Category: Reviews

  • You Were Never Really Here Review

    At less than ninety minutes, Ramsay and editor Joe Bini manage to make You Were Never Really Here a film that feels simultaneously deeply rich and incredibly sparse. Read More >

  • L’Amant Double Review

    Ozon also directs L’Amant Double with an approach that resembles someone throwing the kitchen sink at the screen and then the cutlery draw shortly after. Read More >

  • Alien: Covenant review

    Like its 1979 predecessor, Alien: Covenant is essentially a haunted house movie in space with plenty of screams to go around. Read More >

  • Unlocked Review

    This badly-written, poorly acted and quite spectacularly overstated production ensures that its pertinence is pretty much it’s only selling point. Read More >

  • Sleepless Review

    With a myriad of plot holes, it’s a film you might not want to take at face value, with an injection of irreverence, and a playful nature that just about lets it off the hook. Just. Read More >

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  • Unforgettable Review

    For a film that should thrive in its elusive nature, and use suspense as its greatest tool and means of storytelling, instead it gives too much away, leaving nowhere to truly go. Read More >

  • The Fate of the Furious Review

    The Fate of the Furious further demonstrates why this franchise is everything that mindless escapism should be. Read More >

  • Life Review

    Heavily influenced by Alien, though somewhat too closely at times, it’s in the antagonist of the piece where such similarities are effective, for we have no way of understanding Calvin, and what it’s capable of. Read More >

  • Shut In Review

    Relies on easy to achieve jumpy moments to evoke feelings of terror, and fails miserably in the process. Read More >

  • John Wick: Chapter 2 Review

    John Wick: Chapter 2 actually ups the ante, earning comparison to Terminator 2, Die Hard 2, and The Bourne Ultimatum. Read More >