Reviews

The Beanie Bubble
The Beanie Bubble Review

The trend for cinematic capitalist navel-gazing continues apace, with this...

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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock Review

It’s only fitting that Mark Cousins should tackle Alfred Hitchcock for his...

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Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer Review

Oppenheimer is not an easy movie. To say its subject matter and theme are...

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Barbie
Barbie Review

The soundscape that sweeps through the opening moments of Barbie –wind and...

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Name Me Lawand
Name Me Lawand Review

In order to make this documentary about a boy learning to communicate for the...

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They Cloned Tyrone
They Cloned Tyrone Review

It’s not often that a film can be accurately described as a sci-fi, mystery,...

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While We Watched
While We Watched Review

Newsreader Ravish Kumar is an anomaly in India’s TV landscape. Where all the...

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Bird Box Barcelona
Bird Box Barcelona Review

Arriving at the tail end of 2018, Suzanne Bier’s Bird Box was a harrowingly...

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Insidious: The Red Door
Insidious: The Red Door Review

After two prequels, the Insidious series returns to the family where it...

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Smoking Causes Coughing
Smoking Causes Coughing Review

Shaggy-dog stories don’t come shaggier than this enjoyable load of old...

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Review

Okay, let’s just come out with it. It’s now clear: Tom Cruise and...

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La Syndicaliste
La Syndicaliste Review

Isabelle Huppert has been making films for over half a century and audiences...

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Elemental
Elemental Review

Pixar is a studio with proven form in telling heartfelt, impactful stories...

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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Review

Remember in The Princess Diaries when an ordinary teen discovers that her...

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Stars At Noon
Stars At Noon Review

Whether it’s the seductive Béatrice Dalle biting her lover to death (Trouble...

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Nimona
Nimona Review

Nimona is many things. She’s a rebel. She’s a punk. She’s an instigator,...

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No Hard Feelings
No Hard Feelings Review

Yes, the plot of No Hard Feelings sounds inherently silly — girl is broke,...

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Stan Lee
Stan Lee Review

Stan Lee died an icon in 2018, beloved by fans around the world for his work on...

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Greatest Days
Greatest Days Review

The music of Take That is the soundtrack to this simple story of friendship...

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Extraction 2
Extraction 2 Review

When Extraction hit streaming in April 2020, it came as a welcome action...

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Inland
Inland Review

The problem with Inland is that it can’t quite decide what it wants...

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Pretty Red Dress
Pretty Red Dress Review

For a film that combines family dynamics and gender identity with the musical...

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Flamin' Hot
Flamin’ Hot Review

Hollywood’s bizarre current obsession with corporate origin stories continues...

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Brooklyn 45
Brooklyn 45 Review

Not a prequel to Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Brooklyn 45 is a finely...

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War Pony
War Pony Review

Daisy Jones And The Six and Zola star Riley Keough steps behind the camera...

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Medusa Deluxe
Medusa Deluxe Review

Hair, it is said in Medusa Deluxe, is the “crown that you never take off”....

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Chevalier
Chevalier Review

“You are a tourist in their world,” Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr,...

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The Covenant
The Covenant Review

When the US army withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, it abandoned hundreds of...

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The Flash
The Flash Review

It’s taken – in a supreme act of Alanis-ing – so long for The Flash to...

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