Movie Reviews
Movie reviews are our specialty and passion. We deliver ratings and insights on films of all genres and sizes—from blockbuster hits to independent gems and streaming platform originals. Here is our extensive collection of reviews where we give our final opinion on many movies.
We also do TV Reviews too.
‘Our Times’ Review – True Love Is Your Husband Being Surplus to Requirements
Blimey, this is going to annoy people, isn’t it? The underlying thesis of Our Times, a Netflix rom-com about two married physicists who accidentally travel...
‘Ballerina’ Reminded me that the ‘World of John Wick’ is Worth our Time
There’s always a risk when you expand a universe–a fact that has sparked social media debate over the limits of the MCU–but Ballerina was the...
‘Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy’ Review – A Horrifying Account Of Flagrant Malpractice
Netflix love a themed series. In the absence of Untold – which concluded its fifth “season” with Shooting Guards, The Liver King, and The Fall...
‘The Salt Path’ – Film Adaptation Is a Beautiful Story on Resilient Marriage
It’s rare these days that we are delivered a film that brings a resounding green light on the sanctity of marriage. Often, we are presented...
‘K.O.’ Review – Gaudy French Actioner Provides Decent Fighting But Nothing Else
If you cast an MMA fighter in the lead role of a movie, it’s a fairly obvious statement about what that movie is intended to...
‘Lost in Starlight’ Review – A Beautiful Animated Romance Treads New Ground
Lost in Starlight is something of a first. It has been branded as Netflix’s first Korean animated feature, which is technically accurate, despite the prevalence...
‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review – Standalone Slasher Fails to Live Up To Its Title
Hey, remember the Fear Street trilogy? What a surprising success that was for Netflix. At least partially a consequence of an unprecedented global health crisis...
‘Fountain of Youth’ Review – An Uninspired Forgery Of Countless Better Treasure-Hunting Classics
There’s a moment in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth when treasure hunter Luke Purdue (John Krasinski, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) steals a Rembrandt painting from...
‘Sarah Silverman: PostMortem’ Review – A Deeply Personal Show Still Finds the Laughs
Dark humour is a safety mechanism, a release valve for when the pressure of real life gets too much to handle. If we can laugh...
‘Untold: The Fall of Favre’ Review – An Eye-Opening Insight Into Power and Privilege
Well, we’d better be careful with this one, folks. You can say a lot about Brett Favre, but at least you can’t accuse him of...
‘Untold: The Liver King’ Review – A Hilarious Charade, Both Intentionally and Unintentionally
Brian Johnson, aka The Liver King, is a fascinating subject for Netflix’s Untold because he’s at once both a ridiculous charlatan and an indescribably compelling...
‘Tin Soldier’ Review – An Inexplicably Good Cast Obscures A Thoroughly Terrible Movie
I have no idea what Tin Soldier is, where it came from, how it was released, or who thought it’d be a good idea. Only...
‘Nonnas’ Review – Netflix’s Frictionless Foodie Drama Is Just Charming Enough
Sometimes a movie exists for no better reason than to simply mind its business, and that’s very much the vibe I get from Nonnas. It’s...
‘Bad Influence’ Review – Netflix’s Spanish Teen Erotica Hits The Usual Notes
There’s a very simple and obvious formula for a movie like Bad Influence, which shouldn’t be confused with Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, a...
‘Untold: Shooting Guards’ Review – This Is The Pettiest High-Profile Sports Story Of All Time
It wouldn’t quite be accurate to call Untold: Shooting Guards a tale of two halves, but it’s pretty close. At a certain point in the...
‘Exterritorial’ Review – A Very Competent Action Thriller With A Handful Of Underused Ideas
Straightforward European action movies are ten-a-penny on Netflix – we had, say, Ad Vitam recently, but it’s rubbish, so don’t think about it too much...
‘Havoc’ Review – A Movie That Lives Up To Its Title, If Not Its Director’s Reputation
Gareth Evans is a bona fide legend already, since the guy who made The Raid: Redemption deserves to live in eternal infamy as an action...
‘Bullet Train Explosion’ Review – Netflix’s Sluggish Remake Isn’t In A Hurry to Get Anywhere
Let’s just clear up any confusion. Bullet Train Explosion is nothing to do with David Leitch’s demented 2022 action-comedy Bullet Train, though it would perhaps...