Category: Reviews
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The Florida Project Review
Part Little Rascals, part Dardennes, Moonee and her mother’s day-to-day activities are so engaging and the characters so richly drawn, that I felt like I could easily have watched another ten hours of The Florida Project. Read More >
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The Beguiled Review
There’s so much potential in almost every aspect of the film that Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled feels so disappointing despite being perfectly okay. Read More >
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties Review
Loud, ramshackle and far to eager to impress, punk meets aliens picture How to Talk to Girls at Parties is like every bad gig you’ve ever been to in a small venue in which a band attempts to poorly regurgitate a bunch of cliched ideas and postures. Read More >
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The Square Review
The Square’s jaw-dropping centre piece in which an art project goes wrong – or so very right depending on your outlook – is the most tense experience I’ve had in a cinema this year. Read More >
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Blade of the Immortal Review
There’s a bit of a mid-film slump, as too often seems to be the case in a number of Miike’s more recent films, but the bloody climax is a phenomenally gripping and action-packed way to pull you out of that sagging middle. Read More >
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Review
Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) will make you chuckle a number of times and maybe even make you feel a little choked up – but not much. It’s good, it’s fine, it’ll do. But afterwards you’ll have a hankering for something more substantial. Read More >
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Baywatch Review
Not quite absurd enough, following a somewhat generic, inane narrative that it supposedly set-out to deconstruct. Read More >
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Promised Land Review
Promised Land is a bit of sprawling imperfect grab bag, but it’s not a huge issue… Read More >
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Wonderstruck Review
Wonderstruck is ultimately consumed by the awfulness of its script. Read More >
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The Dark of Night Review
The Dark of Night is a film with more twists in ten minutes than most films have in their entire running time. Read More >
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