What’s Worth Seeing – or not – from 2023
As another year draws to a close, the film industry is still coming to terms with the impacts of two devastating strikes that
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What’s Worth Seeing – or not – from 2022
Another year has come and gone – and the film industry still hasn’t really quite recovered from the pandemic. A handful of blockbuster
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What’s Worth Seeing – or avoiding – from another Covid-affected year
After the world was struck by Covid in 2020, many people hoped 2021 would be back to normal, but despite efforts to encourage
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What’s Worth Seeing – or avoiding – from 2020?
Well, that’s a year that many people will be glad to see the back of – not least a cinema industry where social
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The Favourite Late Night Report is a Marriage Story in a Green Book: What was – and wasn’t – Worth Seeing in 2019?
2 of the best and 2 of the worst of 2019: Marriage Story, Ad Astra, Late Night and Green Book. So 2019 is
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Searching for A Quiet Place on the Isle of Dogs? Escape the Spider’s Web. What is – and isn’t – Worth Seeing from 2018?
A year on and the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal is still reverberating through the film industry – in the past week
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The Gifted have a Good Time in Dunkirk, not Hampstead: What’s Worth Seeing from 2017 and what isn’t.
2017 has been a tumultuous year for the film industry, courtesy of the man once branded “God” by Meryl Streep – the formerly
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Daniel Blake? Why Him when you’ve got Captain Fantastic? What was – and was not – Worth Seeing in 2016
Here we go again – another year has come and gone – with hundreds of new films having graced our cinema screens. Some
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Whiplash on the D-Train: What was – and was not – Worth Seeing in 2015
It’s the end of the year, so it’s list time – and what you’ll be wanting to know is what was worth seeing
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What if that awkward moment was gone, girl: What was Worth Seeing in 2014
There are few things that can keep a true film enthusiast out of the cinema. One might be the fear of seeing a
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I’m So Excited by Gravity: What was Worth Seeing in 2013
The best releases of 2013 explored themes of isolation – an astronaut stranded in space, a sailor stranded at sea, a cargo ship’s captain separated from his crew by hijackers – while the worst included disappointment from film-makers whose track records raised expectations.
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What was – and was not – Worth Seeing in 2012
It’s at this time of year that professional bodies and publications churn out their best-of lists, and so it is that we can also present its best and worst of 2012, which puts us one up on most, as you don’t see BAFTA giving out prizes for the embarrassment that shouldn’t have made it to the big screen.
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50/50 is about as good as it got: What was Worth Seeing in 2011
Looking back, it’s been a strong year for films, with 13 receiving four stars in our reviews and 2 getting four and a
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