FILM REVIEWS

For a movie too heavy on religious metaphors and less smart than it continually thinks it is, The Creator still holds your attention for...

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...

Wes Anderson doubles down on every single one of his indulgent quirks in this Netflix short film adaptation of a Roald Dahl tale, yet...

Jennifer Lawrence's raunchy comedy has to work so hard to make jokes land that the movie never finds a pleasant, easy-going rhythm and...

Pablo Larraín’s neat parable about Augusto Pinochet, excels in visual storytelling, gloomy atmosphere and wry humour but thematically the...

Hercule Poirot goes oddly gothic in A Haunting in Venice which not only has a lackluster denouement but also never quite knows if it...

This year’s Palme d’Or winner is carried by an excellent Sandra Hüller performance but the credibility the film oozes in the domestic...

The Little Mermaid is yet another overlong, superfluous live-action re-imagining that might add a splash of diversity but skimps on the...

Despite a reliance on metaphors that are neither groundbreaking nor original Aussie horror flick Talk to Me is engaging, intriguing and,...

This charming J.M. Barrie adaptation is a cut above most of Disney’s live-action remakes thanks to impeccable casting, old-school...

Vapid melodrama and bland sexual digressions cripple the roundly disappointing Passages but the final nail in the film’s coffin is an...

As a drinking game about tired old thriller clichés The Memory Game has some mileage in it, but otherwise there’s preciously little to...

Renfield doesn’t exactly put a new spin on the Dracula tale, but the picture is surprisingly diverting thanks to a quick-paced plot, over...

Strip away the latino representation and DC movie Blue Beetle is hardly different from any other superhero flick of the last ten years,...

Even at 30 minutes long the Pedro Almodóvar western Strange Way of Life soon outstays its welcome due to an undercooked narrative, bland...

The spryly animated and stupendously entertaining The Monkey King deftly mixes classic Chinese folklore with modern storytelling and...

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...

There is a beautiful story at the core of Gran Turismo but the movie mostly swaps out emotion for car crashes and corporate game-selling...

The animation is suitably idiosyncratic, the characters are well-defined and the youthful humour and energy are laudably fun yet almost...

The numerous Nancy Drew references are an all too telling omen in Netflix failure They Cloned Tyrone, an odd match between a naïve kid’s...