FILM REVIEWS

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...

Despite being a major improvement over other recent ‘legacy’ horror prequels The First Omen is predictable, tepid and relies on a lame...

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...

The magical, transformative qualities of cinema, that La Contadora de Peliculas tries to propagate, are nowhere to be found in this...

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...

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...

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes doesn’t add anything new, urgent or compelling to the franchise, with characters that lack nuance,...

Intended as a celebration of 100 years of Disney magic Wish instead plays out as a soulless, uninspired rethread with not a memorable...

The Fall Guy gives stunt people their due credit, but with a needlessly convoluted script and a surprising lack of chemistry between...

Wicked Little Letters dallies where it should pick up pace, skirts big themes where it should be addressing them head-on and contents...

If John Wick were Indian he might look a lot like the lead character in Monkey Man but Dev Patel’s acting skills prove to be a much...

By far the silliest entry in Warner's Monsterverse saga so far, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire eschews the human touch altogether and...

As a raw, unflinching portrait of a teenager fighting off parental abuse and trauma in an institution Skunk would have resonated a lot...

When the film leans into its Stephen King inspired paranormal subtext Holly shines brightest. Alas director Fien Troch is more interested...

For a film that was marketed as an ode to life J’aime la Vie is a surprisingly drab and joyless affair: the movie hopes to coast by on...

Is the camp there to mask the seriousness of the subject in May December, or does director Todd Haynes use it to hide in plain sight that...

If most of what you see in Next Goal Wins hadn’t actually happened you would not have believed it, and even if you would, Taika Waititi’s...

Despite an excellent lead performance by actress Daphne Agten, Flemish film Holy Rosita lacks the thematic heft and coherence to make it...

None of Jamaica’s most famous musician’s charisma is present in this Bob Marley biopic, not in star Kingsley Ben-Adir’s one-note...

Michael Mann’s long in the works passion project Ferrari ultimately amounts to a rote biopic, devoid of a compelling atmosphere, that...