Reviews
What the Cinemacaw team have been watching this week.
Reviews
Browse every Cinemacaw verdict, from new UK indies to festival discoveries and curated retrospectives.
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Holmes goes on holiday in Netflix’s latest. If the Enola Holmes movies were to have been released when I was a tween, I probably wouldn’t have watched anything else. The period setting, the mystery, the will-they-won’t they. It was like Netflix was able to dive into the mind of 12 year old me and extract…
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DC’s latest is perhaps more satisfactory than super. When Kara Zor-El’s dog Krypto is harmed by the murderer of Ruthye’s family, the two team up to try and take down the man responsible. In doing so they meet a series of strange characters, travel to weird worlds and uncover a worrying trafficking ring that they…
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Brett Goldstein romances J-Lo in Netflix’s new Rom-Com. Brett Goldstein could write the ingredients for a cereal box and I would read it. He’s one of the writers behind the stratospheric shows Ted Lasso and Shrinking, the 2025 release All of You and the magnificent movie podcast Films to be Buried With (a must listen…
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It’s toys vs technology in this new tale from Disney PIXAR. When I was younger, I loved Toy Story 2. The friendlier follow up was a staple in our house growing up. It was fun, it was moving, it was not quite as scary as Toy Story from which Sid’s Dr Moreau-esque toys frequently populated…
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Powerful performances from Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas in this fun film. Music. Family. Ireland. The movies of John Carney seem to centre on these central themes. Yet despite Power Ballad looking like Carney has made his music, family, Ireland film again, this feels more ambitious – and I think he pulls it off. Paul…
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Leo Woodall is in tune in this thriller. I first came across director Daniel Roher through his BAFTA winning documentary Navalny: a thought provoking yet oddly amusing feature which centres around the attempted assassination of Russian opposition Alexei Navalny. For my sins, back in 2022 I knew very little about Alexei Navalny and was left…
Ratings
We rate films on craft, story, performance, and ambition, as well as how much fun we had while watching it! Each film having an ‘objective score’ and a ‘subjective score.’
Objective Score – rating the film.
Subjective Score – rating the Cinemacaw team’s enjoyent of the film.
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