FILM REVIEWS

Amy Winehouse gets a mostly disappointing yet surprisingly entertaining biopic in Back to Black even if the engaging lead actress Marisa...

Drawing upon tried and tested western tropes, actor Viggo Mortensen makes a confident directing effort with The Dead Don’t Hurt, despite...

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes doesn’t add anything new, urgent or compelling to the franchise, with characters that lack nuance,...

An engrossing, sexy tale, directed with flair and boasting a trio of sublime performances: Challengers has it all, which makes the film’s...

The Fall Guy gives stunt people their due credit, but with a needlessly convoluted script and a surprising lack of chemistry between...

The premise and the title of Civil War hold more controversy (and potential) than the actual film, which is mostly a conventional...

After an often tedious first hour something remarkable happens in Evil Does Not Exist: the film blossoms as a disturbing parable on the...

Wicked Little Letters dallies where it should pick up pace, skirts big themes where it should be addressing them head-on and contents...

Drive-Away Dolls is one of the oddest genre mash-ups I have ever seen: a barely watchable, unpleasant mix between an uninspired crime...

If John Wick were Indian he might look a lot like the lead character in Monkey Man but Dev Patel’s acting skills prove to be a much...

By far the silliest entry in Warner's Monsterverse saga so far, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire eschews the human touch altogether and...

As a raw, unflinching portrait of a teenager fighting off parental abuse and trauma in an institution Skunk would have resonated a lot...

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a serviceable sequel that starts off well but gradually gets bogged down in an underdeveloped narrative...

The fun energy between Jack Black and new recruit Awkwafina adds freshness to Kung Fu Panda 4 and the action scenes are a blast but too...

The epic, visually resplendent Dune, Part Two builds on part one’s grand themes and rewards you with a richly layered tale about...

Despite an excellent lead performance by actress Daphne Agten, Flemish film Holy Rosita lacks the thematic heft and coherence to make it...

None of Jamaica’s most famous musician’s charisma is present in this Bob Marley biopic, not in star Kingsley Ben-Adir’s one-note...

Odds are you will not see a more stupid, derivative, tiresome and plainly bad movie this year than Argylle, which has to be right up...

The Greatest Night in Pop does not become the greatest music documentary in recent times, even if the film makes up for what it lacks in...