Movies

Five days into November, and I’m not only reviewing my second premature Christmas movie of the year, but weirdly enough, the second one with “Joy”...

Leanne Morgan is so southern that it can sometimes feel like a joke in itself, like someone doing a very exaggerated impression that, if it...

A Christmas movie releasing on the first day of November is really pushing it. It’s the film equivalent of those people who put their trees...

Originally conceived as a full series, doomed by a disastrous production and thought to be consigned to the great dustbin of non-starter spin-offs and supplementary...

I know what you’re thinking – does the dog die? Let me save you the suspense. No, he doesn’t. Indy makes it out of Good...

It has long been said that animals, especially dogs, are a cinematic cheat code. You can have a fairly run-of-the-mill story to tell, but stick...

I wasn’t a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, a too-glossy triptych boasting too many stars and a recursive storytelling gimmick that...

Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is built on a great idea, rippling with urgency and tension. Out of nowhere, an ICBM is launched at...

It’s very hard to come up with a happy ending in a zombie movie, which is probably why The Elixir doesn’t even try. This, I’d argue, is...

You can’t make zombies interesting in 2025. It’s impossible. The shambling undead in Kimo Stamboel’s Netflix streamer The Elixir are nothing you haven’t seen before. They...

This is perhaps a controversial thing to say, but having children tends to ruin comedians. This is not a unique phenomenon, nor is it a...

The Perfect Neighbor is an engaging and quite uniquely constructed true-crime documentary that, at about the midpoint, morphs into one of the most harrowing films...

Good News (2025) opens with a disclaimer that, while the story is based on real events, most of it is entirely fictional. And this largely...

It takes some real stones to pitch a movie like Good News (2025). Sure, retellings of vital historical events are ten-a-penny, so the idea of...

Look, nobody, least of all me, thought that Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead was going to have a happy ending. But I didn’t expect...

There’s no such thing as a victimless crime, which seems to be the underlying point of Netflix’s demented, bleak, hyper-violent Thai thriller Everybody Loves Me...

Vicious doesn’t have the kind of ending you can explain. Everyone who watches it will likely take something different from it and have a different...

A friend of mine’s dad once nailed his garden gate shut during Halloween to stop kids knocking on his door, which seemed a bit curmudgeonly...