FILM REVIEWS

Empire of Light doesn’t know what kind of movie it wants to be and on the few instances it does start to get interesting, a cliché script...

Look past the Brendan Fraser lovefest and you’ll find that not a lot of elements in The Whale, another tonally misjudged misfire for...

Florian Zeller should never be allowed to get away with the cynical audience manipulation he attempts in the film's irredeemable final...

Director Kormákur tries to spice up the proceedings by utilising relatively long takes but they cannot make up for a bland, tension-free...

Casting Tom Hanks against type is by far the best decision the picture makes but it doesn't remove the distinct, sickly sweet vanilla...

Forget about that Best Picture nomination: one can only call Women Talking an annoyingly self-important snoozefest. Women Talking is one...

Despite the introduction of new big baddie Kang the Conqueror much of the events in the film have frustratingly little impact on the...

Knock at the Cabin’s worst mistake is that the story is all text and no subtext, with a narrative that goes exactly where you expect it...

If only the scenes that successfully explore family relations would have been expanded upon, the bland and disappointing Alcarràs might...

The nearer Babylon approaches the three-hour mark, the more the realisation hits that you could cut just about any scene from the picture...

Operation Fortune lends itself for a fun heist, but in Ritchie’s hands the twists and turns are sorely lacking and the characters are...

A major problem of this movie is a cliché backstory that adds overlong convoluted melodrama to a film that should have been at least half...

The picture’s far from hidden agenda continually squeezes the life out of the narrative while Eichner makes for a too egocentric,...

The Pale Blue Eye never comes within touching distance of the tales Edgar Allan Poe built his reputation upon, as the mystery gets more...

Call Jane suffers from an underdeveloped script which grinds its gears far too often, and from botched editing, most notably in the final...

What’s supposed to be a darkly comedic look at mid-eighties America in Baumbach’s hands becomes a woefully unfunny, numbingly talkative,...

Barbarian offers nothing but tired clichés and unimaginative scares, while frustratingly doing next to nothing with the backstories and...

A major flaw of this thriller is its tempo, while the acting skews towards stereotypes and the visual aesthetic of the film appears to be...

The second Avatar film will probably have an even lesser cultural footprint than the first, as James Cameron pummels you with bad...

Bardo indulges too much in its own surreal idiosyncrasies and has hardly any interest in satisfying anyone else but the director and his...