FILM REVIEWS

Actress Rebecca Hall’s directing debut shows great promise but is let down by a moralistic melodrama narrative that lacks authenticity....

Wes Anderson’s overbearing eye for quaint details strangles all the fun from a film that should have been a lot better than it actually...

The exquisite soundtrack and production design aside, twisty thriller Last Night in Soho is a tonally misguided, style-over-substance...

Eternals might well be the most boring Marvel movie made so far, as it contains not a single character you’ll remember after the credits...

It’s an improvement on the atrocious first instalment but not by much, as sloppy editing, generic action and an annoying villain sap all...

Ridley Scott is incapable of making a visually gorgeous film, but when he has a script that fails to ignite and a mismatched cast, even...

Winning Golden Bear in Berlin is in no way a guarantee for cinematic excellence, as this unfunny, perplexing and often outright bad...

The Spy Gone North tries to be suspenseful and moody but ends up as a muddled, slow-paced oddity that will have anyone not well-versed in...

Jennifer Hudson anchors the Aretha Franklin biopic with poise and passion but she’s let down by a cradle-to-the-grave narrative that’s...

Tom McCarthy follows up his Oscar-winning Spotlight with a bland, generic and predictable drama about an American father trying to free...

Slick visuals don’t distract from a severely underdeveloped script that unconvincingly heads towards a climax so ambiguous it falls flat...

Once you get past the nun-on-nun action there are plenty of things to enjoy in Paul Verhoeven’s latest, but by that point the picture has...

The themes Cowboys touches upon couldn’t be more timely but the film struggles mightily to find realistic characters, a compelling...

If you’re in the mood for a bat-shit crazy movie that is more unintentional comedy than scarefest, Malignant gives you what you’re...