FILM REVIEWS

An expansive cast that uncannily channels their real life counterparts is a saving grace for Saturday Night which on most other accounts...

The physical transformation as an extension of inner turmoil remains a powerful trope, but not as used in the lazy female empowerment...

If you like your messages blunt, your plot predictable and your emotions rather underwhelmed, Young Hearts is the movie for you. For a...

Francis Ford Coppola’s long gestating passion project Megalopolis combines garish visuals, truly horrible dialogue and vapid, overripe...

An old-fashioned Vatican-set potboiler with an exquisite cast, Conclave giddily twists and turns for two highly entertaining hours, but...

The constant dread and unease in thriller remake Speak No Evil do not keep you on the edge, as most of the thrills are predictable and...

The Broadway sensation gets a spectacular movie version in Wicked – Part One but amid the sumptuous visuals and the loud power ballads...

Despite yet another excellent Sebastian Stan performance and a great hook, A Different Man doesn’t totally convince because the film...

In terms of atmosphere, tension-filled build-ups and intriguing themes Heretic is an above average thriller, with an against-type Hugh...

The raw honesty with which writer-director Sean Wang depicts the awkwardness of youth in Didi delivers touching scenes aplenty, even if...

Even though the premise of My Old Ass doesn’t do much new with the concept of a young girl being contacted by her older self, the actors...

Led by a quiet Cillian Murphy performance Small Things Like These doesn’t simply go small, the picture goes minimalist to the extreme in...

You will (eventually) be entertained by Gladiator II, mostly thanks to a scene chewing Denzel Washington, but the sequel’s spectacle...

Essentially a Martin Scorsese hosted film course about the oeuvre of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Made in England is film buff...

Charm and authenticity win the day in Thai tearjerker How to make Millions before Grandma Dies, an unlikely but engrossing crowd pleaser...

I Saw the TV Glow wears its indie credentials like a proud badge, but with an opaque plot, muddled themes and emotionless performances,...

While Music by John Williams gives an excellent overview of the life and work of the master of the modern movie score, the documentary...

While there is the odd visual gross-out and a myriad of WTF scenes in The Substance the film contains no actual substance: the longer in,...

If Juror # 2 turns out to be 94-year-old Clint Eastwood’s final film, he goes out on a safe and predictable note with a pleasing legal...

The genuinely unsettling, cleverly constructed and smartly ambiguous Late Night with the Devil is a great showcase for actor David...