FILM REVIEWS

This year’s Palme d’Or winner Anora contains small moments of well-observed humanity but makes the cardinal mistake of stretching the...

While Venom: The Last Dance isn’t quite as loud and obnoxious as the previous two entries, the buddy movie dynamic fails to yield...

A horror trilogy that from the outset promised so much dimly peters out in the nearly unwatchable MaXXXine, a poor excuse for a fright...

Good acting, a finely honed visual style and a timeless Faustian narrative are all assets to The Apprentice, but it would likely have...

A Cannes favourite earlier this year, Flemish 'me too' tale Julie Keeps Quiet is at heart a short film stretched out to feature length...

François Ozon titillates suspense and lurking secrets, waiting to be uncovered in Quand Vient l’Automne, yet time and again he withholds...

The narrative, the morals and the emotions of The Wild Robot borrow wholesale from other, similar movies but when it comes to the...

As much an excruciatingly slow burn as it is a film that flings stuff at the wall to see what sticks, Joker: Folie à Deux is a messy,...

A solid B-flick that isn’t nearly as twisty or innovative as it thinks it is, Strange Darling nevertheless delivers suitably pulpy...

The return of 26 pieces of stolen art to Benin serves as an intriguing premise for Golden Bear winning doc Dahomey but the film fails to...

A would-be epic that fails to sell its ambition and is narratively held back by the promise of three sequels, Horizon: an American Saga...

While the film excels in mood, Chinese murder mystery Only the River Flows is enigmatic to a fault and strands somewhere between a...

Wordless Latvian animated movie Flow is at its best when it lets the at times stunning visuals do the talking, yet it also exists in a...

The Juice is loose and Tim Burton is back on form in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, an energetic sequel that overcomes rushed plotting with an...

As far as movie anthologies go, Kinds of Kindness falls squarely in the weird category, and while there are a few intriguing ideas, they...

A musical unlike any you’ll have seen, Emilia Pérez has a ballsy narrative, thematic ambition and visual delights, with a spellbinding...

As stylish, suspenseful and exciting as Love Lies Bleeding builds towards the central crime, as laboriously and disappointing the...

In essence an endless series of violently comedic action set-pieces, Jackpot! provides a wildly entertaining match-up between Awkwafina...

Alien: Romulus effortlessly captures the aesthetics of the franchise but director Fede Alvarez riffs too much on fan favourite tropes,...

A cutesy idea is hamstrung by thematic incoherence and narrative slog in IF, which emphasizes the redemptive power of childhood friends...