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The Last Sunrise
Maia Reficco · Fernando Lindez
GLOWING
Familiar beats, played fresh. Carlson Young's Mallorca romance works on staging and cast even when the script gives them nothing new to do.
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The Last Sunrise
Maia Reficco · Fernando Lindez
GLOWINGFamiliar beats, played fresh. Carlson Young's Mallorca romance works on staging and cast even when the script gives them nothing new to do.
Over Your Dead Body
Jason Segel · Samara Weaving
DIMMEDFunny, mean and forgettable. Samara Weaving and the gore carry it, the plot runs entirely on coincidence, and the humour will lose some viewers.
A Street Cat Named Bob
Luke Treadaway · Bob the Cat
DIMMEDThe real Bob plays himself, which is the film's best idea and its ceiling. Strong performances, memoir pacing, and $8m that never reaches the screen.
Insidious: Out of the Further
Amelia Eve · Island Austin
GLOWINGA horror film that would rather make you uncomfortable than scare you. It is good at that. The scale of the threat it keeps promising never arrives.
Send Help
Rachel McAdams · Dylan O'Brien
GLOWINGSam Raimi's island thriller is funny, filthy and sharp about office power. It stops arguing the moment it works out it can escalate instead.
The End of Oak Street
Anne Hathaway · Ewan McGregor
GLOWINGDavid Robert Mitchell's dinosaur picture is fast, funny and genuinely nasty. It's also a family drama that gets solved by a plot device instead of by its family.
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The Last House
DIMMEDA superb locked-house premise and two good performances, undone by a final act that pays for none of it.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Chris Pratt · Anya Taylor-Joy
GLOWINGNintendo's sequel raids the franchise junk drawer for a run of set pieces. Good fun, and doing exactly the job it was built for.
No Reservations
Catherine Zeta-Jones · Aaron Eckhart
DIMMEDIs No Reservations worth watching? The food is superb and the story is not. Our verdict on the 2007 Catherine Zeta-Jones kitchen romance.
Masters of the Universe
Nicholas Galitzine · Camila Mendes
GLOWINGIt flopped in cinemas and hit number one on Prime Video in a week. He-Man plays better on a sofa, and the innuendo does the heavy lifting.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Tom Holland · Zendaya
BLAZINGNobody remembers Peter Parker, his own powers are getting away from him, and the last half hour will take you apart.
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Meryl Streep · Anne Hathaway
GLOWINGTwenty years on, print is dying, Runway is losing, and Miranda Priestly is working from the weakest position of her career.
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
Eric Nam · Dave Bautista
GLOWINGThe first film from Avatar Studios has one genuinely beautiful idea buried inside it, and about ninety minutes of other things sitting on top.
The Odyssey
Matt Damon · Anne Hathaway
GLOWINGGorgeous, overlong, and strangely unsurprising — because prophecy tells you what's coming. Better the second time.
Obsession
Michael Johnston · Inde Navarrette
BLAZINGA novelty toy grants one wish. What follows is the year's most uncomfortable horror — and the read it earns isn't the obvious one.
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