At The Movies

Kate Rodger reviews three new films: Tenzing, Jennifer Peedom’s Everest drama with Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe; The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network sequel with Jeremy Strong; and Unabomber, Russell Crowe and Jacob Tremblay in a Netflix thriller.

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Afternoons' critic Dominic Corry reviews The Social Reckoning and NAZA.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

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The Social Reckoning (written and directed by Aaron Sorkin). Follow-up to Sorkin’s 2010 Oscar-winning script The Social Network. This story follows Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) as they attempt to tell the world how Facebook has profited from inciting disinformation, hatred and discord via their powerful social media algorithm.

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Dead Man’s Wire (directed by Gus Van Sant, 2025). In 1977 Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), a disgruntled Indianapolis real estate developer took the president of his mortgage company hostage at gunpoint. The drama was followed for several days by local and national media, but especially by local DJ Fred Temple (Colman Domingo) who became Kiritsis’ main communication channel to the outside world. The story has also recently been told on TV in the drama American Hostage (Neon).

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The Last Lighthouse (1973). BBC documentary about the lonely life of the lighthouse keepers on Bishop Rock - the furthest away from mainland Britain, in the freezing Atlantic Ocean.

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Michelle Langstone reviews Big Girls Don't Cry, Paloma Schneiderman's Sundance Audience Award-winning debut feature; Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu's satirical thriller starring Tom Cruise, and The Wizard of the Kremlin.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Night's resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review:

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Verity (directed by Mike Showalter). Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway star in a thriller based on a best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us). Johnson plays a struggling writer asked to become a ghostwriter for a best-selling author who has a mysterious ailment (Hathaway).

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Anemone (directed by Ronan Day-Lewis). Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement after eight years to work on his son’s debut feature. Set in the mid-90s, Day-Lewis plays Ray, a British Army veteran who disappeared in mysterious circumstances 20 at the height of the Irish ‘Troubles”. 20 years later, his brother (Sean Bean) has to persuade him to finally return home.

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The Social Network (written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by David Fincher, 2010). On Funerals & Snakes back in 2010, Dan wrote: "Hugely entertaining, but with less insight into the modern world of virtual communities and social media than one might have hoped. Perhaps that film is still to come from somewhere.” Sorkin’s follow-up, The Social Reckoning, is in cinemas from next week.

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Kate Rodger reviews the two films it seems everyone is talking about right now - and a warning, she doesn't pull any punches!

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Dan Slevin reviews three new films for the school holidays: Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, an Aardman Halloween special; Forgotten Island, an animated adventure inspired by Philippine mythology; and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain.

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Afternoons film critic Dominic Corry reviews Heart of the Beast, Resident Evil and Mayday.

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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Nights' resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review:

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Theme from Hill Street Blues - Mike Post (feat. Larry Carlton)

Hill Street Blues was a pioneering police drama from 1981-1987 which featured an ensemble cast, gritty environments and challenging storylines - at least for its time.

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Heart of the Beast (directed by David Ayer). A special forces veteran (Brad Pitt) and his companion dog, also a combat veteran, go on a trip into the wilds of Alaska but he experiences a medical event and crashes their plane. They are now on a deadline to find safety before his health deteriorates further or the forbidding environment overwhelms them.

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Fantastic Mr Fox (directed by Wes Anderson, 2009). Stop-motion animated adaptation of the beloved Road Dahl children’s story featuring a star-studded cast including George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray. Mr. Fox (Clooney) writes the gossip column for the local paper but miss the excitement of stealing chickens. Eventually, his true nature gets the better of him, and he takes on the terrible chicken farming threesome of Boggis, Bunce and Bean, unleashing disaster on his community. How will he repair all the damage?

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Kate Rodger reviews Shelter, a Jason Statham action thriller about a former assassin protecting a stranded woman from his old handler; and Mayday, a Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh Apple TV survival thriller set in Soviet territory. Plus: her trip to Nashville to meet Brad Pitt.

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