Movie Reviews

Paul Feig – bespectacled, rumpled, perpetually-tailored, like a harangued insurance salesman – doesn’t look like an especially funny guy. He must be, though, to keep...

When particularly violent criminals are prematurely transferred from Young Offender Institutions into adult prisons, their files are marked with stars identifying them as troublemakers. This...

There’s a moment in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (the fifth of these movies – they don’t always put numbers on them) in which Tom...

If it bleeds, it leads. That’s the slogan of Bill Paxton’s ambulance-chasing “nightcrawler” Joe Loder; the words of dubious wisdom he bestows upon gaunt, bug-eyed...

We review the 2016 film Split, which does not contain any significant spoilers. Everyone loves a comeback story. In sports, in the movies, in life;...

You’d need all ten fingers and probably six claws to count the ways in which Logan shouldn’t work. For one thing, it’s not an X-Men...

Warcraft has the best-looking Orcs I’ve ever seen in a piece of media. Honestly. Despite all the horrible things I’m going to say about this...

There have only been a handful of times that I’ve felt truly uncomfortable being a sports fan, and almost all of them are attached in...

Whenever I watch a horror film, I like to play a little game. The objective is to guess how and when each of the characters are...

At about the halfway point of Creed, the seventh entry in the forty-year-old Rocky saga, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) fights a fellow undefeated light...

The other morning, I awoke to an email from a friend concerning his opinion on Jurassic World: “I’m glad they finally realized how fucking stupid...

The best scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron is, unsurprisingly, one we saw in the trailers, which I had the pleasure of reviewing. It’s not...

As a general rule, video games make terrible movies. This is a fact. Browse briefly through the catalogue of German madman Uwe Boll. Take a...

Arrival is a movie about humanity’s first contact with an unknowable alien race, which is funny because sometimes I feel like I’m the only person...

As a fun little exercise, I’d like you to imagine that every time I use quotation marks in this review of Annabelle, I’m also making...

When I sat down to watch Foxcatcher, ready to review, I had no knowledge of Foxcatcher. Didn’t know it was a real-life tragedy; I had...

As you are about to read this review, we have one warning and don’t worry, we’ll explain, but please, never watch A Serbian Film. That...

I know what you’re thinking as you ponder over this review. – and so does The Equalizer. Most critics won’t ever peep their heads out...