Category: Reviews
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Burnt – Review
Despite having the esteemed screenwriter Steven Knight on board, where Burnt suffers most greatly, is within the hackneyed screenplay. Read More >
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Our Brand is Crisis – Review
If you’re looking for a much better movie about the messy political game, check out out The Ides of March. Compared to that film, Our Brand is Crisis is basically what Bernie Sanders is to Hilary Clinton. Read More >
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Brooklyn – Review
“where Brooklyn stands out, is within the quite astonishing performance by Ronan, cementing herself as one of the great actresses working today”… Read More >
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Taxi – Review
“This faux-documentary thrives in the naturalistic approach taken, as Panahi studiously lingers over the nuances and subtleties of everyday life.” Read More >
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Beasts of No Nation – Review
The loss of innocence is one of cinema’s favourite themes, but it’s rarely because an AK-47 is aiming at someone’s head. Beasts of No Nation, a Netflix exclusive from True Detective director Cary Fukunaga, is a spellbinding yet harrowing parable about a nation’s destructive past and uncertain future, and a boy’s horrific journey across the thin… Read More >
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Victoria – Review
With a final running time of 138 minutes, it’s kind of ironic that this one-shot feature film could’ve used more editing. Read More >
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Room – Review
All you need to know is that this is an extraordinary, life-affirming motion picture about the bond of love. Read More >
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Dheepan – Review
The graceful fade-to-blacks that punctuate Dheepan, Jacques Audiard’s latest ball-busting, gritty drama, hint at the shadowy underside to its already blackened landscape. Whatever form the darkness takes next is typically a grim mockery of something innocent; light-up bunny ears (2 euro!) dissolve into focus from the murk, even though the scene just before has depicted… Read More >
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A Tale of Three Cities – Review
When you next watch a Jackie Chan film, just remember that his parents – Charles and Lee-Lee Chan – went through hell so the groundbreaking movie star could exist in the first place. A Tale of Three Cities, directed by Mabel Cheung, is a romantic epic set in China’s not-too-distant past; a turbulent time beset… Read More >
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