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FILM REVIEWS


Jan 10
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature film in English is a stilted morality play wherein the director’s trademark colourful visual storytelling...
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Dec 18, 2024
YOUNG HEARTS
If you like your messages blunt, your plot predictable and your emotions rather underwhelmed, Young Hearts is the movie for you. For a...
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Dec 8, 2024
SPEAK NO EVIL
The constant dread and unease in thriller remake Speak No Evil do not keep you on the edge, as most of the thrills are predictable and...
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Nov 24, 2024
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
Led by a quiet Cillian Murphy performance Small Things Like These doesn’t simply go small, the picture goes minimalist to the extreme in...
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Nov 11, 2024
I SAW THE TV GLOW
I Saw the TV Glow wears its indie credentials like a proud badge, but with an opaque plot, muddled themes and emotionless performances,...
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Nov 6, 2024
THE SUBSTANCE
While there is the odd visual gross-out and a myriad of WTF scenes in The Substance the film contains no actual substance: the longer in,...
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Oct 26, 2024
VENOM: THE LAST DANCE
While Venom: The Last Dance isn’t quite as loud and obnoxious as the previous two entries, the buddy movie dynamic fails to yield...
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Oct 15, 2024
QUAND VIENT L'AUTOMNE (WHEN FALL IS COMING)
François Ozon titillates suspense and lurking secrets, waiting to be uncovered in Quand Vient l’Automne, yet time and again he withholds...
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Oct 2, 2024
JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX
As much an excruciatingly slow burn as it is a film that flings stuff at the wall to see what sticks, Joker: Folie à Deux is a messy,...
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Sep 17, 2024
HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA - chapter 1
A would-be epic that fails to sell its ambition and is narratively held back by the promise of three sequels, Horizon: an American Saga...
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Sep 5, 2024
KINDS OF KINDNESS
As far as movie anthologies go, Kinds of Kindness falls squarely in the weird category, and while there are a few intriguing ideas, they...
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Aug 25, 2024
BLINK TWICE
Zoë Kravitz proves herself as a talented director in Blink Twice, which makes it even sadder that her debut film is a blunt, uninspired...
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Aug 16, 2024
ALIEN: ROMULUS
Alien: Romulus effortlessly captures the aesthetics of the franchise but director Fede Alvarez riffs too much on fan favourite tropes,...
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Jul 27, 2024
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
Many of the sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek jokes in Deadpool & Wolverine land, yet as a piece of popcorn fun the irreverent Marvel mashup...
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