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Xan Brooks

Film Critic

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

195 pro reviews

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The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025)
Publish Date: May 20, 2025
"It’s rigorous and forensic and covers the ground with aplomb (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
The Room Next Door (2024)
Publish Date: September 1, 2024
"A hothouse Spanish shrub transplanted to stony foreign soil. It wilts and it droops; it almost gives up the ghost. Then when it flowers it feels like a small miracle. (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Wolfs (2024)
Publish Date: August 31, 2024
"[It] never amounts to much more than a silly, self-satisfied crime caper, but the headline stars look as though they are enjoying themselves and their sense of fun, by and large, is infectious. (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
I'm Still Here (2024)
Publish Date: August 31, 2024
"Salles’s imperfect, hobbled film tells us that hope springs eternal and that joy is a given and that most happy families will find a way to survive. (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
From Darkness to Light (2024)
Publish Date: August 31, 2024
"The tale [Lurie and Friedler] tell is purely fascinating (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Battlefield (2024)
Publish Date: August 30, 2024
"Amelio is a 50-year veteran of Italian cinema and tackles the action with a robust, old-school efficiency. He mounts a cumbersome, well-acted drama (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
And Their Children After Them (2024)
Publish Date: August 30, 2024
"It is at once intimate and expansive in the way in which it connects the low-rise estates to the posh homes on the hill (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
One to One: John & Yoko (2024)
Publish Date: August 29, 2024
"Macdonald and Rice-Edwards have managed to find and mine a rich source of material, tightly tucked away amid all the other wildcat wells (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Babygirl (2024)
Publish Date: August 29, 2024
"Halina Reijn’s film about a company executive’s carnal adventure with her intern is expertly done but suspect at its core, despite Kidman’s bold performance (...) Rating: ** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Maria (2024)
Publish Date: August 28, 2024
"Magnificent (...) It ground me down, won me over and by the closing credits, God help us, I was hoping for an encore (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Riefenstahl (2024)
Publish Date: August 28, 2024
"[A] deep-dive study takes down the Nazis’ favourite director (...) Rating: ***** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Separated (2024)
Publish Date: August 28, 2024
"It is an exacting, harrowing and quietly furious film (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Kill the Jockey (2024)
Publish Date: August 28, 2024
"It’s too skimpy and self-conscious, more a series of gestures than an organic whole. But Ortega frames his action with a delicious high style (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Publish Date: August 27, 2024
"This long-time-coming sequel doesn’t add much to the myth, nor push the tale in any radical new direction (...) Rating: ** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
The Surfer (2024)
Publish Date: May 17, 2024
"Nic Cage surfs a high tide of toxic masculinity (...) A gloriously demented B-movie thriller (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Coup! (2023)
Publish Date: September 7, 2023
"It is bright and assured and thoroughly enjoyable in the moment, even if its line of satire feels glib and its anger ever so slightly concocted (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Hit Man (2023)
Publish Date: September 4, 2023
"In the hands of a lesser director, 'Hit Man' would surely have felt rather thin and disposable. But Linklater is a pro, and he manages to make the film's fripperies feel borderline profound (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Sky Peals (2023)
Publish Date: September 4, 2023
"Eerie tale of lost souls at the service station (...) Moin Hussain’s arresting debut feature (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
Coup de chance (2023)
Publish Date: September 3, 2023
"His 50th feature might be a decent film to go out on. 'Coup de Chance' is variously funny and sad, energetic and easygoing (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

The Guardian
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)
Publish Date: September 2, 2023
"It’s not 'The Exorcist', 'Sorcerer' or 'The French Connection'. But it makes for a worthy late addition to the great director’s armada. (...) Rating: *** (out of 5)"

The Guardian

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