THREE AND A HALF STARS John Davidson has Tourette's. Everyone thinks he's inappropriate and swears too much. DRAMA UK English #ISWEAR Starring Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake Kirk Jones (WAKING NED DEVINE ) is no stranger to sentiment, and I SWEAR is no exception. Based on the true story of John Davidson, a Scotsman diagnosed as a teenager with Tourette syndrome, it’s a film with heart, humour and a fair amount of grit. If it doesn’t quite stick the landing, it certainly at lea

THREE AND A HALF STARS The sun is dying and Dr Ryland Grace is sent to save us. Turns out it's a bigger problem than he thought, and he's gonna need a bigger brain. SF DRAMA US English #PROJECTHAILMARY Starring Ryan Gosling, James Oritz There’s a strain of big-budget sci-fi that mistakes noise for awe; PROJECT HAIL MARY isn’t entirely immune, but it’s far more interested in charm than chaos. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and adapted from Andy Weir’s novel, th

THREE AND A HALF STARS Frances and her filmmaking parents travel to Amsterdam to bond with her gay, activist grandfather. DRAMA AUSTRALIA English #JIMPA Starring Olivia Colman, John Lithgow If Sophie Hyde’s JIMPA were a person it would arrive at a dinner party with good intentions, a great bottle of red and a mostly charming tendency to over-explain itself. After the startling formal invention of 52 TUESDAYS, Hyde’s compelling, time-bound study of a transitioning parent and

TWO AND A HALF STARS Cathy and Heathcliffe get wet and wild on the Yorkshire Moors. PERIOD DRAMA UK English #WUTHERINGHEIGHTS Starring Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi It’s all there in the title. This is “a” vision of Brontë's Wuthering Heights but reimagined as only Emerald Fennell (SALTBURN) could. It’s a ride, a “romance”, an assault on the senses and a story told in her very singular, visionary voice. Does it bear much resemblance to the novel? About as much as a sexed up K

FOUR AND A HALF STARS A former prison warden is spotted by a man he had once brutally interrogated. The man rounds up others who also seek revenge. DRAMA IRAN Persian #ITWASJUSTANACCIDENT Starring Vahid Mobasseri, Miriam Afshari Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is a morally searching thriller that demonstrates, yet again, how little this filmmaker needs in order to say something profound. Stripped of excess and driven by tension rather than plot mechanics, the film unf

THREE STARS A New York hustler and athlete has his eyes set firmly on winning the Olympics at table tennis. First he has to get there. DRAMA US English #MARTYSUPREME Starring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow MARTY SUPREME is powered by the kind of performance that dares you to look away. You won’t. As Marty, Timothée Chalamet dominates Josh Safdie’s sports movie with a restless, electrically charged turn that is as impressive as it is punishing. He is on screen almost cons

THREE STARS A couple are on a date which could go well if only the voices in their heads would just stop talking! DRAMA ITALY Italian #FOLLEMENTE Starring Pilar Fogliati, Edoardo Leo Paolo Genovese returns to the high-concept relationship comedy with SOMEBODY TO LOVE ( Follemente) , a largely enjoyable Italian rom-com that imagines a first date as a lively committee meeting inside two anxious minds. The premise will sound familiar — part Pixar’s Inside Out , part Woody Allen

FOUR STARS When a career man loses his job after decades of loyalty, he devises an alarming plan to get his job, any job, back. DRAMA KOREA Korean #NOOTHERCHOICE Starring Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin You know you’re well into awards season when every other film you watch hits the 2 hour 30 mark, and so it is with Park Chan-wook’s challenging NO OTHER CHOICE. Part social satire, part comedy horror, part devastating drama, it’s all parts Park from the exquisite visuals to the off

FIVE STARS A couple lose their son to the plague. A tragedy that could have destroyed them, unites them. DRAMA UK English #HAMNET Starring Jess Buckley, Paul Mescal There are films that announce arrive with fanfare and then there are films like HAMNET, which land softly, almost apologetically, and undo you with their grace. Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel is such a work. A period drama of rare emotional intelligence that understands grief is not a dramati

THREE AND A HALF STARS A demanding choirmaster aims to bring hope to a mill town depleted by the ravages of World War I. DRAMA UK English #THECHORAL Starring Ralph Fiennes, Mark Addy THE CHORAL is the kind of film that arrives as advertised, clears its throat politely and gets on with the job. Set in a Yorkshire village during the grim attrition of the First World War, it centres on a depleted male voice choir and the cultured outsider brought in to revive it. There are hymn