Category: Reviews
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Mississippi Grind – Review
Mississippi Grind is “one of the finest, most absorbing dramas you’ll see this year.” Read More >
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The End of the Tour – Review
Flipping through the dense pages of celebrated author David Foster Wallace, it’s easy to become intimidated, inspired, and maybe also completely lost. The self-conscious, world-aware writer’s towering achievements changed the landscape of the literary scene – but would such virtuoso talent stick to the screen in a meaningful way? Would his acutely attuned insight make… Read More >
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James White – Review
James White is in trouble. His father has just died, and he’s reeling outward in a spiral of alcohol-fuelled despair; he finds it difficult to think about others; his own selfishness keeps dragging him down despite his better intentions. But unfortunately, his horridness bleeds into the movie itself, making James White – yes, he’s so obsessed with… Read More >
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The Program – Review
We struggle to discover the real Lance Armstrong, feeling very much like we’re peering in from the outside, making for a distinctly distant and emotionally disengaging pice of cinema. Read More >
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Crimson Peak – Review
“What can certainly be said of del Toro’s picture is that he’s created a visually striking feature that bears an enchanting, if harrowing ambiance.” Read More >
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Steve Jobs – Review
Just as he did with Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Sorkin doesn’t pin down every little detail about Job’s life. Rather, Sorkin does something much more impressive. He pulls back the emerald curtain and provides a captivating character study. Read More >
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Bridge of Spies – Review
We’ve seen movies about the Cold War before. What’s so absorbing about Bridge of Spies, though, is how screenwriters Matt Charman and the Coen brothers observe matters from a middle-of-the-road perspective. Read More >
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The Club – Review
Pablo Larraín has rather made a name for himself. He hasn’t even hit his forties yet, and the Chilean filmmaker has already made four features which resonated with audiences globally, their tales of powers large and small and the struggle to overcome them, felt by anyone in any country. His latest, The Club, is smaller… Read More >
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Trumbo – Review
After watching Bryan Cranston eat up the frame in the trailer for Trumbo, you’ll be sat there in the cinema, for the movie itself, expecting great things. Snappy repartee; iconic performances; an important message about freedom in Hollywood, articulately told from the setting of the movie industry itself. But Trumbo is far too bitty dramatically, and… Read More >
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Suffragette – Review
Suffragette has taken a riveting, powerful and immensely important story, and told it in a distinctly disengaging way. Read More >
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