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FILM REVIEWS


JUNGLE CRUISE
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...
Nov 29, 2021


HOUSE OF GUCCI
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...
Nov 28, 2021


UN MONDE (PLAYGROUND)
The strongest movie to come out of Belgium in quite some time effortlessly draws you into a touching, near-documentary tale about...
Nov 22, 2021


TICK, TICK... BOOM!
Despite the best efforts of lead Andrew Garfield this musical is frustratingly devoid of stakes, tension and, most tellingly, good songs....
Nov 21, 2021


GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE
If the latest Ghostbusters film could have sustained the nostalgic eighties momentum of its excellent first hour, it might have lingered...
Nov 20, 2021


RED NOTICE
The movie does exactly what is says on the tin and thanks to a game cast there is nothing wrong with that. Does Red Notice re-invent the...
Nov 14, 2021


THE FRENCH DISPATCH
Wes Anderson’s overbearing eye for quaint details strangles all the fun from a film that should have been a lot better than it actually...
Nov 10, 2021


LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
The exquisite soundtrack and production design aside, twisty thriller Last Night in Soho is a tonally misguided, style-over-substance...
Nov 8, 2021


BLACK WIDOW
Closer in spirit to a Jason Bourne film than to a Marvel flick, Black Widow is at its best when family dynamics takes centre stage,...
Oct 28, 2021


HALLOWEEN KILLS
The franchise that seemingly cannot be killed basically commits suicide with this entry: there are no scares, no plot, no characters to...
Oct 26, 2021


SNAKE EYES
The G.I. Joe movies were always not much more than violent cartoons, but Snake Eyes is not just bad and bland, it is inept on just about...
Oct 23, 2021


VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE
It’s an improvement on the atrocious first instalment but not by much, as sloppy editing, generic action and an annoying villain sap all...
Oct 19, 2021


THE LAST DUEL
Ridley Scott is incapable of making a visually gorgeous film, but when he has a script that fails to ignite and a mismatched cast, even...
Oct 14, 2021


BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
Winning Golden Bear in Berlin is in no way a guarantee for cinematic excellence, as this unfunny, perplexing and often outright bad...
Oct 13, 2021


NO TIME TO DIE
Daniel Craig says goodbye to 007 in predictable, surprisingly distant action movie that is hampered by a need to tie up loose ends and by...
Sep 30, 2021
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