FILM REVIEWS

Strip away the latino representation and DC movie Blue Beetle is hardly different from any other superhero flick of the last ten years,...

Even at 30 minutes long the Pedro Almodóvar western Strange Way of Life soon outstays its welcome due to an undercooked narrative, bland...

Zhang Yimou doesn’t only strip away most of the colours in historical drama Shadow but the excitement, tension and character development...

There is a beautiful story at the core of Gran Turismo but the movie mostly swaps out emotion for car crashes and corporate game-selling...

The animation is suitably idiosyncratic, the characters are well-defined and the youthful humour and energy are laudably fun yet almost...

The numerous Nancy Drew references are an all too telling omen in Netflix failure They Cloned Tyrone, an odd match between a naïve kid’s...

Perhaps as a simple pink fantasy Barbie would have worked, but the meta message movie director Greta Gerwig has concocted buckles under...

A dark comedy that lacks a bite, with lead characters beyond redemption: only if you can stomach that uninviting mix you might find some...

It’s only toward the film’s finale that Cult of Chucky starts to become fun and even then it is for the most part entertainment of the...

As usual the stakes are high in Mission: Impossible 7 but the plot, the characters and the excitement verge too much to the bland and...

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts stakes an easy claim as the second best entry in the long-running franchise but that is faint praise as...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry might be likeable but it isn’t good: from the phoned-in morals to the by-the-dozen characters, the...

Despite all the pedigree involved Luck is one of the least inventive animated movies released in recent times, with a wholesome message...

This year's Cannes Film Festival opener neither talks the talk nor walks the walk in a period drama so dull and predictable even the...

A fun premise delivers some diverting, over-the-top scenes in Cocaine Bear before the picture has to find a coherent ending and utterly...

The Super Mario Bros. Moviehews so close to the tropes of the popular video game that you feel as though you’re watching a nostalgic...

Overlong, underdeveloped and devoid of any new ideas Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 runs out of creative steam long before you’re put to...

Don't be fooled by the title: despite an abundance of well-executed horror tropes this sequel never feels like it truly belongs in the...

Are You Lonesome Tonight? can never escape the feeling that it is a student film stretched to feature length, clumping together scenes...

Operatic violence and wild stunts dominate the overlong John Wick: Chapter 4 to such an extent that character, plot and any glimmer of...