Movie Reviews

Christopher Robin is a sneaky film, and if I’m being honest a little bit sadistic. Ostensibly aimed at children who’ll be too young and distracted...

From the opening scenes of Hot Summer Nights, the unnamed narrator directs our attention to stories and believability. The story we’re about to see is mostly...

Netflix continues, sniper-like, to target the South Asian market with Nikhil Bhat’s Brij Mohan Amar Rahe, otherwise known as Long Live Brij Mohan, although the...

Le Manoir made its mark at genre film festivals last year; Netflix has now picked it up for global distribution, put the translated title The...

Our House begins with a preoccupied Ethan (Thomas Mann) ditching family dinner to go work on a groundbreaking experiment back at school. They cause a blackout...

Flavors of Youth (Si shi qing chun) is the kind of gig that sentimental people will enjoy. The anime feature provides three different tales of youth...

At this point, if you go anywhere near a cabin the woods, you’re just asking for trouble. Brad Baruh’s Dead Night – as generic a...

Tully unflinchingly depicts the intense routine of the early days of motherhood, with Theron truly playing a woman nearing the edge of desperation. Diablo Cody and...

Any tension to be found in The Row, Matty Beckerman’s new sorority slasher, comes from fretting that any of these insufferable oxygen thieves might survive...

Tyler Perry’s Acrimony is the first film by the prolific writer-director that I actually really wanted to see in theatres. To quote our fearless editor, Jonathon Wilson,...

It’s fitting that Ant-Man and the Wasp opens on Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) trying to entertain his daughter Cassie (Abby Ryder Forston) while serving his...

Tom Cruise is running. He always is. For at least half of Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the sixth film in the franchise, he’s running on...

These days, watching a Netflix science-fiction film is like picking through the bins of a high-end restaurant. You might, if you’re lucky, fish out something...

The Bleeding Edge is somewhat a human tragedy articulated by Kirby Dick. The Netflix documentary has no balanced approach, clearly blaming the industry, with systematic failures...

There are many films about people trying to stop a crime they just know is going to happen: The Warning (El Aviso) is another. And...

I’m an unapologetic advocate of Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer, from 2014, which rebooted the late-80s Edward Woodward TV series with a tea-sipping, classic-literature-reading, obsessive-compulsive Denzel...

Sometimes I put my cards on the table because of my views or experience: this time, it’s because of experience and views I don’t have....

Ah, the Happy Madison logo, the one thing at the start of any film that guarantees you are in for a terrible time. And Netflix’s...