Movies
Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.
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‘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’ Ending Explained – Netflix’s Teen Romance Goes Completely Off the Rails
I know what you’re thinking – a teen romance about two radically different but implausibly attractive people has to have a happy ending, right? The...
‘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...