Movie Reviews

Netflix loves Christmas for financial reasons and Matt Rife for contractual ones, so it’s unsurprising to see the two combined in Matt Rife: Unwrapped –...

Troll 2 is so-called because it’s the sequel to Roar Uthaug’s surprise kaiju comedy Troll, which became a mega-hit on Netflix when it was released...

Champagne Problems has the perfect pop, fizz, and sparkle to make it a contender for the best Christmas movie in 2025. Director and writer Mark...

Even if you do not know the context, most of you have seen the famous Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War of the...

It’s late November, the temperature has significantly dropped, cars are frosted and frozen in the driveway, and that can only mean one thing: Netflix is...

Any comedian who has a sufficiently lengthy career and a certain amount of success is going to go through ups and downs. Kevin Hart has...

A film about the Nuremberg trials is unlikely to achieve near-perfection; the task is too great. For a start, a director has to encapsulate the...

I wish I were as passionate about anything as Guillermo del Toro is about monsters. This stands to reason, I suppose, since del Toro is...

I should be clear that Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams is a fine film, one of beauty, lyricism, and poignancy, boasting impeccable performances and striking imagery....

What would Christmas be without bland festive fare? Netflix is kicking off the 2025 holiday season with the usual dross, following the usual formula, which...

Having spent over a decade as an entertainment critic, one of the things I have realised is that I have deeply unsophisticated taste. Ordinarily, a...

Eddie Murphy is a legend, there’s no doubt about that. His contributions to entertainment through landmark stand-up comedy specials and mainstream movies undeniably changed the...

Call me naive, but I genuinely thought that Mango was going to be a deceptive title laced with some kind of hidden meaning. But no...

First impressions aren’t everything, but Baramulla makes some pretty good ones. Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s Netflix movie – one of the better Hindi releases in a...

Five days into November, and I’m not only reviewing my second premature Christmas movie of the year, but weirdly enough, the second one with “Joy”...

Leanne Morgan is so southern that it can sometimes feel like a joke in itself, like someone doing a very exaggerated impression that, if it...

A Christmas movie releasing on the first day of November is really pushing it. It’s the film equivalent of those people who put their trees...

It has long been said that animals, especially dogs, are a cinematic cheat code. You can have a fairly run-of-the-mill story to tell, but stick...