Reviews

Woman Of The Hour
Woman Of The Hour Review

A serial killer taking part in a game show sounds like a nasty joke dreamt up...

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Christmas Eve In Miller's Point
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point Review

Featuring Francesca Scorsese (daughter of Martin) and Sawyer Spielberg (son of...

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Hot Frosty
Hot Frosty Review

There’s a famous New York café called Serendipity 3 that serves a...

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Magpie
Magpie Review

This debut thriller from theatre director Sam Yates (Vanya, featuring Andrew...

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Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These Review

Perhaps it’s appropriate that a story about a coal man should be an extremely...

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Gladiator II
Gladiator II Review

As he enters his 88th year, Ridley Scott seems to be having more fun than ever....

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Piece By Piece
Piece By Piece Review

“It’s happening,” goes a lyric sung over the opening titles of Piece By...

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Red One
Red One Review

It’s hard to honour Christmas in your heart every day when a new movie about...

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Bird
Bird Review

Following the likes of her previous films Fish Tank and American Honey, writer...

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Paddington In Peru
Paddington In Peru Review

The bar for the bear has been raised awfully high. A decade ago, the polite,...

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Heretic
Heretic Review

As the years advance and we all draw closer to our dotage, we should each of us...

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Emilia Pérez
Emilia Pérez Review

Here is an unusual film from a restless mind. French filmmaker Jacques...

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Time Cut
Time Cut Review

For Millennials, Time Cut opens with perhaps the scariest cinematic moment of...

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Blitz
Blitz (2024) Review

There’s a scene early on in Steve McQueen’s Blitz in which Rita (Saoirse...

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Anora
Anora Review

Sean Baker sees the world differently. He found a magic kingdom in the pastel...

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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Review

In our era of cinematic universes, it feels like every actor has donned a cape...

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Juror #2
Juror #2 Review

Whether playing an outlaw (the Man With No Name of Sergio Leone’s ‘Dollars...

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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Review

The thing about making a new Wallace & Gromit film is that it’s going to...

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Don’t Move (2024)
Don’t Move (2024) Review

Back in 2016, Sam Raimi lent his name as producer to high-concept...

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The Crime Is Mine
The Crime Is Mine Review

For a film that is not much more than pure, delightful homage to 1930s cinema...

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The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin
The Remarkable Life Of Ibelin Review

Norwegian teenager Mats Steen died in November 2014 at the age of 25. Born with...

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Music By John Williams
Music By John Williams Review

It begins with Jaws. Of course it begins with Jaws. Has any composer in history...

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The Front Room
The Front Room Review

Kathryn Hunter elevates everything she’s in, which goes double for a film as...

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Venom: The Last Dance
Venom: The Last Dance Review

The commercial success of the Venom franchise — the first two films made over...

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Smile 2
Smile 2 Review

If 2022’s Smile slapped a grin on anybody’s face, it was that of first-time...

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The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot Review

In this exceedingly charming animation by Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, How...

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The Apprentice
The Apprentice Review

What more is there to know about Donald Trump, one of the most publicised men...

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Hundreds Of Beavers
Hundreds Of Beavers Review

If you predicted that one of the most entertaining films of the summer would be...

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Salem’s Lot
Salem’s Lot (2024) Review

At long (long, long, long, long, long) last, Gary Dauberman’s adaptation of...

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