Reviews

Call Jane
Call Jane Review

Call Jane opens with bored, glammed-up suburban housewife Joy (Elizabeth...

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Something In The Dirt
Something In The Dirt Review

If you were at all worried that working for Marvel might have dragged low-fi...

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Review

“Weird Al” Yankovic has been around for so long (his career began in 1976,...

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Causeway
Causeway Review

2010’s Winter’s Bone — a bleak, uncompromising portrait of poverty and...

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Barbarian
Barbarian Review

Barbarian is best experienced with little foreknowledge. Writer-director Zach...

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Wendell & Wild
Wendell & Wild Review

The fifth film from animation legend Henry Selick, Wendell & Wild is a dark...

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The Good Nurse
The Good Nurse Review

True crime has traditionally lent a veneer of respectability to some pretty...

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Triangle Of Sadness
Triangle Of Sadness Review

Ruben Östlund loves to take the piss. The Swedish director has made a habit of...

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Bros
Bros Review

The mere existence of Bros shouldn’t be remarkable, but it is. If you can...

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Dracula (1958)
Dracula Review

It's increasingly difficult now to convey the excitement of a film being shown...

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Dracula (1958)
Dracula Review

From the second the lurid red letters of the opening credits hit the screen,...

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Decision To Leave
Decision To Leave Review

It’s near impossible to watch Decision To Leave without memories of Basic...

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Black Adam
Black Adam Review

The DC Film universe has, for nearly a decade now, been pinballing between the...

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The School For Good And Evil
The School For Good And Evil Review

Young-Adult franchises are a golden goose. If you’re a film studio or...

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My Policeman
My Policeman Review

Under any other circumstances, My Policeman might not have attracted much...

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All Is Vanity
All Is Vanity Review

The modelling industry is tantalising in its prospects for visual glamour. As...

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All That Breathes
All That Breathes Review

In Delhi, birds are falling out of the sky. An apocalyptic image, certainly,...

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Halloween Ends
Halloween Ends Review

When you’re hewing to the trajectory of the original Halloween movies — as...

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All Quiet On The Western Front
All Quiet On The Western Front Review

This is the third cinematic adaptation of the famous novel by Erich Maria...

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Emily
Emily Review

Of the Brontë sisters, those three great 19th-century Yorkshire novelists,...

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The Woman King
The Woman King Review

“All I ever knew of Africans was slaves,” says Malik (Jordan Bolger) in one...

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Werewolf By Night
Werewolf By Night Review

Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that composer Michael Giacchino has turned...

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Smile
Smile (2022) Review

There is something fundamentally unsettling about being on the receiving end of...

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Amsterdam
Amsterdam Review

At one point in Amsterdam, there is a scene involving (deep breath) Christian...

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The Lost King
The Lost King Review

2013’s Philomena was a moving and gently funny account of one woman’s...

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Hocus Pocus 2
Hocus Pocus 2 Review

Blame the mushrooming dominance of the Halloween concept and a strange dearth...

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Girls Girls Girls
Girls Girls Girls Review

It is both a blessing and a curse that there are now tons of stories about...

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Flux Gourmet
Flux Gourmet Review

In some ways, Flux Gourmet is filmmaker Peter Strickland’s most accessible...

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever
The Greatest Beer Run Ever Review

“Dumbest thing I ever heard,” is how one character describes the big plan...

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