Good Luck, Have Fun,
Don’t Die
Madcap sci-fi comedy thriller with a time-travelling Sam Rockwell

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Rose Byrne is astonishing in cleverly unhinged motherhood drama

A Private Life

Bustling French mystery thriller with Jodie Foster & Daniel Auteuil

Cold Storage

Entertainingly grisly comedy with Georgina Campbell & Joe Keery

Wasteman

Gritty, inventive British prison drama with David Jonsson & Tom Blyth

Kokuhō

Sumptuous, involving Japanese drama about kabuki theatre actors

Awards Mania!
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SHADOWS SWEEPSTAKES
Who should be winning this year's prizes.
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OSCAR • BAFTA • GLOBES • DORIANS
LONDON CRITICS • ONLINE CRITICS

Colman gets political
18.FEB: Domingo joins Washington & Marsden in Collet-Serra's Washington DC thriller An Innocent Girl
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A'zion, Watts, Paulson, Wiest & Roberts in Mother Courage drama
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Reynolds offers PARENTING TIPS
Negga, Gad, Isaacs in BAD MAJOR
Graham & Shue join GREYHOUND 2
Bakalova & Wilmot for NO WAY OFF
Rogowski & Wong join MASQUE
Burke & Hewson in 1970s Dublin
DiCaprio & Roth make DEATH doc
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Nicole and the nanny
15.FEB: Kidman will star in a thriller about a nanny plotting to use a Hollywood power couple
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Butler will play Lance Armstrong in Berger & Baylin's cycling biopic
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Larson leads Moller's SKELETONS
Knightley, Vikander for THE WORST
Murphy & Longoria in ATTACHMENT
Leigh, Fitzgerald, Cruz have TOYS
Gage joins holiday romp CLASHING
Shannon is the new DR CALIGARI
Roberts in BODY and SHREDDED
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Chris in the boss
11.FEB: Hemswirth joins Egerton & Beetz in Ross' New York underworld thriller Kockroach
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XCX, Alcock & Reedus will star in Miike's new Japanese slasher thriller
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Mackie & Stone in Mamet's PLOW
Sedgwick & Butterfield are HAPPY
Bloom joins Hawke's TRIBE thriller
Gillan, Hutcherson in BLASPHEMOUS
Rossi leads YOUNG BLOOD comedy
Sandler replaces Bale in TIME OUT
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27 Feb:
SIRAT
SCREAM 7
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL
THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE
PALESTINE COMEDY CLUB
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6 Mar:
HOPPERS
THE BRIDE
HEEL
SOUND OF FALLING
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13 Mar:
HOW TO MAKE A KILLING
ONE LAST DEAL
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
SCARLET
EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
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20 Mar:
PROJECT HAIL MARY
DEAD MAN'S WIRE
ARCO
ABODE
LA GRAZIA
TWO PROSECUTORS
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Rich’s Best & Worst of 2025
THE 45th SHADOWS AWARDS
More lists than you can count...

February TV Roundup
SCREEN The Beauty, Heated Rivalry, Stranger Things 5, The Night Manager 2, Wonder Man, Industry 4, more...

Remember my name
DANCE
Pina Bausch's Sweet Mambo premieres at Sadler's Wells, until 21st Feb...

Married to the job
STAGE
Gecko's sparky The Wedding explores social contracts, at Sadler's East...

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...

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...

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

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...

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DANCE: Figures in Extinction, Sadler's
DANCE: Thikra at Sadler's Wells
STAGE: Get Down Tonight, Charing X
SEP TV: Chief of War, Wednesday...
STAGE: Ghost Stories at Peacock
Shadows @ London Film Fest
DANCE: Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells
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Scare Out

Sleek Chinese counter-espionage thriller is choppy but intriguing

Jimmy and Stiggs

Outrageous yucky home-made horror from actor-filmmaker Joe Begos

Whistle

Gleefully grisly high school horror romp starring Dafne Keen

The Day the Earth Blew Up

Colourful and kinetic Looney Tunes movie feels random and unfocussed

Broken Bird

Energetic concert film featuring the sensational K-pop boy band

Hamlet

Riz Ahmed stars in a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's classic

Jimpa

Warmly pointed Australian drama with Olivia Colman and John Lithgow

The Chronology of Water

Kristen Stewart's mbitiously artful debut is painterly and ingulgent

All That’s Left of You

Emotional, melodramatic epic sees Palestine's history through a family

Stray Kids: The DominATE
Experience
Energetic concert film featuring the sensational K-pop boy band

The Wrecking Crew

Jason Momoa & Dave Bautista unleash carnage in likeable romp

Kangaroo

Adorable joeys populate this charming, often silly Aussie romp

Worldbreaker

Post-apocalyptic thriller is sharply well made, but oddly underwritten

Primate

Unhinged but not very scary rabid chimp slasher horror mayhem

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28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
THE RIP
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION
THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER
THE HOUSEMAID
THE PLAGUE
SPONGEBOB: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
ELLA McCAY
ELEANOR THE GREAT
PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE
A FEW FEET AWAY
OH. WHAT. FUN.
MAGAZINE DREAMS
LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS
SANDBAG DAM
ZOOTOPIA 2
CHRISTY
MORE >>

Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell's delightfully excessive film of the Bronte classic

Crime 101

Ripping all-star heist thriller with Chris Hemsworth & Halle Berry

Goat

Smart, funny, gorgeously animated sports action starring, well, a goat

Palestine 36

Stunning adventure traces a pivotal, eerily timely moment in history

The President’s Cake

A young girl's adventure in Iraq is fascinating and warmly involving

My Father’s Shadow

Gorgeously observational story of two boys out with their dad in Lagos

Little Amélie

Oscar-nominated French animated adventure is simply gorgeous

Stitch Head

Colourful and enjoyably offbeat animated spin on Frankenstein

Pillion

Surprisingly sweet British dom-sub romance starring Alexander & Harry

Twinless

Smart, twisty comedy-drama with Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney

Scarlet

Inventively animated Japanese action fantasy is a clever riff on Hamlet

Is This Thing On?

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

Islands

Riveting Hitchcock-style mystery thriller set in the Canary Islands

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7 KEYS
NOUVELLE VAGUE
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS
THE HISTORY OF SOUND
H IS FOR HAWK
HEAVYWEIGHT
NO OTHER CHOICE
RENTAL FAMILY
SOUND OF FALLING
DEAD MAN'S WIRE
A PRIVATE LIFE
HAMNET
SONG SUNG BLUE
PETER HUJAR'S DAY
MARTY SUPREME
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
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