The History of Sound

Excellent slow-burn period drama with Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal

No Other Choice

Darkly comical Korean thriller is entertaining and vividly pointed

28 Years Later:
The Bone Temple
Nia DaCosta's gruesome, strikingly well-made bonkers horror sequel

Heavyweight

Inventive, involving British backstage boxing drama with Jordan Bolger

Rental Family

Engaging comedy-drama set in Tokyo and starring Brendan Fraser

The Rip

Deliberately gritty cop thriller with Matt Damon & Ben Affleck

Awards Mania!
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SHADOWS SWEEPSTAKES
Who should be winning this year's prizes.
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GOLDEN GLOBES • LONDON CRITICS
ONLINE CRITICS • DORIAN AWARDS

Cate chases dragons
21.JAN: Blanchett reprises role in live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon 2, with added Olafsson
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Banderas & Trejo reteam for Armadillo United football comedy
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Arjona & Ben-Adir have SCORN
Whitehall on Kardashian's WHEEL
Milioti & Powell in Apatow comedy
Bush & O'Connell to LAST RESORT
Covino directs, stars in LAST FIX
Abrams leads Reijn's PLEASE
SPEEDY GONZALEZ movie is coming
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Michelle on Pandora
18.JAN: Yeoh will star in the next two Avatar movies, which Cameron plans to shoot back to back.
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Powell leads the cast of Esmail's 1970s-style sci-fi thriller Tesseract
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Williams joins Chazelle's action
Cage & Long have BEST PANCAKES
Dunaway & Sorvino join PRIMA
Bader is Hamm in THE 99ERS biopic
Underwood & Davis are LISTENERS
Helms, Giddens, Sayles for ODE
Fearn leads O'Connor's RUNNING
Riley adapts dark comedy MR BURNS
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Emma gets mean
14.JAN: Mackey is joining White and Gordon in 10-year class reunion comedy Peaked
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Rourke, Baldwin, Reid, Cannon to National Lampoon's Hollywood Hustle
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Cotillard leads ROMA ELASTICA
Edgar Jones & Starkey in STAN
Locke, Flynn, Dolan join ELSINORE
Dujardin takes a ROLLERCOASTER
Bode boards romantic thriller SNARE
DePalma has SWEET REVENGE
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30 Jan:
IS THIS THING ON?
THE WRECKING CREW
WORLDBREAKER
ISLANDS
PRIMATE
NOUVELLE VAGUE
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
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6 Feb:
PILLION
TWINLESS
THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER
JIMPA
HAMLET
SCARLET
MY FATHER'S SHADOW
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU
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13 Feb:
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
CRIME 101
STITCH HEAD
THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP
LITTLE AMELIE
BROKEN BIRD
PALESTINE 36
THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
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20 Feb:
IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
A PRIVATE LIFE
SPLITSVILLE
WASTEMAN
THE SECRET AGENT
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Rich’s Best & Worst of 2025
THE 45th SHADOWS AWARDS
More lists than you can count...

Tale as old as time
STAGE
Charing Cross Theatre's adult panto Beauty and the Beast until 11 Jan...

Let it all hang out
STAGE
Cheeky song and dance in Boys in the Buff, Golden Goose until 10th Jan...

November TV Roundup
SCREEN Boots, Only Murders 5, Chad Powers, Peacemaker 2, MobLand, Morning Show 4, Alien: Earth, more...

The boss’ new groove
DANCE
ZooNation's dazzling hip-hop Ebony Scrooge, Sadler's East until 4 Jan...

A Victorian night out
STAGE
The Great Christmas Feast, an immersive dinner & show until 4 Jan...

Make the yuletide gay
STAGE
The Fit Prince is hilarious holiday anarchy, at King's Head until 3 Jan...

Step back in time
STAGE
RVT panto Growled is a riotous spin on Beauty and the Beast, until 3rd Jan...

