Movie Reviews

Ashley Avis’s film Adolescence understands the exhilaration of young love, and how beautifully dangerous it can be. It follows a young, shy, creative man named Adam...

In the French Netflix thriller The Wolf’s Call, known in its native tongue as Le Chant du Loup, François Civil plays an underwater acoustics expert by...

Argentinian film Blood Will Tell, or in its native language La Misma Sangre, gets off to an unreasonable start. The thriller begins with Carla’s husband’s (Diego...

At the start of Netflix Film Beats, I was genuinely concerned that it was going to lack the emotional buy-in because the opening is curiously...

There’s nothing much I wouldn’t say I like more than a hokey, cheesy, eye-roll enduring YA-novel film adaption. They seem to be the brainchild of...

The Dark Within is the latest horror movie from director David Ryan Keith (The Redwood Massacre), starring Paul Flannery (Ghosts of Darkness), Kendra Carelli (Guardians...

Netflix documentary Life Overtakes Me provokes an emotional reaction I was not quite sure how to handle. The cameras follow refugee families who have fled to...

A girl with a heart defect that is at risk of death by strenuous exercise, and a man who owns land and stables and is...

Netflix film Elisa & Marcela has been trounced before its consensus on Rotten Tomatoes. It can be assumed that the extensive sex scenes in the middle...

There’s a story behind Pachamama, Juan Antin’s environmentally-conscious fun-for-all-the-family animation that debuted on Netflix today. It’s a long one, winding back over a decade, and has...

Netflix German film All is well reminded of a recent time when I listened to the radio to hear a horrifying trend that rape cases...

When I was eight years old, I was picked on in school for drawing Mothra in my notebook (too “girly,” I guess). I was so...

Clinton Road is a horror thriller from directors Richard Grieco and Steve Stanulis, starring Ace Young (Bones), Katie Morrison (The Blacklist), Erin O’Brien (Tremors), with...

Chillin’ with Ma, a troublingly odious but bizarrely sensitive vignette of cruel manipulation, seems like a better idea than it is in reality. Spread over...

Sometimes a movie feels like it was created with passion, and sometimes it feels “pitched.” Brightburn is a pitch film, one that sounds like an...

I had some time to kill on Sunday evening, and in such circumstances like to try a film at the cinema which I know nothing...

For those in the know, the Scott Adkins actioner is a very specific, very beautiful thing, and his recent collaborations with the reliably demented Jesse...

The Curse of La Llorona is not the first film about La Llorona, but it’s the first I’d heard of. As an ignorant European, I...