FILM REVIEWS

Kenneth Branagh goes big when he should have gone small, as though he doesn’t have enough faith in the episodic, nostalgic material. It's...

This Finnish movie only works if you are fully on board with the characters. I wasn’t, so the film left me underwhelmed. One of the most...

The familiarity of the plot and a lack of emotional urgency prevent the picture from truly engaging the audience. If the story of Haut et...

Belle is a visually stunning gem that deserves to be seen by as big an audience as possible. Belle, the new anime by director Mamoru...

The filmmakers deliberately don’t choose for a familiar feelgood narrative yet Délicieux suffers from a strange lack of subtlety. If...

This biopic of Venus and Serena Williams’ father is a perfectly fine yet frustratingly sanitised movie, elevated by a handful of...

The cycling film has many flaws, but its morals are by far its worst, as it sends a message that not getting caught cheating counts as a...

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 episodic structure causes C'mon C'mon to meander from time to time, but I thoroughly enjoyed this poignant throwback to the kind of...

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

On the surface the movie looks like a traditional biopic, but in the end the oddness and quaintness win out. I had never heard of Louis...

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...

There are enough scenes that pop, either visually or emotionally, to enjoy this coming-of-age story more than you would perhaps assume....

The imminent dread of the narrative and the foreboding backdrops of the rugged Icelandic landscape merge into a dark, haunting,...

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...

Licorice Pizza drags in places, indulges in star cameos and hasn’t got the most engaging of stories, but it’s never not entertaining....

The Tragedy of Macbeth might have worked better if Joel Coen had used the same rigorous stripped-down approach to Shakespeare's text as...