FILM REVIEWS

Despite all the ambition and formidable filmmaking on display in Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan never gets a complete grip on...

Perhaps as a simple pink fantasy Barbie would have worked, but the meta message movie director Greta Gerwig has concocted buckles under...

As far as exciting arial battles go Born to Fly doesn’t hold a candle to Top Gun, but the movie makes up for that with a familiar yet...

As usual the stakes are high in Mission: Impossible 7 but the plot, the characters and the excitement verge too much to the bland and...

The vivid characters in the sprightly animated Nimona go a long way in making you care for what happens on-screen but alas it’s the...

The fifth Indy film gives Harrison Ford’s iconic archeologist a decent send-off, with a fun dose of old-school adventure, even if it...

Call me a sentimental fool, but I fell head over heels in love with Pixar’s charming Elemental, which for the little new ground it treads...

Despite a winning Ezra Miller performance and the nostalgic return of Michael Keaton’s Batman The Flash gradually morphs from a...

Wes Anderson takes his idiosyncrasies more than one step too far in Asteroid City, to the point of self-parody you might say, beit one...

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts stakes an easy claim as the second best entry in the long-running franchise but that is faint praise as...

This sequel to the Oscar-winning Into the Spider-Verse is both too much of a good thing and not enough of a great idea. The visuals...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry might be likeable but it isn’t good: from the phoned-in morals to the by-the-dozen characters, the...

It’s hard to believe that everything that happens in Tetris more or less occurred, which hinders the film to some extent but doesn’t make...

This year's Cannes Film Festival opener neither talks the talk nor walks the walk in a period drama so dull and predictable even the...

A fun premise delivers some diverting, over-the-top scenes in Cocaine Bear before the picture has to find a coherent ending and utterly...

Even for those who have so far tolerated the franchise’s ever dumber plots and increasingly nonsensical set-pieces the downright stupid...

Still: a Michael J. Fox Movie doesn’t just coast by on the winning personality of its subject: the documentary finds an excellent balance...

The Super Mario Bros. Moviehews so close to the tropes of the popular video game that you feel as though you’re watching a nostalgic...

Overlong, underdeveloped and devoid of any new ideas Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 runs out of creative steam long before you’re put to...

Don't be fooled by the title: despite an abundance of well-executed horror tropes this sequel never feels like it truly belongs in the...