FILM REVIEWS

The picture’s climax – and plenty of other scenes - could easily be mistaken for an episode of camp eighties TV show The A-Team. It used...

The Night House shows that mood, atmosphere and a fine lead performance mean nothing if the denouement falls flat on its face. Mood and...

The film looks like a million bucks, but beyond the gloss lies a movie that’s emotionally hollow, bloated and self-indulgent. With...

The picture might have its heart in the right place, a lack of memorable songs or fine acting performances make it hardly worth talking...

The film makes a boggling muddle of what should be a straightforward premise and displays a curious lack of style and adrenaline. What to...

Far from exhilarating visuals and characters drawn in the broadest of strokes compound the problem of a by-the-numbers narrative. A young...

Despite the many big names in cast and crew, The Tender Bar barely uses a compelling visual language to tell its bland story. You cannot...

Despite an ultra-brief runtime of 75 minutes, Mandibles is as boring as it is odd and as frustrating as it is misguided. The latest entry...

It might be better than the previous film in the franchise, but the poorly executed The King’s Man still contains an overload of...

The picture never finds the right tone of voice, struggles for wit and takes an awful long time to go from one story beat to the next. If...

Even the action sequences and special effects pale in comparison to the ground-breaking work of the first film. During the way too meta...

Despite the crowd-pleasing fan service, there's no excuse for any movie to be as lazily scripted, thematically muddled or sloppily edited...

I can only recommend this film to people willing to stomach the two-hour long metaphors Larrain bluntly uses to show Diana is a caged...

If The Hand of God was supposed to be a very personal film for director Paolo Sorrentino, you never feel it. Once again nodding and...

The newest fillm by Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar is essentially a filmed play that lays bare the flaws in the director's recent...

Leos Carax lets the audience down by stretching out a simplistic narrative over two hours and all but ignoring the most intriguing themes...

A movie made by committee that is so derivative that even the charms of Dwayne Johnson or Emily Blunt are tossed aside. If you've ever...

Ridley Scott makes a film so tedious that even the pantomime Italian accent of a stupendously bad Jared Leto fails to wake you up. In his...

Despite the best efforts of lead Andrew Garfield this musical is frustratingly devoid of stakes, tension and, most tellingly, good songs....

In a movie filled with characters you couldn’t care less about, debut helmer Jeroen Perceval’s obnoxiously loud direction is the least of...