FILM REVIEWS

Barbarian offers nothing but tired clichés and unimaginative scares, while frustratingly doing next to nothing with the backstories and...

A major flaw of this thriller is its tempo, while the acting skews towards stereotypes and the visual aesthetic of the film appears to be...

The second Avatar film will probably have an even lesser cultural footprint than the first, as James Cameron pummels you with bad...

Bardo indulges too much in its own surreal idiosyncrasies and has hardly any interest in satisfying anyone else but the director and his...

It's never clear what exactly drives the protagonists, both because the script doesn't address it properly and because the actors are...

The overblown, silly Indian hit never stops for believable character development, nor takes a breather from the relentless action and...

Saint Omer failes to secure an emotional reaction from the audience, partly because of the detached filming style, partly because the...

The Good Nurse contains enough harmless, easily digestible entertainment to more or less hold your attention, but there is no excuse for...

Where the picture truly stumbles is in the characterisation, as all the characters apart from Taylor-Joy's are immensely unlikeable,...

Much about your appreciation for Zillion, which sells itself as a Flemish version of The Wolf of Wall Street, will hinge on how much you...

For a movie that lasts an indefensibly long 161 minutes the plot of Wakanda Forever is very slight, not to mention excruciatingly...

Unfortunately the movie spells out the entire backstory in fifties flashbacks that are bland, overwrought and rely too much on the acting...

The film still carries the same flaws that the very first film of Belgian duo Adil & Bilall displayed, only on a bigger budget. Belgian...

Even the thing that is supposed to make the picture stand out - the fact that the title character isn't necessarily a good guy - falls...

The uninspiring direction is felt the most in the basketball scenes, which lack tension and visual prowess, while the performances can...

Even if Lena Dunham had opened up the tale to a broader audience, the plot is too predictable, many characters are drawn woefully thin...

I definitely didn't hate Amsterdam. Parts of the film I even really liked. But one can only describe the movie as a mess. Don't you hate...

An essential part of any successful satire is the need for a message that resonates. This is where Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness...

George Clooney and Julia Roberts do some remarkably heavy lifting but they cannot rescue this film's unconvincing central premise, the...

There is only one way to describe this Pinocchio: a soulless cash grab that is as wooden and naïve as the picture's protagonist. Was...