OPPENHEIMER
Despite all the ambition and formidable filmmaking on display in Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan never gets a complete grip on...
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FILM REVIEWS
Jul 23, 2023
BARBIE
Perhaps as a simple pink fantasy Barbie would have worked, but the meta message movie director Greta Gerwig has concocted buckles under...
Jul 15, 2023
BORN TO FLY
As far as exciting arial battles go Born to Fly doesn’t hold a candle to Top Gun, but the movie makes up for that with a familiar yet...
Jul 9, 2023
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING, PART ONE
As usual the stakes are high in Mission: Impossible 7 but the plot, the characters and the excitement verge too much to the bland and...
Jul 7, 2023
NIMONA
The vivid characters in the sprightly animated Nimona go a long way in making you care for what happens on-screen but alas it’s the...
Jun 30, 2023
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
The fifth Indy film gives Harrison Ford’s iconic archeologist a decent send-off, with a fun dose of old-school adventure, even if it...
Jun 26, 2023
ELEMENTAL
Call me a sentimental fool, but I fell head over heels in love with Pixar’s charming Elemental, which for the little new ground it treads...
Jun 19, 2023
THE FLASH
Despite a winning Ezra Miller performance and the nostalgic return of Michael Keaton’s Batman The Flash gradually morphs from a...
Jun 17, 2023
ASTEROID CITY
Wes Anderson takes his idiosyncrasies more than one step too far in Asteroid City, to the point of self-parody you might say, beit one...
Jun 12, 2023
TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts stakes an easy claim as the second best entry in the long-running franchise but that is faint praise as...
Jun 5, 2023
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
This sequel to the Oscar-winning Into the Spider-Verse is both too much of a good thing and not enough of a great idea. The visuals...
Jun 4, 2023
THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry might be likeable but it isn’t good: from the phoned-in morals to the by-the-dozen characters, the...
May 21, 2023
TETRIS
It’s hard to believe that everything that happens in Tetris more or less occurred, which hinders the film to some extent but doesn’t make...
May 20, 2023
JEANNE DU BARRY
This year's Cannes Film Festival opener neither talks the talk nor walks the walk in a period drama so dull and predictable even the...
May 18, 2023
COCAINE BEAR
A fun premise delivers some diverting, over-the-top scenes in Cocaine Bear before the picture has to find a coherent ending and utterly...
May 18, 2023
FAST X
Even for those who have so far tolerated the franchise’s ever dumber plots and increasingly nonsensical set-pieces the downright stupid...
May 16, 2023
STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE
Still: a Michael J. Fox Movie doesn’t just coast by on the winning personality of its subject: the documentary finds an excellent balance...
May 7, 2023
THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE
The Super Mario Bros. Movie hews so close to the tropes of the popular video game that you feel as though you’re watching a nostalgic...
May 6, 2023
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY vol. 3
Overlong, underdeveloped and devoid of any new ideas Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 runs out of creative steam long before you’re put to...
May 4, 2023
EVIL DEAD RISE
Don't be fooled by the title: despite an abundance of well-executed horror tropes this sequel never feels like it truly belongs in the...
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