Review
- ★★½
- Streaming
Happy Gilmore 2 is here. But has Adam Sandler shanked it or scored a hole in one?
The celebrity-filled sequel honours the original with some amusing callbacks, but it could have done with more chaos.
- Craig Mathieson
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Blunt and charming, this French film about cheese-making is filled with pride
Holy Cow balances familiar grit with an equally familiar feelgood formula – but there are some more surprising elements.
- Jake Wilson
Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan can’t save this clanger of a film
In spirit, Four Letters of Love is a very slightly elevated Hallmark movie. But that’s not the biggest problem.
- Jake Wilson
- ★★★★
- What to watch
The Fantastic Four’s real superpower is bringing the fun back to Marvel
Starring Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby, this retro resuscitation is a welcome return to Marvel’s once familiar tongue-in-cheek tone.
- Sandra Hall
Paul Rudd, Tim Robinson and the art of social suicide
The new film Friendship is a comedy of embarrassment as a man with no friends teams up with an adventurous TV weatherman.
- Sandra Hall
I Know What You Did sequel is hooked on setting up another sequel
This reboot of the 1997 slasher movie has more ideas than the original, but makes less sense than these films usually do
- Jake Wilson
A ‘sacred monster’: The true story behind one of the first celebrities
There is plenty to enjoy in The Divine Sarah Bernhardt, but at times you feel as if you’re caught in a rapidly revolving roll-call of famous names.
- Sandra Hall
New movies to watch now: Smurfs, Superman, a gay rom-com and Spanish battlers
The Superman reboot takes flight, the Smurfs return, a deeply personal love story and a moving Spanish drama – here’s what’s new in cinemas now.
- Jake Wilson, Karl Quinn and Sandra Hall
Bollywood-infused rom-com makes song and dance (of course) of gay love
It has upsides and downsides, but this film from Canada is a satisfying masala of a movie.
- Karl Quinn
Does the new Smurfs movie find its thing?
With an all-star cast including John Goodman, Rihanna and James Corden, Smurfs boasts some appealing backdrops, a few neat gags, and not much else.
- Jake Wilson
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