TAKE ONE Magazine

Backrooms

Jim Ross — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:40:12 +0000

BACKROOMS is an eerily realised creative vision, but it’s difficult to escape the idea that it takes a suboptimal turn away from the technical strengths that give this adaptation such a firm footing.

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Köln 75

Carmen Paddock — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:20:56 +0000

Performances and occasional wit cannot save KÖLN 75 from being baffling and trying. Unlike the real concert, this film squanders what could be a great premise on a too-neat feel-good story.

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Hen

Jessie Krahn — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:01:17 +0000

HEN merely enables the viewer to take comfort that, although they may not have yet gone vegan, at least they've likely never chucked a living chicken off the roof of a building for their art.

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The Good Boy

Katherine Stockton — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:17:18 +0000

Despite its allegory that is as blatant as an audience might expect, THE GOOD BOY packs in a surprising amount of affecting moments, and the knowledge England’s Good Boys can only be raised by Good Systems.

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Michael

Jim Ross — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:44:26 +0000

MICHAEL will inevitably attract ire with its depiction of Jackson’s life, or, more accurately, what it seems to omit. However, MICHAEL is also an inexplicably boring film which is bland at best and cowardly at worst.

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Save The Ultimate Picture Palace

Jim Ross — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:05:25 +0000

If cinema is to survive as a community experience, we need to value and protect places like the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford, now in the middle of a campaign to secure its long-term future.

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Omaha

Jim Ross — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:03 +0000

OMAHA might not employ the most thoroughly crafted methods by grabbing the heartstrings in its fist, but the cast’s performances capture an honest empathy that is difficult to put aside. And maybe you shouldn’t.

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Exit 8

Jim Ross — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:15:42 +0000

EXIT 8 leans a little too heavily on [the 'liminal space'] aesthetic to remain fully engrossing for even the succinct 95-minute runtime, but the film finds its way much faster than The Lost Man did.

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Primavera

Nancy Epton — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:15:21 +0000

Visually dynamic and elegantly crafted, Damiano Michieletto’s PRIMAVERA is a compelling study of repression, suffering and earnest rebellion.

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To Dance is to Resist

Asia Lo Savio — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:00:21 +0000

Director Julian Lautenbacher [shows] bravery in choosing queer identity and dance as his documentary's expression of resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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