FILM REVIEWS

The premise and the title of Civil War hold more controversy (and potential) than the actual film, which is mostly a conventional...

After an often tedious first hour something remarkable happens in Evil Does Not Exist: the film blossoms as a disturbing parable on the...

So old-fashioned that the uplifting message no longer gets across, The Boys in the Boat is comfort viewing for a lazy Sunday afternoon...

Coasting by on the palpable chemistry between leads Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, Anyone But You isn’t quite a true romcom renaissance,...

Don’t expect a radical retelling of the Dracula myth in The Last Voyage of the Demeter but an old-school horror tale that would have...

For cinephiles in general, and Bong Joon-Ho fans in particular, Yellow Door is a nostalgic treat, but an overall lack of explanatory...

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a serviceable sequel that starts off well but gradually gets bogged down in an underdeveloped narrative...

The fun energy between Jack Black and new recruit Awkwafina adds freshness to Kung Fu Panda 4 and the action scenes are a blast but too...

Do not go hungry into French film The Taste of Things or you risk salivating two hours on end, not so much for the trifle of a story or...

The raw emotion and astute observations in rite of passage film How to Have Sex owe a lot to the excellent lead performance of Mia...

Is American Fiction enough of a satire to make a valid, stingy critique on the African-American perception or is the film mere...

If you want to spend ninety fun and entertaining minutes in a joyfully animated, colourful world Migration is just the ticket for you,...

There is a subtle, humane beauty at the core of intimate ghost story All of us Strangers and while I’m sure plenty will be moved to tears...

Based on a Flemish war novel, Wil struggles to translate the book’s hefty themes onto the big screen. With more moral nuances and less...

The Zone of Interest is unlike any other movie about the atrocities of the Holocaust, but it purposely strips away so much emotion,...

The Greatest Night in Pop does not become the greatest music documentary in recent times, even if the film makes up for what it lacks in...

It might have been a smash Broadway hit, but The Color Purple makes for a middling movie, where an odd balance between hard-hitting drama...

The unapologetically eccentric female empowerment fable Poor Things wows and confuses in equal measures, so while there is much to admire...

Biographical doc Wham! is always engaging thanks to smart editing and the use of fun old footage and interview segments, but the film...

Once you get past the often very broad action comedy tone of Marry my Dead Body the film rewards you with a sweet, poignant message that...