top of page
FILM REVIEWS

Oct 5, 2023
THE CREATOR
For a movie too heavy on religious metaphors and less smart than it continually thinks it is, The Creator still holds your attention for...
0 comments

Sep 29, 2023
COUP DE CHANCE
If Coup de Chance does indeed turn out to be Woody Allen’s final movie – as is mooted – then the quality of his first French-language...
0 comments

Sep 28, 2023
THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR
Wes Anderson doubles down on every single one of his indulgent quirks in this Netflix short film adaptation of a Roald Dahl tale, yet...
0 comments

Sep 23, 2023
NO HARD FEELINGS
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...
0 comments

Sep 14, 2023
A HAUNTING IN VENICE
Hercule Poirot goes oddly gothic in A Haunting in Venice which not only has a lackluster denouement but also never quite knows if it...
0 comments

Sep 12, 2023
ANATOMY OF A FALL (ANATOMIE D'UNE CHUTE)
This year’s Palme d’Or winner is carried by an excellent Sandra Hüller performance but the credibility the film oozes in the domestic...
0 comments

Sep 8, 2023
THE LITTLE MERMAID
The Little Mermaid is yet another overlong, superfluous live-action re-imagining that might add a splash of diversity but skimps on the...
0 comments

Sep 4, 2023
TALK TO ME
Despite a reliance on metaphors that are neither groundbreaking nor original Aussie horror flick Talk to Me is engaging, intriguing and,...
0 comments

Aug 31, 2023
PETER PAN & WENDY
This charming J.M. Barrie adaptation is a cut above most of Disney’s live-action remakes thanks to impeccable casting, old-school...
0 comments

Aug 28, 2023
THE MEMORY GAME (HET GEHEUGENSPEL)
As a drinking game about tired old thriller clichés The Memory Game has some mileage in it, but otherwise there’s preciously little to...
0 comments

Aug 23, 2023
BLUE BEETLE
Strip away the latino representation and DC movie Blue Beetle is hardly different from any other superhero flick of the last ten years,...
0 comments

Aug 22, 2023
STRANGE WAY OF LIFE
Even at 30 minutes long the Pedro Almodóvar western Strange Way of Life soon outstays its welcome due to an undercooked narrative, bland...
0 comments

Aug 20, 2023
THE MONKEY KING
The spryly animated and stupendously entertaining The Monkey King deftly mixes classic Chinese folklore with modern storytelling and...
0 comments

Aug 16, 2023
MEG 2: THE TRENCH
You have bad movies. You have inept movies. And then there is this god-awful sequel, which doesn't try to tell a coherent story or make...
0 comments

Aug 12, 2023
GRAN TURISMO
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...
0 comments

Aug 9, 2023
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM
The animation is suitably idiosyncratic, the characters are well-defined and the youthful humour and energy are laudably fun yet almost...
0 comments

Jul 30, 2023
THEY CLONED TYRONE
The numerous Nancy Drew references are an all too telling omen in Netflix failure They Cloned Tyrone, an odd match between a naïve kid’s...
0 comments
bottom of page