FILM REVIEWS

From the beginning the picture is just slightly off: there are too many celebrity cameos, the actual plot takes an awful long time to get...

Bardo indulges too much in its own surreal idiosyncrasies and has hardly any interest in satisfying anyone else but the director and his...

It's never clear what exactly drives the protagonists, both because the script doesn't address it properly and because the actors are...

You'd be hard-pressed to call Pinocchio a bad film, but it's a lot closer to a let-down than it is to a triumph, partly because Guillermo...

The overblown, silly Indian hit never stops for believable character development, nor takes a breather from the relentless action and...

There's no doubt groundbreaking director Robert Downey Sr. deserves a decent documentary. But maybe next time, let a true film historian...

This creature feature strikes such a right balance between campy dialogue, fun characters and thrilling set-pieces that it's impossible...

The Good Nurse contains enough harmless, easily digestible entertainment to more or less hold your attention, but there is no excuse for...

Children up to a certain age will no doubt lap up the quaint characters and colourful designs, but overal My Father's Dragon is too naïve...

Despite a wonderful sense of mood, an excellent premise and faultless casting, The Wonder never truly grows on you. There is a lot of...

I could have done without the often condescending voice-over but that is a minor quibble in an excellent, thorough movie essay. I am a...

The budget, the stunts and the stakes are all raised in Enola Holmes 2, but it's to the detriment of the charms the original possessed....

This German adaptation settles for broad pacifist themes and mostly forgets to add the moments of quiet poetic power that made the 1930...

Visually the picture's world-building is impressive, but it doesn't back that up with a coherent, easy to follow, compelling central...

This bloated film frustratingly reduces Marilyn Monroe to a naïve, continually abused girl with severe daddy issues. In making Blonde,...

The vampire flick connects all the dots required for a formulaic action movie. Luckily the cast, especially Dave Franco, regularly rises...

The Gray Man is one of the most tedious, predictable, irrelevant movies I have ever seen in my life: it will put you firmly into a coma....

Filmed with flair by director Jeremiah Zagar, Hustle is high on heart, emotion and engrossing basketball action. Don't let the fact that...

Bubble is a mighty bore, punctuated by stylish flourishes of vibrant animation and top-notch action sequences. Most of the animation in...

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy Operation Mincemeat but I won't be thinking about the film often anymore. An intriguing true story goes a...