FILM REVIEWS

The past few years have not been kind to Flemish cinema and this inept, infantile, tedious film debut of famed local novelist Dimitri...

Francis Ford Coppola’s long gestating passion project Megalopolis combines garish visuals, truly horrible dialogue and vapid, overripe...

A horror trilogy that from the outset promised so much dimly peters out in the nearly unwatchable MaXXXine, a poor excuse for a fright...

An incomprehensible Gallic comedy without a single joke that lands L’Empire cringingly blends sci-fi spoofs and social realism into a...

Drive-Away Dolls is one of the oddest genre mash-ups I have ever seen: a barely watchable, unpleasant mix between an uninspired crime...

Odds are you will not see a more stupid, derivative, tiresome and plainly bad movie this year than Argylle, which has to be right up...

The only problem the unwieldy new Michel Gondry film Le Livre des Solutions is likely to solve is chronic insomnia as its disjointed,...

Building up excruciatingly long to a pivotal scene you see coming a mile off, Flemish literary adaptation When It Melts is as predictable...

If Coup de Chance does indeed turn out to be Woody Allen’s final movie – as is mooted – then the quality of his first French-language...

You have bad movies. You have inept movies. And then there is this god-awful sequel, which doesn't try to tell a coherent story or make...

Pearl looks like an uninspired aftertought to cult horror hit X, feels cobbled together on a rushed whim and should preferably be treated...

Wes Anderson takes his idiosyncrasies more than one step too far in Asteroid City, to the point of self-parody you might say, beit one...

Even for those who have so far tolerated the franchise’s ever dumber plots and increasingly nonsensical set-pieces the downright stupid...

It’s enraging that someone somehow greenlit 65, a film devoid of plot, characters, drama or any ascertainable point, that makes 90...

It would take too long to list everything that’s wrong with the unwatchable Magic Mike’s Last Dance, but a total lack of narrative is the...

Flemish film The Chapel is a damp squib because the screenplay would embarrass a first-year film student, let alone a helmer who once was...

Every attempt at comedy misses the mark, the editing lacks a pulse and the acting is annoying across the board during 90 stupendously...

If the narrative doesn't stop you from engaging with the film, the visual style will certainly do the trick: Peter von Kant is detached...

The movie builds up to a climax that deprives the audience of what the trailers have promised: a rewarding final confrontation with...

The acting looks like improv night at the Grand Guignol, the jump-scares turn the volume up to eleven and the final act is woefully bland...