1 hour ago BRIAN VINER reviews Christmas Karma: This spectacularly dreadful offering will empty cinemas quicker than an outbreak of dysentery!

Scarcely able to believe how ghastly it was after last week's screening with fellow critics in London, on Tuesday afternoon I went to the Odeon in Hereford to endure it again.

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28 h. ago BRIAN VINER reviews Wicked: For Good: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are magnificent in this extravagantly sumptuous sequel

Like last year's film, this one is extravagantly sumptuous on the eye.

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5 d. ago BRIAN VINER reviews The Running Man: A deadly game of traitors and faithfuls (with a billion dollar prize)

BRIAN VINER: This version of The Running Man is not a straight remake, although there's a wink to the original with big Arnie on the US banknotes known as 'new' dollars.

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1 week ago BRIAN VINER reviews Nicholas Hytner's The Choral: Too many duff notes in this sub

This week's good news is that Alan Bennett, now aged 91, has written a new original screenplay.

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3 w. ago Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere review: This is no fun watch, but Jeremy Allen White brings passion and conviction to this bold, intense biopic, says BRIAN VINER

Jeremy Allen White makes a plausibly tormented Bruce Springsteen, on the cusp both of super-stardom and mental disintegration.

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last month As Sydney Sweeney's boxing biopic Christy is trashed by critics, BRIAN VINER's review reveals whether she's the victim of a leftie backlash or her performance is really on the ropes

Christy packs a strong dramatic punch, as every boxing film should. Unfortunately, the blow lands below the belt.

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