FILM REVIEWS

If on-screen chemistry could be bottled, you’d happily drink what David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah bring to Rye Lane on a daily basis: the...

A fascinating Greek tragedy that is elevated by excellent performances, The Iron Claw keeps you gripped for over two hours in a...

Seventy years after the first film Godzilla Minus One becomes the best movie in the franchise: a thrillride that sees the impressive...

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

So old-fashioned that the uplifting message no longer gets across, The Boys in the Boat is comfort viewing for a lazy Sunday afternoon...

Coasting by on the palpable chemistry between leads Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, Anyone But You isn’t quite a true romcom renaissance,...

Don’t expect a radical retelling of the Dracula myth in The Last Voyage of the Demeter but an old-school horror tale that would have...

For cinephiles in general, and Bong Joon-Ho fans in particular, Yellow Door is a nostalgic treat, but an overall lack of explanatory...

Unlike most other films that dream up an out-there premise, Dream Scenario cleverly follows through on its timely themes and brooding...

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...

Do not go hungry into French film The Taste of Things or you risk salivating two hours on end, not so much for the trifle of a story or...

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...

The raw emotion and astute observations in rite of passage film How to Have Sex owe a lot to the excellent lead performance of Mia...

Is American Fiction enough of a satire to make a valid, stingy critique on the African-American perception or is the film mere...

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...

If you want to spend ninety fun and entertaining minutes in a joyfully animated, colourful world Migration is just the ticket for you,...

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

There is a subtle, humane beauty at the core of intimate ghost story All of us Strangers and while I’m sure plenty will be moved to tears...

Despite (very) fleeting moments of silly popcorn entertainment Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is mostly a muddled CGI mess, that fails at...