FILM REVIEWS

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,...

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...

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

An excruciatingly tedious biopic, completely devoid of drama, that reveals next to nothing about its subject, Priscilla could have done...

A fascinating, controversial figure gets the bland, safe biopic treatment in Golda, which gives as little insight in former Israëli PM...

Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s peels away layers of mystery, emotion and heartfelt insight into the human condition in the touching Monster, which...

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...

A story historically steeped in exploitative voyeurism gets a human, heartfelt rendition in Society of the Snow, even if the film is...

Suspense and indignation combine unevenly in unapologetic message movie How to Blow Up a Pipeline, in which fine performances from an...

The utterly charming and wonderfully animated Robot Dreams effortlessly sweeps you along from one anecdotal scene to the next, until the...

Alexander Payne fashions a curmudgeon, elegiac Christmas in The Holdovers yet he infuses the movie with such humour, warmth and indelible...

Astute, tremendously relatable observations about love, regret and lives not lived permeate the gentle gem Past Lives, culminating in a...

Emerald Fennell doubles down on the many flaws of her first feature in Saltburn, a maddeningly incoherent, needlessly shocking, toothless...

With some more finetuning Bank of Dave could have been the undisputed feelgood film of the year but even in its current, thematically...

Combining artistic ambition with intimate drama Maestro sees Bradley Cooper make an impressive leap forward as a director. Alas the movie...

Despite my fondness for stop-motion animation I cannot deny that Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget has no real artistic or narrative reason...

Charming but understated to a fault, Perfect Days gives intriguing insight in the life of a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo but is so...