Movie Reviews

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is the rare movie that is better in practice than it is on paper. Between the fussy title...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

To be clear, there’s a third-act action sequence in Pretty Lethal that is one of the year’s best, and will likely remain so. It’s a...

Mark Normand has always been an equal opportunity offender, someone whose material runs the whole gamut of hot-button topics, racial stereotypes, and gender cliches, with...

I get that now isn’t exactly the time for a jingoistic war movie about America’s best and bravest tussling with some problematic foreign power, so...

I’m ordinarily the first person to forgive a good action movie for all kinds of sins, just so long as it delivers where it counts....

Among all the low-hanging comedic fruits, religion sits somewhere near the top. And you can understand why. So many people take religion so seriously — like, live...

I don’t know how long you need to do something to be considered the “queen” of it, but Sommore is apparently the queen of comedy,...

Twisted (2026) is one of those interesting inversions of home invasion horror, where the seemingly unsuspecting mark of a couple of opportunist grifters turns out...

Tyler Perry’s Joe’s College Road Trip – to give it its full, self-aggrandising title – is not your average Madea movie. For one thing, Madea...

Katt Williams is one of the finest comedians who has ever lived, and his longevity has proved that better than I can. But in recent...

Mo Gilligan is a very good comedian. It’s worth reminding people of this out of the gate, since when a very specific act makes their...

Back in the halcyon days when it was generally understood that every live-action adaptation of a video game would be unforgivably terrible, Christophe Gans’s 2006...