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FILM REVIEWS
Dec 10, 2023
WONKA
A confection as saccharine sweet and indulgent as new musical prequel Wonka won’t be to everyone’s taste but I found it to be an ideal...
Dec 9, 2023
THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE (DAS LEHRERZIMMER)
Interesting characters, intriguing ambiguous drama and fine acting draw you into The Teachers’ Lounge until the third act takes a...
Dec 7, 2023
DUMB MONEY
I wouldn’t call it a dumb film but Dumb Money certainly struggles to find the right balance between themes and characters, while a...
Dec 3, 2023
BLACKBERRY
After initially struggling with a coherent tone of voice Blackberry finds its footing about 30 minutes in, even if the movie never quite...
Nov 29, 2023
LEO
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...
Nov 25, 2023
NAPOLEON
Ridley Scott stages exciting epic battles in Napoleon but he fails to build a compelling movie around them, mostly because he sees the...
Nov 19, 2023
L'ULTIMA NOTTE DI AMORE
As a classic tale of crime and punishment this Italian cop thriller keeps you entertained with polished direction and a pulsating synth...
Nov 18, 2023
RUSTIN
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...
Nov 10, 2023
THE MARVELS
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...
Nov 8, 2023
NYAD
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...
Nov 6, 2023
QUIZ LADY
There are many moments in Quiz Lady that are way too manic and broadly comedic for my taste, but the movie builds towards a poignant...
Nov 5, 2023
THE OLD OAK
In The Old Oak director Ken Loach brings his career to a close as you’d expect him to: with a story that highlights social injustice with...
Nov 4, 2023
WHEN IT MELTS (HET SMELT)
Building up excruciatingly long to a pivotal scene you see coming a mile off, Flemish literary adaptation When It Melts is as predictable...
Nov 2, 2023
BEAU IS AFRAID
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...
Nov 1, 2023
INFINITY POOL
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...
Oct 30, 2023
THE BOY AND THE HERON
The Boy and the Heron is an enigmatic swan song for Hayao Miyazaki: despite the dynamic animation and vibrant character designs the movie...
Oct 27, 2023
THE KILLER
The Killer is as stylish a movie as you'd expect from David Fincher, and probably his most breezily entertaining effort since Panic Room,...
Oct 23, 2023
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
A fascinating story of greed, violence and racism gets the epic treatment in Scorsese's latest but despite some striking images the film...
Oct 15, 2023
THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER
Having ruined the Halloween franchise David Gordon Green does the same for another classic horror series in The Exorcist: Believer, a...
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