FILM REVIEWS

Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature film in English is a stilted morality play wherein the director’s trademark colourful visual storytelling...

Andrea Arnold’s latest film tries to find a balance between social realism, visual poetry and escapist fantasy, but despite an excellent...

The physical transformation as an extension of inner turmoil remains a powerful trope, but not as used in the lazy female empowerment...

If you like your messages blunt, your plot predictable and your emotions rather underwhelmed, Young Hearts is the movie for you. For a...

The constant dread and unease in thriller remake Speak No Evil do not keep you on the edge, as most of the thrills are predictable and...

Led by a quiet Cillian Murphy performance Small Things Like These doesn’t simply go small, the picture goes minimalist to the extreme in...

I Saw the TV Glow wears its indie credentials like a proud badge, but with an opaque plot, muddled themes and emotionless performances,...

While there is the odd visual gross-out and a myriad of WTF scenes in The Substance the film contains no actual substance: the longer in,...

While Venom: The Last Dance isn’t quite as loud and obnoxious as the previous two entries, the buddy movie dynamic fails to yield...

François Ozon titillates suspense and lurking secrets, waiting to be uncovered in Quand Vient l’Automne, yet time and again he withholds...

As much an excruciatingly slow burn as it is a film that flings stuff at the wall to see what sticks, Joker: Folie à Deux is a messy,...

A would-be epic that fails to sell its ambition and is narratively held back by the promise of three sequels, Horizon: an American Saga...

As far as movie anthologies go, Kinds of Kindness falls squarely in the weird category, and while there are a few intriguing ideas, they...

Zoë Kravitz proves herself as a talented director in Blink Twice, which makes it even sadder that her debut film is a blunt, uninspired...

Alien: Romulus effortlessly captures the aesthetics of the franchise but director Fede Alvarez riffs too much on fan favourite tropes,...

A cutesy idea is hamstrung by thematic incoherence and narrative slog in IF, which emphasizes the redemptive power of childhood friends...

While there are a couple of decent concepts in Trap, with definite potential for nail-biting suspense, M. Night Shyamalan half-asses them...

Many of the sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek jokes in Deadpool & Wolverine land, yet as a piece of popcorn fun the irreverent Marvel mashup...

While far from the worst movie of the year, Madame Web is definitely one of the most pointless ones, or how else would you describe a...

Juggling an enormous amount of disparate plot strands and characters old and new, Despicable Me 4 feels more like an unwieldy, laborious...