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Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho Starring: Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Udo Kier Certificate: 15 Released: 20 February 2026Rating: 9/10 Last year Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here began as a rapturous love letter to the lost Rio of his youth. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent feels
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Directed by: Richard Linklater Starring: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin Certificate: 12A Released: 30 January 2026 Rating: 8/10 Richard Linklater has perfected the knack of making films so charming you want to find a quiet corner in them and curl up with glee. With last year’s Blue
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Directed by: Joachim Trier Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning Certificate: 15 Released: 26 December 2025 Rating: 9/10 There’s an epidemic of daddy issues abroad in cinemas right now. Last month, Noah Baumbach cast George Clooney as the beloved Hollywood icon Jay Kelly, desperately
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Directed by: Noah BaumbachStarring: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura DernCertificate: 15Released: 14 NovemberRating: 8/10 Even though he’s been making movies for over 30 years, George Clooney sometimes feels like a simulation of a classic Hollywood icon, with such charm, glamour and ease in a dinner jacket that you
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Directed by: Richard Linklater Starring: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott Certificate: 15 Rating: 8/10 At this point the musical biopic is an unstoppable juggernaut of a genre, a heedless commercial cybertruck speeding on regardless of artistic success or audience appetite. In 2025 we’ve had Bob and the
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Directed by: Josh Safdie Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion Rating: 9/10 If the Safdie brothers have a major theme it’s male chutzpah. From Lenny, the dreamy, deadbeat dad in Daddy Longlegs (2009), through Connie, the budding criminal mastermind in Good Times (2017), planning both
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Directed by: Lynne Ramsay Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield Certificate: 15 Rating: 8/10 Over the past quarter-century Lynne Ramsay has adapted novels about Ibizan ravers (Morvern Callar), teenage murderers (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and child traffickers (You Were Never Really Here), while remaining the most
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Directed by: Clint Bentley Starring: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr. Certificate: PG Rating: 9/10 Back in 2000, when Uncut secured Denis Johnson’s first interview in 15 years to promote Alison Maclean’s adaptation of Jesus’ Son, we hailed him as “the world’s greatest living writer”
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Directed by: Scott Cooper Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young Rating: 7/10 “I’m just trynna find something real in all the noise,” mumbles Jeremy Allen White, all brooding, ursine intensity as Bruce Springsteen at the heart of Scott Cooper’s new biopic. “You find something real,
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Paul Thomas Anderson taps into the dream life of America
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Sam Riley gets his groove back in a languid mystery with Highsmithian pretensions
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Christy initially comes on like it’s going to be a gritty corrective to the larks of The Young Offenders but unfurls into something more complex, surprising and moving