FILM REVIEWS

Setting the story in an eastern cat world mostly works, the characters are well-designed and with its brisk runtime you never feel like...

When the film hits its stride, Argentina, 1985 makes for compelling viewing. The problem is: it takes the movie an awfully long time to...

The film's highlights are the wonderful costume designs, an agreeable musical score and a winning Lesley Manville performance. Before you...

This bloated film frustratingly reduces Marilyn Monroe to a naïve, continually abused girl with severe daddy issues. In making Blonde,...

What the film lacks in ambition it makes up for with genuine warmth and disarmingly straightforward animated storytelling. Even though...

The songs add zilch to the narrative, are mostly bland and boring, and often stop the film's momentum in its tracks. Like most movies by...

Nope is a movie that smartly plays with suspense and puts some exciting images on the screen but narratively the film is an almighty...

Red Rocket has an intriguing premise and during long stretches of the film you are definitely swept up in the hopes and dreams of the...

It's a shame that despite the fresh animation style and an excellent first act the film's story heads off into roads travelled once too...

In essence, Bullet Train is a live-action cartoon, and judged on those merits it's actually a pretty enjoyable one. There is a scene in...

Flee definitely has a distinct animated look, but the dramatic power of the picture is undercut by a lack of original touches to the...

The naturalistic directing style of Eskil Vogt lures you into its simple but effective narrative, even if The Innocents has glaring...

Javier Bardem is on excellent form as the lead character but the metaphors and social critique are layered on a bit too thick in El Buen...

Not all the gags land, but the slapstick antics of Kevin, Bob and all the other Minions are still good for an occasional belly-laugh....

A lack of originality is compensated by decent performances and an authentic visual style in Flemish drama Nowhere. A man still...

This Dave Grohl folly doesn't add up to much yet the picture keeps you remarkably entertained up to, but not including, the tepid final...

Phillip Noyce is an excellent director of action set-pieces but from the main cast of thee only Sam Neill gives a convincing performance....

The Sopranos prequel packs so much incident and backstory in its two-hour runtime the picture feels rushed and unfocused. I only saw a...

You get a pretty high entertainment value for your buck in this unabashed crowd-pleaser, especially in the astutely executed aerial...

A strong narrative rhythm is sorely lacking and the clunkily dialogue often pains the ears in David Cronenberg’s latest body horror film....