Movie Reviews

When the first teaser trailer dropped for Lee Chang-Dong’s Burning, it was a shock to the senses. As trailers go, Burning ticked all the right boxes,...

My love for battle rap predates my current career as a mean-spirited producer of words, but the two things are inextricably linked. The underground world...

There are moments in Chloe Zhao’s The Rider that is so beautifully shot that I have a feeling the character Ricky from American Beauty would...

Monster is a nasty little low-budget indie horror film from the minds of Matt Shaw and Michael Bray, adapted from their novel of the same...

Prodigy is from writer and director Nathan Leon in his feature film debut, starring Cory Kays, Hailey Henry and newcomer Embry Johnson, and is a...

When Battle begins, it’s difficult not to see it as merely a Norwegian version of Save the Last Dance. Unfortunately for Battle, it struggles to...

Plagi Breslau (Plagues of Breslau) opens with a parcel being found in a market. It’s made up of a sewn-together hide of a high-quality bull,...

Netflix is well and truly in the spirit of Christmas. First off we got the silly The Christmas Chronicles, followed by the nonsensical A Christmas Prince: The...

At around the halfway point of Time Share, I was frustrated. I felt unsure of the story and wondered if there was an end goal to the...

At any point, on any given day, there are nearly 500,000 children in the foster care system in the United States. On average, children remain...

I’m not entirely sure who a movie like The Tribe is for. The film, which debuted on Netflix last week, is an Italian comedy about...

Now that Netflix is so intimately tied to the very idea of relationships, it only makes sense that the streaming giant should cater to those...

I hate to rain on any parades here, but I think we really should be way more excited about Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle when...

Imitation Girl saunters around with the best of science-fiction, in my opinion, because it introduces sci-fi elements into a world otherwise recognizably modern. While there...

After travelling to the Disney fansite Oh My Disney!, there is a scene in Ralph Breaks the Internet in which Vanellope comes face to face...

As I’ve mentioned before, the Rocky franchise is nothing if not formulaic. There’s a comfort to that consistent structure; it’s reliable, like a training routine–it’s something...

Robin Hood is an absolute mess. It’s hard to come up with a film that tries so hard to stylize each scene that ends up...

With it being fight month here at Ready Steady Cut what better time than to revisit an early version of the boxing movie, one of...