Movie Explainers

Ryuichi Hiroki’s odd, obscure, undeniably affecting romantic road movie Ride or Die isn’t easy to recommend. It also isn’t particularly easy to get a grip...

Netflix has another true-crime hit in the form of Why Did You Kill Me?, the story of the 24-year-old mother of two Crystal Theobald, who...

This article discusses the ending of the Netflix film The Soul, also known as Ji hun, so it will contain major spoilers. Read the review....

Love and Monsters was a very pleasant surprise, from its atypical hero in Dylan O’Brien’s (Flashback) Joel Dawson to its imaginative monster designs and its...

This article discusses the ending of the Netflix film New Gods: Nezha Reborn, so it will contain major spoilers.  Read the review. After a rollercoaster...

All throughout Night In Paradise, there’s never any suggestion that there’s going to be a happy ending. Likewise, you never get the sense that there...

The real selling point of Sylvie Verheyde’s interminable biographical drama Madame Claude is its basis in fact. The titular madame, Fernande Grudet, rose from a...

This article contains major spoilers for the Sky High ending. In its two-hour runtime, it’s almost comical how much… stuff Sky High manages to chew...

In many ways, Irul is a simple film. There are only three characters and one main setting, and the entire plot hinges on a single...

This article contains major spoilers for the Concrete Cowboy ending. Adapted from Greg Neri’s 2011 novel Ghetto Cowboy, Ricky Staub’s impressive debut feature tells a...

This article contains major spoilers for the Tersanjung: The Movie ending. Streaming on Netflix from today, Tersanjung: The Movie is one of the best films of the...

Throughout the story of A Week Away, Will Hawkins has to remove his bad-boy image and embrace the god-loving summer camp while also exploring the possibility...

There’s no real mystery about what, exactly, this anthological film is up to. Blood Moon isn’t coy about what’s really going on with ten-year-old Luna — I mean,...

Netflix’s young-adult romance drama Caught by a Wave is one of those films, like The Fault in Our Stars, in which one of the star-crossed lovers is...

This article discusses the ending of the Netflix film Get the Goat, so it will contain major spoilers.  By the time these cops have got...

As the film Slaxx enters the second act, it’s clear that the new brand of jeans has a life of its own, and they have...

This article discusses the ending of the Netflix film Yes Day, so it will contain major spoilers.  Read the review. When the parents in Yes Day decide...

Coven of Sisters imagines Basque Country, 1609, to be riddled with evil, so when Ana and her village girls were found dancing in the night, there...