Reviews

The Innocents
The Innocents (2022) Review

Filmmakers have long realised that young children can provide an excellent...

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Emergency
Emergency Review

Carey Williams’ sophomore feature Emergency could quite easily be read as a...

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A-ha: The Movie
A-ha: The Movie Review

A profile of Norwegian synth-pop band a-ha is perhaps not, on paper, the...

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Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers
Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers Review

With the blizzard of ’80s and ’90s reboots happening right now, it was...

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Benediction
Benediction Review

Droll banter is not a pleasure one might traditionally expect from the...

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Firestarter
Firestarter Review

Technology has advanced a lot in the almost 40 years since they last made a...

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Vortex
Vortex Review

Viewers familiar with the work of director Gaspar Noé, established enfant...

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Father Stu
Father Stu Review

Father Stuart Long was a real-life boxer who became a Catholic priest after a...

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Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick Review

In 1986, Tony Scott’s Top Gun made superstars of Tom Cruise, F-14 Tomcats and...

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The Quiet Girl
The Quiet Girl Review

The Quiet Girl is, not unexpectedly, a quiet film. With dialogue almost...

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This Much I Know To Be True
This Much I Know To Be True Review

The last time filmmaker Andrew Dominik (The Assassination Of Jesse James By...

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Men
Men Review

With Alex Garland movies, generally, you should expect the unexpected. A body,...

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Everything Everywhere All At Once
Everything Everywhere All At Once Review

At the exact moment Everything Everywhere All At Once is about to kick into...

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The Contractor
The Contractor Review

The Contractor was originally called Violence Of Action, which at least gave...

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Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Review

Has the time come for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to start adding a...

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Casablanca Beats
Casablanca Beats Review

For filmgoers, the thought of music in Morocco’s capital brings to mind...

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Downton Abbey: A New Era
Downton Abbey: A New Era Review

No matter how much you might detest its cricket bat subtlety, rampant classism...

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Happening
Happening Review

A promising young woman’s life is thrown into disarray in 1960s France — a...

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Playground
Playground Review

It begins with a sobbing seven-year-old girl hugging her older brother and...

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The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent Review

“I’m an actor,” declares Nick Cage, in the role of his lifetime, playing Nick...

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Navalny
Navalny Review

This fairly extraordinary non-fiction film was completed months before the...

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Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat Review

Operation Mincemeat is a gift to storytellers. It’s a minor but significant...

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The Lost City
The Lost City Review

Death cannot stop true love; it can only delay it for a while. Or so The...

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Murina
Murina Review

As she did in Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's 2017 short, Into The Blue, Gracija...

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Benedetta
Benedetta Review

“Showgirls, but in a convent.” That’s how Benedetta has been sold, which...

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The Northman
The Northman Review

No filmmaker in the last 20 years has done folklore quite like Robert Eggers....

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Compartment No. 6
Compartment No. 6 Review

A love story between strangers on a European train: you can hear the...

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All The Old Knives
All The Old Knives Review

On the surface, All The Old Knives bears plenty in common with other entries...

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The Outfit
The Outfit Review

Calling a film “stagey” is usually a bit of a high-minded insult, suggesting...

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