Reviews

I’ll start with the positives- it won’t take long. It’s fun and it’s pretty well done. That’s about it. If you have a fourteen year old gamer brother who is …

When you use words like “elegant”, “exquisite”, and “sumptuous” to describe something, there comes an unavoidable sense of pretension that clouds all else. When you use them to describe Phantom …

Dark, brooding and savagely violent, You Were Never Really Here never loosens its grip on your attention. Lynne Ramsay’s newest film smacks of the same neon saturated sleeplessness of Martin …

Centuries ago, a meteorite struck central Africa; an alien metal made of ‘vibranium’, was perceived to be a spiritual source of power. The influence of this meteorite affected the fauna and …

I, Tonya, the true story of American figure skater Tonya Harding, could have been a lot of different things. A failed, faux figure-skating Rocky; a mean-spirited take-down; a desperate, pandering …

Witty, poignant, and apparently controversial, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri has – since snapping up four Golden Globes and a number of BAFTAs – suddenly established a divisive place for itself …

“It’s not even human.” Our mute protagonist, Elisa, responds: “if we do nothing, neither are we.” Guillermo del Toro gushes back onto the big screen with the aquatic, gothic-fantasy film The …

It’s a curious thing for a film to feel as if it’s been handled with stylistic competence and boast utterly exquisite mise-en-scène – and yet fail to amount to much of anything. …

The extent to which you’ll enjoy Molly’s Game, the directorial debut of screenwriting icon Aaron Sorkin, may largely depend on your previous response to Sorkin’s movies. The West Wing creator’s …

There’s a dryness to the musical biopic.  They’ll noodle through the same beats: childhood, fame, decline, and were they actually a bastard?  You can see the results of this approach everywhere, …