The Instigators review – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck can’t save underpowered heist comedy
The Ocean’s Eleven veterans star in this Boston-set caper about a broke ex-marine and a moody ex-con hired to rob the mayor’s victory party
July 2024
A Place Called Silence review – secrets and lies in high school dripping with horror
Death Wish at 50: a reactionary and repugnant revenge thriller
Glen Powell: meet the new Hollywood A-lister who can do heart-throb, goofball or action hero
My Spy: The Eternal City review – Dave Bautista’s daddy-daughter spy comedy heads to Rome
Wendy Ide's film of the week
Longlegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller
Divorce in the Black review – Tyler Perry’s dull drama is his worst to date
Schlitter: Evil in the Woods review – tightly crafted horror turned DIY torture tutorial
Twisters review – Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones find whirlwind romance in weather-hacking 90s sequel
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Sleep review – marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller
MaXXXine review – Mia Goth chills in grisly conclusion to Ti West’s horror trilogy
Wendy Ide's film of the week
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – Eddie Murphy’s megawatt charisma lights up creaking sequel
Week in geek
James Bond has an Andrew Tate problem. The answer is to set it in the 1960s
Ben Child
The Conversation review – Gene Hackman is unforgettable in Coppola’s paranoid classic
Kill review – ultraviolent Indian train thriller is finger-cracking good
Cash Out review – John Travolta invests in Fast and Furious style failed-heist caper
Loop Track review – no escape for tormented hiker on horror trek to creature-feature hell
June 2024
A Quiet Place: Day One review – noise-free alien-invasion prequel starts with a bang
The latest in the alien-terror series finds Lupita Nyong’o connecting with stranger Joseph Quinn as the monsters terrorise a city into trembling silence
Poolman review – Chris Pine makes splash of totally wrong kind in shambolic stoner comedy
Pine writes, directs and stars – alongside Danny DeVito and Annette Bening – in this rambling comedy mystery about a shaggy, quirky pool attendant
Freelance review – John Cena fun in kind of pulpy action-comedy Arnie used to make
Cena and Alison Brie bring the genre up to date, with the pair comically adept enough to rescue this rescue mission from being a lame duck