We need a little Christmas
STAGE
Brick Lane Music Hall's dinner-theatre The Magic of Christmas until 19 Dec...

Deep under the skin
DANCE
Ballet Black's darkly invlving double bill Shadows at Sadler's Wells...

Connection is the answer
DANCE
NDT & Complicite's staggering Figures in Extinction at Sadler's Wells...

Reminder from mother earth
DANCE
Akram Khan and Manal AlDowayan's elemental Thikra at Sadler's Wells...

That’s the way I like it
STAGE
KC & Sunshine Band musical rocks Charing Cross Theatre until 15 Nov...

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SEP TV: Chief of War, Wednesday...
STAGE: Ghost Stories at Peacock
Shadows @ London Film Fest
DANCE: Theatre of Dreams, Sadler's
DANCE: Bogota at Sadler's East
DANCE: Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells
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The Voice of Hind Rajab

Harrowing thriller from Palestine uses real-life voice recordings

People We Meet on Vacation

Silly romantic comedy has a surprisingly engaging depth to it

The Chronology of Water

Kristen Stewart's directing debut is a darkly swirling memoir

Primate

Unhinged but not very scary rabid chimp slasher horror mayhem

The Housemaid

Twisty, insinuating thriller with Sydney Sweeney & Amanda Seyfried

The Plague

A menacing vibe permeates this tale of peer pressure at water polo camp

SpongeBob: Search for
SquarePants
Another riotously ridiculous adventure for the animated pals

Avatar: Fire and Ash

The third epic episode is seriously impressive but feels repetitive

Ella McCay

Smart, uneven comedy-drama with Emma Mackey & Jamie Lee Curtis

Preparation for the Next
Life
Timely, observant NYC drama with Fred Hechinger & Sebiye Behtiyar

Eleanor the Great

Witty, sharply observant drama starring the great June Squibb

A Few Feet Away

Bold and introspective Argentine drama with rising star Max Suen

Oh. What. Fun.

Michelle Pfeiffer leads this silly but charming Christmas comedy

Magazine Dreams

Darkly moving bodybuilding drama starring a muscly Jonathan Majors

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LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS
SANDBAG DAM
ZOOTOPIA 2
CHRISTY
BLUE MOON
THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE
THE CARPENTER'S SON
SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE
THE ICE TOWER
SAUNA
THE RUNNING MAN
NUREMBERG
PARK AVENUE
BULL RUN
VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH
GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE
EDEN & CHARLIE
RELAY
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Sound of Falling

Staggeringly skilful German drama traces multiple generations of women

Dead Man’s Wire

Gus Van Sant's true-life thriller with Dacre Montgomery & Bill Skarsgard

A Private Life

Bustling French mystery thriller with Jodie Foster & Daniel Auteuil

Hamnet

Viscerally charged romantic drama with Jesse Buckley & Paul Mescal

Song Sung Blue

Engaging, emotional true story with Hugh Jackman & Kate Hudson

Marty Supreme

Timothee Chalamet is excellent in a busy, fast epic ping-pong biopic

Peter Hujar’s Day

Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall are excellent as chatty 1970s artists

Sentimental Value

Gorgeous Norwegian father-daughter drama has a clever filmmaking kick

The Choral

Alan Bennet's script makes British period drama rousing and engaging

Father Mother Sister
Brother
Venice-winning sibling drama triptych with a powerhouse ensemble cast

The Testament of Ann Lee

Fiercely original Shakers-founder biopic with Amanda Seyfried

Is This Thing On?

Strikingly original true-life romcom with Will Arnett & Laura Dern

Goodbye June

Engaging British comedy-drama with Andrea Riseborough & Kate Winslet

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COVER-UP
LURKER
THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
SCARLET
BABY
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
LA GRAZIA
ETERNITY
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
FOLKTALES
WAKE UP DEAD MAN
HAMNET
PILLION
THE SECRET AGENT
THE THING WITH FEATHERS
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