FILM REVIEWS

You wouldn’t think that combining Fight Club with a teen comedy could ever work but during stretches of Bottoms it actually does, even if...

A confection as saccharine sweet and indulgent as new musical prequel Wonka won’t be to everyone’s taste but I found it to be an ideal...

Interesting characters, intriguing ambiguous drama and fine acting draw you into The Teachers’ Lounge until the third act takes a...

I wouldn’t call it a dumb film but Dumb Money certainly struggles to find the right balance between themes and characters, while a...

After initially struggling with a coherent tone of voice Blackberry finds its footing about 30 minutes in, even if the movie never quite...

One or two fun characters and scenes do not disguise that Leo is visually drab, that a majority of the jokes don’t land and that the...

Ridley Scott stages exciting epic battles in Napoleon but he fails to build a compelling movie around them, mostly because he sees the...

As a classic tale of crime and punishment this Italian cop thriller keeps you entertained with polished direction and a pulsating synth...

Coming on the heels of a glut of Civil Rights movies in the past decade Rustin doesn’t tell a tale you don’t already know, nor does it do...

I was less annoyed and more entertained by The Marvels than by other recent Marvel movies but that doesn’t make the film any less of a...

Based on a true story about human endurance, Nyad requires quite a bit of endurance to sit through itself: the picture is bland, has zero...

There are many moments in Quiz Lady that are way too manic and broadly comedic for my taste, but the movie builds towards a poignant...

In The Old Oak director Ken Loach brings his career to a close as you’d expect him to: with a story that highlights social injustice with...

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

Ari Aster seems to be mostly exorcising his own demons in Beau is Afraid, a movie whose opening hour is not without merits but then...

Brandon Cronenberg’s laboured satire of a bored wealthy class, isn’t half as clever as it wants to be nor nearly as horrifying or...

The Boy and the Heron is an enigmatic swan song for Hayao Miyazaki: despite the dynamic animation and vibrant character designs the movie...

The Killer is as stylish a movie as you'd expect from David Fincher, and probably his most breezily entertaining effort since Panic Room,...

A fascinating story of greed, violence and racism gets the epic treatment in Scorsese's latest but despite some striking images the film...

Having ruined the Halloween franchise David Gordon Green does the same for another classic horror series in The Exorcist: Believer, a...