Reviews

She Said
She Said Review

Journalists are rarely interesting enough to be the centre of a film. There’s...

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Matilda
Matilda The Musical Review

Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel Matilda was a late-career highlight, an empowering...

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Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special Review

If The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special is the final shot of...

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Review

Early on in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, in a church, the little wooden...

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Bones And All
Bones And All Review

Bones And All seems, at first glance, to be another entry in the ‘Sexy...

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Glass Onion
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review

Whether you’re a detective or a director, taking on a new case is always...

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Disenchanted
Disenchanted Review

Released in 2007, Enchanted found the Walt Disney studio in an unusually...

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Score, The
The Score Review

So, we have a craggy safe-cracker, world-weary and set on retirement, in that...

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Armageddon Time
Armageddon Time Review

“You just want me to be like you,” says 12-year-old Paul Graff (Banks...

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Confess, Fletch
Confess, Fletch Review

After more false starts than we can possibly recount within an agreed-upon...

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Bardo
Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths Review

Now more than ever, filmmakers are making films about filmmaking: Steven...

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Aftersun
Aftersun Review

Rare and special is a film capable of summoning this much poignancy: a feeling...

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Spirited
Spirited Review

From The Muppets to Edmund Blackadder, comedy greats have been wringing laughs...

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The Menu
The Menu Review

Mark Mylod’s The Menu begins as a dressing-down of opulence before...

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The Swimmers
The Swimmers Review

The Mardini sisters have a real-life story so rare, it’s...

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My Father's Dragon
My Father’s Dragon Review

Has Cartoon Saloon ‘gone Hollywood?’ My Father’s Dragon, based on the...

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Review

For all of its blockbuster bombast and globe-trotting conflict, Black...

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Neptune Frost
Neptune Frost Review

When American musician Saul Williams and actor-writer Anisia Uzeyman came up...

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Hellraiser
Hellraiser (2022) Review

A current fashion in film is to take franchises which have been churning out...

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Enola Holmes 2
Enola Holmes 2 Review

With the massive success of Netflix’s Enola Holmes, it was no surprise that a...

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Living
Living Review

Back in 1952, legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa found himself in an unusually...

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The Wonder
The Wonder Review

Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio prides himself on telling the formidable...

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Call Jane
Call Jane Review

Call Jane opens with bored, glammed-up suburban housewife Joy (Elizabeth...

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Something In The Dirt
Something In The Dirt Review

If you were at all worried that working for Marvel might have dragged low-fi...

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Review

“Weird Al” Yankovic has been around for so long (his career began in 1976,...

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Causeway
Causeway Review

2010’s Winter’s Bone — a bleak, uncompromising portrait of poverty and...

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Barbarian
Barbarian Review

Barbarian is best experienced with little foreknowledge. Writer-director Zach...

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Wendell & Wild
Wendell & Wild Review

The fifth film from animation legend Henry Selick, Wendell & Wild is a dark...

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The Good Nurse
The Good Nurse Review

True crime has traditionally lent a veneer of respectability to some pretty...

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