  In casting its net My Mother's Wedding has just a few too many gaps.

  Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. The mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colourful group of unexpected wedding guests.
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  Power Ballad (2026)

  Review preview for Power Ballad

  Taking care of business is rarely as emotional, but it's part of Power Ballad's exploration of authenticity.

  When a past-his-prime wedding singer meets a fading boy-band star during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session, but then the former star turns one of the wedding singer’s songs into the hit that reignites his career.
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  Obsession (2025)

  Review preview for Obsession

  Obsession is not just a real indicator of talent but an absolute treat.

  A desperate wish for love goes terribly wrong.
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  Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu (2026)

  Review preview for Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu

  This has the feel of a serial condensed to a feature.

  Once a lone bounty hunter, Mandalorian Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu embark on an exciting new Star Wars adventure.
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  The Bride! (2026)

  Review preview for The Bride!

  For all its quality, and there's plenty, it doesn't quite feel a thing complete. Its characters are disobedient, but their film is in part disordered.

  In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change.
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  Project Hail Mary (2026)

  Review preview for Project Hail Mary

  All involved have properly leveraged what makes movies magic.

  A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship light years from Earth. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing the sun, and save Earth. An unexpected friendship may be the key.
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  Return To Silent Hill (2026)

  Review preview for Return To Silent Hill

  There's little new here, and even less fresh.

  When a man receives a mysterious letter from his lost love, he is drawn to Silent Hill, a once familiar town now consumed by darkness.
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  Iron Lung (2026)

  Review preview for Iron Lung

  It's suspenseful, scary, stunning.

  In a post-apocalyptic future after an event called 'The Quiet Rapture', a convict explores a blood ocean on a desolate moon using the submarine Iron Lung to search for missing stars/planets.
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  Melania (2026)

  Review preview for Melania

  You may be tempted to seek out Melania in its brief cinematic run. Don't.

  A film about the Slovenian erotic model who married her way into the US White House.
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  Primate (2026)

  Review preview for Primate

  I didn't go in with high expectations but I was thrilled.

  Home from college, Lucy reunites with family including pet chimp Ben. Ben contracts rabies during a pool party and turns aggressive. Lucy and her friends barricade themselves in the pool, devising ways to survive the vicious chimp.
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  28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)

  Review preview for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

  More than anything else it's Fiennes, manager of the marrow-hall, that makes The Bone Temple worth seeing.

  Another entry in the epidemic franchise. As a young man is inducted into a gang, a doctor makes a discovery that could change the world.
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  Duel (1971)

  Review preview for Duel

  A remarkably efficient film.

  A car driver is relentlessly pursued by a truck.
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  Marty Supreme (2025)

  Review preview for Marty Supreme

  Everything is true, especially the parts that aren't. This is the magic of movies.

  Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
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  Predator: Killer Of Killers (2025)

  Review preview for Predator: Killer Of Killers

  I hugely enjoyed Prey, was amused by Badlands, but I spent almost all of Killer Of Killers grinning so widely I nearly grew mandibles.

  An original animated action-adventure film set in the Predator universe.
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  Wicked: For Good (2025)

  Review preview for Wicked: For Good

  Part of the frustration with Wicked: For Good is that, as with its other half, its quality in so many places highlights its weaknesses in others.

  Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second part of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
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  Alpha (2025)

  Review preview for Alpha

  Alpha exists in the intersection of the probable and the parable.

  Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mother. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
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  Predator: Badlands (2025)

  Review preview for Predator: Badlands

  The bones of the story are familiar but this is new flesh upon them, a vital bit of rejuvenation and not tedious taxidermy.

  A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
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  Sisu: Road To Revenge (2025)

  Review preview for Sisu: Road To Revenge

  I was entertained, in much the same way but not to the same extent as the first outing.

  Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, “the man who refuses to die” dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honour. When the Red Army commander who killed his family comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless cross-country chase ensues
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  The Running Man (2025)

  Review preview for The Running Man

  Powell's charming enough, but seems fated to take roles where he'll be judged and found wanting against capital-S stars.

  A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are pursued by hunters hired to kill them.
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  Nuremberg (2025)

  Review preview for Nuremberg

  It relies on often clumsy exposition, a common construction of "only if X" with a cut to "X has happened" leaves one asking "why?".

  Drama chronicles the events that brought the Nazi high command to justice following the Second World War.
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  Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)

  Review preview for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

  Recursive nostalgia is no substitute for quality, and it drowns everything else in tepidity.

  When Mary finds herself in a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
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  Frankenstein (2025)

  Review preview for Frankenstein

  There is a magnetism to it all.

  A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation
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  Defence Of The Realm (1985)

  Review preview for Defence Of The Realm

  A taut thriller rooted in several strong performances.

  After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.
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  Tron: Ares (2025)

  Review preview for Tron: Ares

  There isn't a point where Ares feels fun.

  A highly sophisticated program, Ares, is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission.
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  A House Of Dynamite (2025)

  Review preview for A House Of Dynamite

  In A House Of Dynamite the uncertainties are propulsive, what we learn unsettling. Each tick of the clock reorients our understanding of the same events.

  When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
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  Prey (2022)

  Review preview for Prey

  Prey catches the spark of Predator in a way that other sequels often don't, haven't, won't.

  Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
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  The Long Walk (2025)

  Review preview for The Long Walk

  Even with the odd flashback it is relentlessly linear.

  A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as 'The Long Walk', in which they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.
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  One Battle After Another (2025)

  Review preview for One Battle After Another

  One detail after another rewards.

  When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter.
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  Mother Goose (2025)

  Review preview for Mother Goose

  This is a solid piece of craft, simple in its intent and payoff but as with furniture the cleaner the lines the more work that's hidden.

  After the death of her husband, Janet decides to distract herself by rearing a goose... which becomes an obsession.
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  Weapons (2025)

  Review preview for Weapons

  What we see is framed from the perspective of those after whom the chapters are named but we get the consequences of their visions too. We also see what they're afraid of, and how that intersects and overlaps is where Weapons is sharpest.

  When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
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  Walk With Me (2024)

  Review preview for Walk With Me

  The discussion of map-making is part of learning how to navigate the condition, to forge new paths while exploring what amounts to a new self.

  A filmmaker charts her own journey after her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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  I Live Here Now (2025)

  Review preview for I Live Here Now

  While the film's ambition should be saluted it falls short in ways that frustrate.

  A woman finds herself trapped in a remote hotel where the violent echoes of her past come alive, blurring the lines between her darkest nightmares and the waking world.