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Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.
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‘The Truthers’ Ending Explained – An Anticlimax Is the Point, But Not A Good One
The Truthers has what might charitably be described as an anti-ending. In the spaces where all the payoff would be in a more traditional murder...
‘The Truthers’ Review – The Mystery Is Whether There’s Even A Mystery
The mystery of Netflix’s The Truthers is whether or not there’s really any mystery to it at all. Everyone in it is paranoid about one...
Christopher Nolan’s Resilience Since 2020 Has Paid Off: How ‘The Odyssey’ Proves Serious Cinema Is the Only Way
2020 and 2021 were challenging times for Christopher Nolan. He had directed the highly ambitious film Tenet following the successes of Interstellar and Dunkirk. The pandemic came at...
How ‘Elize: Shadows of a Woman’ Adapts A Divisive True Story
In 2012, Elize Matsunaga shot her husband, Marcos Kitano Matsunaga, in the head. She then dismembered him in their apartment and carried the pieces, stored...
‘The Debt Collector’ Review – A Bruising Thai Thriller That Gets Bogged Down in the Middle
The Debt Collector (2026) is an exceedingly simple movie that occasionally hamstrings itself by trying to be a more complex one. Slotting very neatly into...
‘Elize: Shadows of a Woman’ Review – A Familiar True-Crime Story Retold With Mixed Results
Elize: Shadows of a Woman has a problem that it never quite manages to overcome – we’ve seen it all before. By this, I don’t...
How Ian and Angela Diaz Masterminded A Miscarriage Of Justice In ‘A Toxic Love Story’
As ever, Netflix is leading the charge on salacious true-crime stories that snatch the interest of genre fans and ignite that innate anger about injustice....
Netflix’s ‘A Toxic Love Story’ Brings Twisted Truths and Forced Narratives
Netflix continues to be the biggest platform for true crime documentaries, as they are popping them out left, right, and centre – in 2026, from...
‘Over Your Dead Body’ Review – A Funny, Messy Splatter Flick That Loses Its Way
On paper, there’s nothing especially funny about a husband and wife plotting to kill one another. Similarly, there’s nothing all that amusing about heads and...
‘Passenger’ Review – A Scare-Free Road Trip to Nowhere Of Note
There are some rides you’ve been on too many times, and Passenger is one of them. A go-nowhere horror movie clearly intended to pad out...
‘Mortal Kombat II’ Review – Whatever Karl Urban’s Getting Paid, It Isn’t Enough
Thank goodness for Karl Urban, honestly. As someone satisfied with being a consistently great bit player in massive IP, he has one of the most...
‘Mercy’ Review – A Surprisingly Gripping AI Thriller That Might Be A Bit Too Optimistic
AI is the villain of our times, the contemporary equivalent of zombies and Nazis when it comes to low-effort, morally uncomplicated bad guys who can...
‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Feels A Bit Desperate, And I’m Not Sure Nostalgia Can Fix the MCU
When I watched the official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, I felt something. A familiar pang of excitement, maybe, probably brought on by the main theme....
Christopher Nolan and ‘The Odyssey’ Have Made Lame Culture Warriors Look Like Morons
At the time of writing, after its gargantuan opening weekend, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has walked away with a gigantic box office haul. The epic...
The Success Of ‘Desire’ Is Why Netflix Won’t Let the Erotic Thriller Die — Even Though It Should
Rather improbably, Netflix’s Mexican erotic thriller Desire (Deseo) is the number one streaming movie in the world. This is despite the fact that, like basically...
‘Backrooms’ Review – In the Spaces Between Spaces, There Might Be A Movie
Backrooms is one of those great ideas for a movie that doesn’t work as a fully-fledged feature. It’s an ideal horror concept, granted, which is...
‘Obsession’ Review – Curry Barker Might Be the Horror Talent We Needed
There’s a do-it-yourself quality to Curry Barker’s horror hit Obsession that feels to me like it might represent the short-term future of the genre (especially...
Explaining ‘The Odyssey’: How Christopher Nolan Rewrote Greek Myth and Homer’s Text
The Odyssey is quite the journey. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem is an extraordinary movie, a bombastic, visually remarkable, thematically rich modernisation of...