Category: Reviews
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Don’t Breathe – Review
Don’t Breathe is well crafted, effectively acted, and full of clever twists. Read More >
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Cell – Review
Cell grows far too irreverent in the latter stages that we lose sight of any message it is vying to preach, undermining its very own point. Read More >
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The Shallows – Review
The Shallows is a film that while undoubtedly entertaining, veers so far from realism that it distances itself from the viewer. Read More >
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Nerve – Review
Though Nerve is a flawed film, there’s certainly a pertinent, important message to this unique slice of contemporary cinema. Read More >
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Jason Bourne – Review
Jason Bourne is a worthy, electrifying addition to this remarkable series of films, standing up to what came before. Read More >
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Strangerland – Review
Of the Australian movies that reach other shores, most show a sense of craft that reaffirms just what thrillers can accomplish. From the past six years alone: Animal Kingdom, The Rover, Snowtown, Mystery Road, The Mule – and more – have all helped refine genre elements into something approaching a total national mastery. Sadly, the newest export, Strangerland, doesn’t enter… Read More >
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Jet Trash – Review (Edinburgh Film Festival)
Jet Trash is a good-looking film and has an equally attractive cast who are let down by an overly-stylistic visual look and under written script. Read More >
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Now You See Me 2 – Review
Nobody goes to a film like this for rich character development. They go for the creative tricks, the colorful imagery, and the entrancing showmanship. That’s exactly what Now You See Me 2 promises and it more than delivers. Read More >
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Misconduct – Review
Shintaro Shimosawa’s debut production Misconduct has not been billed as a comedy, for this intensely dark thriller has very little association with that genre. Yet it does provide many laughs to the audience, the problem is, however, they’re never actually intentional… Read More >
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The Salesman – Review (Cannes Film Festival)
The Salesman is compelling for the most part, but the lack of connection to Rana – who is so simply presented and given so little to do – makes the film hard to engage with on an emotional level. Read More >
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