Boy Eats Girl (2005)
Mar 30, 2015Zombie Film
One of wittiest titles of the 2000s zombie revival fad – the suggestion of a high school love story gone really wrong. This actual film is a surprisingly ordinary and unexceptional effort
Domhnall Gleeson
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Nov 17, 2010Organ-Harvesting Dystopia
This has a similar scenario to Michael Bay's The Island but also at 180 degree remove - where Bay was loud and bludgeoning, this approaches the idea as a subtle British childhood pastoral
Dredd (2012)
Jan 12, 2013Comic-Book Adaptation/Future Law Enforcement Officer
A second film version of the Judge Dredd comic-book. More faithful than the Sylvester Stallone version, this comes with a satisfyingly visceral kick, yet a low-budget means that we see little of Dredd's satiric future
About Time (2013)
Nov 3, 2013Time Travel Romantic Comedy
Time travel film that feels like a romantic comedy version of The Time Traveler's Wife (with Rachel McAdams in the same role in both films). Played with a good deal of feelgood warmth and likeability by all
Ex Machina (2015)
Apr 18, 2015Android Artificial Intelligence
The field has been open for one work to come and set the benchmark for A.I. films. Alex Garland's Ex Machina arrives at that work. Rather than flashy effects, this resides in a series of beautifully cool debates and sharply intelligent twists
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
Dec 26, 2015Space Opera
It's not another Empire Strikes Back but it makes up for the prequels. A good part fanservice to the original – if overly reliant on rehashing elements from Star Wars – this also does many things right
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
Jan 27, 2018Winnie the Pooh's Creator Biopic
Biopic of A.A. Milne that tells the story of how he came up with his most famous creation Winnie the Pooh. The film takes some time to warm to, but eventually opens up with some heartwarming charms
Mother! (2017)
Dec 16, 2017Surreal Allegorical Drama
Darren Aronofsky's surreal drama wildly divided critics and was a box-office flop with general audiences. Naturally, what I thought the film was about was completely different to what Aronofsky stated it was about
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
Mar 17, 2018Space Opera
I'm not one of the haters on this. It's the first Star Wars sequel since the 1980s to invigorate the series with fresh action sequences and place more focus on the characters instead of the action
Peter Rabbit (2018)
Apr 29, 2018Talking Animals
Beatrix Potter wrote genteel stories of talking animals in the English countryside. This is a film so astonishingly awful in its treatment of the source material - it feels like someone drunkenly urinating on Beatrix Potter's gravestone for lulz. The No 1 contender for Worst Film of 2018
The Little Stranger (2018)
Apr 6, 2020Ghost Story
Adaptation of a ghost story from Sarah Waters, an author who usually specialises in literary Victorian lesbian bodice rippers. The ghost story is an overmined genre but this is a not uninteresting venture into the field
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Mar 21, 2020Space Opera
The concluding chapter of the third trilogy of Star Wars films. After the critically divided The Last Jedi, J.J. Abrams opts for a return to the safety of familiarity and nostalgia
Peter Rabbit 2 (2021)
Oct 3, 2022Talking Animals
The first Peter Rabbit film was an abomination that trashed Beatrix Potter’s genteel stories. It made this site’s Worst of 2018 list. This is a sequel
Fountain of Youth (2025)
Jun 6, 2025Quest for the Fountain of Youth/Adventure Film
Guy Ritchie makes an adventure film that pays homage to Indiana Jones and a host of other works concerning the quest for the Fountain of Youth. A superficial film killed by its constantly distracting flip banter