Movies

Having spent over a decade as an entertainment critic, one of the things I have realised is that I have deeply unsophisticated taste. Ordinarily, a...

Eddie Murphy is a legend, there’s no doubt about that. His contributions to entertainment through landmark stand-up comedy specials and mainstream movies undeniably changed the...

Call me naive, but I genuinely thought that Mango was going to be a deceptive title laced with some kind of hidden meaning. But no...

Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s Baramulla exists at the intersection of genre, where real-life horrors combine with the supernatural kind, and the solution is, ultimately, a gunfight....

First impressions aren’t everything, but Baramulla makes some pretty good ones. Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s Netflix movie – one of the better Hindi releases in a...

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...