VENOM: THE LAST DANCE
While Venom: The Last Dance isn’t quite as loud and obnoxious as the previous two entries, the buddy movie dynamic fails to yield...
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FILM REVIEWS
Oct 15
QUAND VIENT L'AUTOMNE (WHEN FALL IS COMING)
François Ozon titillates suspense and lurking secrets, waiting to be uncovered in Quand Vient l’Automne, yet time and again he withholds...
Oct 2
JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX
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,...
Sep 17
HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA - chapter 1
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...
Sep 5
KINDS OF KINDNESS
As far as movie anthologies go, Kinds of Kindness falls squarely in the weird category, and while there are a few intriguing ideas, they...
Aug 25
BLINK TWICE
Zoë Kravitz proves herself as a talented director in Blink Twice, which makes it even sadder that her debut film is a blunt, uninspired...
Aug 16
ALIEN: ROMULUS
Alien: Romulus effortlessly captures the aesthetics of the franchise but director Fede Alvarez riffs too much on fan favourite tropes,...
Aug 12
IF
A cutesy idea is hamstrung by thematic incoherence and narrative slog in IF, which emphasizes the redemptive power of childhood friends...
Aug 4
TRAP
While there are a couple of decent concepts in Trap, with definite potential for nail-biting suspense, M. Night Shyamalan half-asses them...
Jul 27
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
Many of the sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek jokes in Deadpool & Wolverine land, yet as a piece of popcorn fun the irreverent Marvel mashup...
Jul 15
MADAME WEB
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...
Jul 14
DESPICABLE ME 4
Juggling an enormous amount of disparate plot strands and characters old and new, Despicable Me 4 feels more like an unwieldy, laborious...
Jul 3
BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F.
Had the picture been made in the eighties Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. might have passed as serviceable entertainment, but now it’s just a...
Jun 16
THE FIRST OMEN
Despite being a major improvement over other recent ‘legacy’ horror prequels The First Omen is predictable, tepid and relies on a lame...
Jun 14
BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE
If you’re not a fan of the ever more preposterous and over the top action franchise Bad Boys: Ride or Die won’t win you over, unless you...
Jun 8
LA CONTADORA DE PELICULAS
The magical, transformative qualities of cinema, that La Contadora de Peliculas tries to propagate, are nowhere to be found in this...
May 26
HIT MAN
A killer idea gets a humdrum execution in Hit Man, a movie that to no avail hopes that star Glen Powell’s charisma makes you look past...
May 20
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S
For about an hour Five Nights at Freddy’s is a diverting, familiar spin on the haunted house movie, before a handful of overwrought plot...
May 13
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes doesn’t add anything new, urgent or compelling to the franchise, with characters that lack nuance,...
May 4
WISH
Intended as a celebration of 100 years of Disney magic Wish instead plays out as a soulless, uninspired rethread with not a memorable...
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