FILM REVIEWS

Despite a story that has enough elements to make for a diverting small-time hero film The Lost King is more winter of discontent than it...

Never mind the fact that the film looks like a Saturday morning cartoon, even as an innocuous palate cleanser amid bigger superhero...

You can add as many story elements about magic as you want, that doesn’t mean movie magic will suddenly appear out of thin air as The...

The movie contains moments that highlight the boyish charms of the characters but ultimately succumbs to the generic chaos of the...

Empire of Light doesn’t know what kind of movie it wants to be and on the few instances it does start to get interesting, a cliché script...

Look past the Brendan Fraser lovefest and you’ll find that not a lot of elements in The Whale, another tonally misjudged misfire for...

Florian Zeller should never be allowed to get away with the cynical audience manipulation he attempts in the film's irredeemable final...

Director Kormákur tries to spice up the proceedings by utilising relatively long takes but they cannot make up for a bland, tension-free...

Casting Tom Hanks against type is by far the best decision the picture makes but it doesn't remove the distinct, sickly sweet vanilla...

Forget about that Best Picture nomination: one can only call Women Talking an annoyingly self-important snoozefest. Women Talking is one...

Despite the introduction of new big baddie Kang the Conqueror much of the events in the film have frustratingly little impact on the...

Knock at the Cabin’s worst mistake is that the story is all text and no subtext, with a narrative that goes exactly where you expect it...

If only the scenes that successfully explore family relations would have been expanded upon, the bland and disappointing Alcarràs might...

The nearer Babylon approaches the three-hour mark, the more the realisation hits that you could cut just about any scene from the picture...

Operation Fortune lends itself for a fun heist, but in Ritchie’s hands the twists and turns are sorely lacking and the characters are...

A major problem of this movie is a cliché backstory that adds overlong convoluted melodrama to a film that should have been at least half...

The picture’s far from hidden agenda continually squeezes the life out of the narrative while Eichner makes for a too egocentric,...

The Pale Blue Eye never comes within touching distance of the tales Edgar Allan Poe built his reputation upon, as the mystery gets more...

Call Jane suffers from an underdeveloped script which grinds its gears far too often, and from botched editing, most notably in the final...

What’s supposed to be a darkly comedic look at mid-eighties America in Baumbach’s hands becomes a woefully unfunny, numbingly talkative,...