Verdict: The Cat in the Hat (2026) is a dazzling, overstuffed family film that children will likely adore and adults will admire in pieces. Warner Bros.’ first fully animated take on Dr. Seuss’s most famous troublemaker is bursting with colour, imagination and star power — but it tries so hard to be everything at once … Read more
Verdict: Predator: Badlands is the boldest swing the franchise has taken in decades — and it mostly connects. Director Dan Trachtenberg does something no Predator film has ever dared to do: he puts the monster at the centre of the story and asks the audience to root for it. The result is a rollicking, surprisingly … Read more
Verdict: 3/5. Collision Course is the kind of film Netflix was built to turn into an overnight talking point: a twisty, fast-moving Spanish heist thriller with a genuinely clever structure and a cast that knows exactly what it is doing. It shot to No. 1 on Netflix’s global chart within a day of release, according … Read more
Verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. The most gripping war film of 2026 contains almost no warfare at all. Pressure, Anthony Maras’s account of the 72 hours before D-Day, turns a room full of meteorologists into a pressure cooker — and then asks one man, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, to gamble 150,000 lives on a … Read more
Verdict: 3 out of 5 stars. Peter Berg’s The Mosquito Bowl is a war film of two halves that never quite become one movie. Its battle sequences are visceral, technically superb and genuinely harrowing. Its human drama, for long stretches, is thinner than the true story deserves. The result is a film that is easy … Read more
Verdict: Andrew Garfield is superb, Paul Greengrass’s battle scenes hit hard, and the first two-thirds of The Uprising are the most vivid medieval filmmaking in years. Then a late swerve towards myth undercuts the very realism that made it work. See it for Garfield and for the visceral history; forgive, if you can, a finish … Read more
Verdict: A gloriously strange premise, a cast playing at full tilt, and a satire that never quite decides what it is mocking. Sacrifice is fascinating to argue about afterwards — and frustrating to sit through. If you love star-driven oddities and do not mind a film that values provocation over coherence, it is worth a … Read more
Verdict: 2.5 out of 5. Twenty years after Ali G last headlined a film, Sacha Baron Cohen brings his most famous creation back — and discovers, as many returning heroes do, that the world has moved on. Ali G: Who Iz I? has flashes of the old mischief, a few genuinely funny pranks, and one … Read more
Verdict: 4.5 out of 5. Wicker is the strangest love story of the year, and also one of the most sincere. A lonely fisherwoman, mocked by her whole village, commissions a husband woven from willow — and the film treats that absurd premise with complete seriousness, bawdy humour, and a surprising amount of heart. It … Read more
Most music biopics are greatest-hits packages with the edges sanded off. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the opposite: a deliberately small, brooding film about the bleakest chapter of Bruce Springsteen’s career, and how a haunted bedroom demo became one of the most beloved albums ever made. It divided critics and underperformed at the box … Read more