Movies
Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.
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Why Wanda Sykes’ Netflix Special ‘Legacy’ Didn’t Quite Land For Me
I walked into the Netflix special Wanda Sykes: Legacy completely blind. Having never seen her stand-up work before, I wasn’t sure what to expect, although...
‘Untold UK: Jamie Vardy’ Review – A Premier League Icon Who’s Impossible to Pin Down
Leicester City winning the English Premier League in the 2015-16 season is one of the greatest underdog stories in the history of sports, a 5000/1...
‘The Crash’ Review – Netflix’s True Crime Documentary Shapes The Digital Trial of Mackenzie Shirilla
Patience is a virtue – one that is particularly necessary for the Netflix true crime documentary The Crash. The film follows the story of Mackenzie...
‘The Punisher: One Last Kill’ Review – Okay, That’s Much More Than One
It probably says a lot about Marvel’s general handling of the MCU these days that there hasn’t been a so-called “special presentation” since the idea...
‘Michael’ Is Impossible to Review Sensibly, and the Sequel Will Be No Different
A few weeks have passed since the release of Michael, the biographical tribute to the late Michael Jackson – a man who could stand on...
The Apple TV Show You NEED To See If You Enjoyed Taron Egerton’s Villain In ‘Apex’
I have to say that I’m genuinely surprised by how many people are shocked to see a skinhead Taron Egerton terrorising Charlize Theron in Netflix’s Apex....
‘Apex’ Review – Charlize Theron Survives the Wilderness and a Cuckoo Taron Egerton
Whatever has motivated some of Taron Egerton’s recent career choices, I’ve got to say that I’m into it. He should probably never play a good...
‘Balls Up’ Proves Paul Walter Hauser Improves Anything
A while ago, I reviewed the movie Train Dreams on Netflix – don’t worry, this is going somewhere – and said that it was basically...
‘Humint’ Is A Shallow Korean Spy Thriller Elevated By Exciting Action
Most action movies treat their plot as a conveyor belt for fight scenes and their characters like crash test dummies, so on that level, at...
‘Untold: The Death & Life Of Lamar Odom’ Review – A Fascinating Study Of Addiction
At first blush, The Death & Life of Lamar Odom doesn’t seem like the typical Untold documentary. Sure, the life of former NBA star Lamar...
How the Ending of ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Sets Up A Sequel
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a consistently surprising movie that arguably over-delivers on all of its promises. One of the most exciting...
‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is the Best Streaming Movie of the Year (For Now)
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is the rare movie that is better in practice than it is on paper. Between the fussy title...
‘Primate’ Is Startlingly Nasty and Impressively Stupid Chimp-Horror Fun
You’re not supposed to root for the killer in slasher movies, or perhaps more accurately, you’re not supposed to admit that’s what you’re doing. But...
‘Hoppers’ Is An Exercise In Empathy That We Could All Learn Something From
Maybe it’s just me, but a Pixar movie release doesn’t seem as big of a deal as it once did. Hoppers is simultaneously validating (nobody...
‘Scream 7’ Isn’t As Bad You’ve Been Told… But It Isn’t Very Good Either
It is basically inarguable at this point that the circumstances surrounding the production of Scream 7 have coloured its critical reception to a not-insignificant degree....
‘Bodycam’ Has A Novel Premise But Goes Wildly Off the Rails
Immediacy is in vogue at the moment, and there’s nothing more immediate than a first-person perspective, something that video games have understood forever but that...
‘Shelter’ Is Mediocre Enough to Make Even Jason Statham Boring
I’ve argued in favour of typecasting before, and Jason Statham is one of my go-to examples of actors who do one thing well enough that...
‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Is the Worse Movie Everyone Expected Its Predecessor to Be
The thing that worked about Greenland was that it was an anti-disaster movie. It promised a world-ending calamity and eventually delivered it, but the impact...