FILM REVIEWS

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

An excruciatingly tedious biopic, completely devoid of drama, that reveals next to nothing about its subject, Priscilla could have done...

A fascinating, controversial figure gets the bland, safe biopic treatment in Golda, which gives as little insight in former Israëli PM...

Emerald Fennell doubles down on the many flaws of her first feature in Saltburn, a maddeningly incoherent, needlessly shocking, toothless...

One or two fun characters and scenes do not disguise that Leo is visually drab, that a majority of the jokes don’t land and that the...

Coming on the heels of a glut of Civil Rights movies in the past decade Rustin doesn’t tell a tale you don’t already know, nor does it do...

I was less annoyed and more entertained by The Marvels than by other recent Marvel movies but that doesn’t make the film any less of a...

Based on a true story about human endurance, Nyad requires quite a bit of endurance to sit through itself: the picture is bland, has zero...

Ari Aster seems to be mostly exorcising his own demons in Beau is Afraid, a movie whose opening hour is not without merits but then...

Brandon Cronenberg’s laboured satire of a bored wealthy class, isn’t half as clever as it wants to be nor nearly as horrifying or...

Having ruined the Halloween franchise David Gordon Green does the same for another classic horror series in The Exorcist: Believer, a...

Jennifer Lawrence's raunchy comedy has to work so hard to make jokes land that the movie never finds a pleasant, easy-going rhythm and...

Hercule Poirot goes oddly gothic in A Haunting in Venice which not only has a lackluster denouement but also never quite knows if it...

The Little Mermaid is yet another overlong, superfluous live-action re-imagining that might add a splash of diversity but skimps on the...

Vapid melodrama and bland sexual digressions cripple the roundly disappointing Passages but the final nail in the film’s coffin is an...

As a drinking game about tired old thriller clichés The Memory Game has some mileage in it, but otherwise there’s preciously little to...

Strip away the latino representation and DC movie Blue Beetle is hardly different from any other superhero flick of the last ten years,...

Even at 30 minutes long the Pedro Almodóvar western Strange Way of Life soon outstays its welcome due to an undercooked narrative, bland...

Zhang Yimou doesn’t only strip away most of the colours in historical drama Shadow but the excitement, tension and character development...

There is a beautiful story at the core of Gran Turismo but the movie mostly swaps out emotion for car crashes and corporate game-selling...