Film Review: Barbie
★★★★☆ Among the most popular and iconic toys in the world, since its 1959 inception the Barbie doll has delighted children while embodying unrealistic beauty standards for ...
Category Archives: Reviews
Film Review: Move Me No Mountain
★★☆☆☆ Bereavement, mental health, the threadbare US social welfare system and homelessness are the heavy topics that British-born director Deborah Richards tackles in her ...
Film Review: Master Gardener
★★★☆☆ A man sits alone in a room with a notepad and begins to scribble down his own voiceover. He only writes on one page and seems to always be starting at the top. His ...
Film Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
★★★★☆ Sixteen months after the events of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and returned to their respective realities, our arachnoid avengers are still juggling ...
Film Review: Medusa Deluxe
★★★★☆ In the run-up to a regional hairdressing competition, the leading entrant is found mutilated. British director Thomas Hardiman’s debut film is a gripping, dizzyingly ...
Film Review: The Flash
★★☆☆☆ All good things, they say, must end. Unfortunately for the DC Extended Universe, so too must the messy, mediocre and baffling. A basically entertaining, but flimsy and ...
Film Review: The Wicker Man
★★★★★ Once again, it’s time for cinema audiences to keep their appointment with The Wicker Man following a recent 4K restoration. It’s an offbeat masterpiece that reveals the ...
Film Review: Asteroid City
★★★☆☆ Wes Anderson has made his film again. One of the most unmistakable filmmakers currently working, he is the go-to stylist for A.I.-generated parodies. His distinctive ...
Film Review: 8 A.M. Metro
★★☆☆☆ Following up his 2019 directorial debut Mallesham, Hyderabad-based director Raj Rachakonda returns to screens with a romantic drama that draws heavy inspiration from ...
Film Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
★★★☆☆ It’s 1969 and time has finally caught up with Indiana Jones. When he’s not napping in a bourbon-induced fug, he’s boring his students to sleep, counting down the hours ...
Film Review: The Damned Don’t Cry
★★★★☆ The British-Moroccan director of Lynn + Lucy, Fyzal Boulifa, returns to screens with this deeply moving tale of a mother and son living on the margins of society. ...
Film Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
★★★★☆ Deep under the ice of the Bering Strait, a tactical exercise on a Russian submarine goes badly wrong. As the bodies of the doomed sub float to the surface, something ...