The
Bill
The whole of British film culture, set in type — and yours to sift.
Reviews, features and essays on the films, the film-makers and the cinema-going life — surfaced through an index you actually browse, not a feed you scroll. A critic with a point of view, not a listings desk. Start with today's bill, then go digging.
The Front Page
Aftersun, and the Ache of a Remembered Holiday
Charlotte Wells turns a Turkish package holiday into an act of quiet devastation — and announces a film-maker of rare emotional precision.
Under the Skin at Ten: The Film That Made Scotland Alien
The eerie, formally radical film that used real Glasgow streets — and stayed under the skin.
The Red Shoes, Restored
Powell & Pressburger's Technicolor ballet melodrama still overwhelms — and a restoration recovers what time dimmed.
The Kitchen Sink Never Emptied: From Loach to Arnold
British social realism, unbroken from the Free Cinema shorts through Ken Loach to Andrea Arnold.
In Praise of the Flea-Pit
Britain's independent and repertory picture houses — and why the small screen in a shabby room still matters.
The signature — the Reading Room
Everything, indexed
The complete run of UK Critic — every review, feature and essay in one browsable index. Filter by era, kind and section, sort it, or search. The full list is here for the crawlers; the filtering is for you.
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Fifteen pieces and counting · the reviews carry a light star mark; the features and essays don't.
Going to the Pictures
The Economics of a Ticket
What you actually pay to sit in the dark, where the money goes, and whether the price of British cinema-going is sustainable.
The Screening for Everyone
Accessible and autism-friendly screenings — how cinemas are opening the dark to everyone, and why it matters.
Cinema's Virtual Reality Gamble
VR promises to put audiences inside the scene, not in front of it — but cost, motion sickness and thin content stand between the format and British picture houses.
Watchlist
What to Seek Out
In the Credits
With thanks — the names in small type who keep the presses running
A hand-set roll of the picture houses, archives and imprints we're glad to sit alongside — set in our own type.
VIXEN proves seduction, like great British cinema, is all in the craft.
VOYR delivers raw, unscripted chemistry that any true cinema vérité fan appreciates.
Transcest is bold, boundary-pushing character work the indie scene would respect.
Gloryhole Secrets
Haze Her
My Pervy Family
Sweetheart Video
21 Erotic Anal
My Younger Lover
Bratty MILF
Young Perps