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Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.

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‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review – Standalone Slasher Fails to Live Up To Its Title

May 24 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 24 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 20 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 20 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 13 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 10 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 6 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

May 1 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

April 27 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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

April 23 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

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...

‘The King of Kings’ Review – All-Star Animation Repackages the Story Of Jesus As A Brisk Children’s Tale

April 9 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Gone are the days, or so we thought, of the big-budget Biblical epic, the kind of Old Hollywood mainstay that attracted the best talent and...

‘Con Mum’ Review – A Thoroughly Miserable, Formulaic Scam Documentary

March 25 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

You probably know what to expect from a Netflix documentary titled Con Mum. And, for the most part, that’s what you get. The 90-minute film...

Revelations (2025) Review – A Well-Balanced Korean Crime Thriller That Handles The Themes With Precision

March 21 2025, by Daniel Hart

If you were to summarize the Korean crime film Revelations, you’d come to the consensus that the story is about testing one’s moral framework, with...

‘Tyler Perry’s Duplicity’ Review – More Bizarre, Soapy Streaming Nonsense

March 20 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

The most charitable thing I’m willing to say about Tyler Perry’s Duplicity is that it probably won’t end up being the worst movie of the...

‘Bert Kreischer: Lucky’ Review – The Least Funny Man In Comedy Somehow Entertains Again

March 18 2025, by Jonathon Wilson

Bert Kreischer is one of the least funny people to have ever had a successful career in comedy, so it’s fitting that his fourth Netflix...