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Film Reviews 2026

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Susan Kelly ● 10h3 Comments

This is a gruelling drama-doc using the actual recording of a 6 year old girl’s conversation with the Red Crescent office in Ramallah as she waits in Gaza to be rescued from the family car under fire. We only hear her voice - as the call-centre people did. They are all played by actors and there is some dramatisation of their interactions with each other - but not her.It’s a very hard watch and listen. Not for the faint-hearted.

Sara Nathan ● 4h

I thought Jessie Buckley excellent and the design also ace. But the script was really annoying, as was the direction.I didn’t find it moving and shed no tears.Which is apparently the wrong response but was shared by everyone round me at the screening I saw.

Sara Nathan ● 4h

This is dividing reviewers: 5 stars in the Times this week; 2 stars in the Sunday Times. Jessie Buckley is either the finest actress of her generation or over-acting something awful. You'll have to decide for yourself.You know the plot. Young William Shakespeare woos older Ann Hathaway (here called Agnes), gets her pregnant and marries her. They have a daughter and then twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet dies young of the plague. Will writes one of his greatest plays about a prince called Hamlet.The film looks lush, proceeds at quite a stately pace. It ends with the first performance of Hamlet.12-year-old Jacobi Jupe steals the film as Hamnet and must have a bright future in front of him, rather like his older brother Noah, here playing Hamlet at the end.Definite 4 stars from me.

Susan Kelly ● 10h