Reviews

Fingernails
Fingernails Review

Love is painful and illogical in Christos Nikou’s bittersweet...

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes
The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes Review

Susan Sontag once wrote, “Good novels rarely make good films, but excellent...

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The Marvels
The Marvels Review

After a run of recent disappointments, the stuttering Marvel Cinematic Universe...

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Anatomy Of A Fall
Anatomy Of A Fall Review

This year, with her accomplished courtroom drama Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine...

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Dream Scenario
Dream Scenario Review

“A film is not the telling of a dream,” the French auteur Jean Cocteau once...

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Nyad
Nyad Review

Diana Nyad is a myth that practically writes itself. As numerous people in this...

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The Royal Hotel
The Royal Hotel Review

“You’re going to have to be okay with a little male attention,” the...

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How To Have Sex
How To Have Sex Review

Strobe lights. Sweat-drenched skin. Head-pounding hangovers, treated with hair...

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Bottoms
Bottoms Review

The first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club. The...

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Retribution
Retribution Review

Stop us if you’ve heard this one. There’s a bomb in a moving...

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Five Nights At Freddy's
Five Nights At Freddy’s Review

It’s interesting, after seeing an unofficial and very bloody film inspired by...

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Sumotherhood
Sumotherhood Review

Adam Deacon has had quite the journey. Having slowly risen through the ranks of...

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Doctor Jekyll
Doctor Jekyll Review

The first release from the latest incarnation of Hammer Films, Doctor...

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It Lives Inside
It Lives Inside Review

It Lives Inside is a film with commitment issues. It switches between...

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Cat Person
Cat Person Review

In December 2017, Cat Person, a short story by Kristen Roupenian, was...

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Pain Hustlers
Pain Hustlers Review

“I will make my life count,” Liza (Emily Blunt) tells herself at her lowest...

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Trolls Band Together
Trolls Band Together Review

You know the aesthetic: overexcitable tween with an unlimited craft...

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The Killer
The Killer Review

David Fincher is back on familiar terrain. His last film, 2020’s Mank,...

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Foe
Foe Review

It’s hard to make an original marriage drama and it’s hard to make an...

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The Burial
The Burial Review

Remember the John Grisham legal dramas of the 1990s? Those adaptations — The...

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The Pigeon Tunnel
The Pigeon Tunnel Review

Director Errol Morris (The Fog Of War, The Thin Blue Line) is gifted at...

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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Review

The last time we saw Taylor Alison Swift on the big screen, she was...

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Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Review

Suggesting that its heroes may not have their claws firmly on the cultural...

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The Miracle Club
The Miracle Club Review

The Miracle Club is the latest film in what could be described as the IMCU:...

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Totally Killer
Totally Killer Review

Slasher mash-ups (or ‘slash-ups’, as nobody is yet coining them) have...

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Golda
Golda Review

Getting to be Prime Minister is one thing, but have you ever smoked more...

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Fiar Play
Fair Play Review

If the BBC series Industry has taught us anything, it’s that the glossy,...

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The Great Escaper
The Great Escaper Review

When 89-year-old Bernie Jordan ‘escaped’ his nursing home without...

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The Exorcist: Believer
The Exorcist: Believer Review

Having completed his Halloween trilogy, David Gordon Green turns his...

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