Category: Reviews
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Kidnapping Freddy Heineken – Review
“sympathising with these protagonists is evidently the ultimate goal – and yet it’s never achieved” Read More >
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Wild Card – Review
“Jason Statham is Jason Statham with a Jason Statham accent in this Jason Statham thriller”… Read More >
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The Gunman – Review
This uninvolving and largely forgettable thriller is only worthy of note for adding Sean Penn to the ever growing list of actors seeking a second career as action stars later in their careers… Read More >
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The Tale of Princess Kaguya – Review
“proves there’s still plenty of life in Ghibli left, with or without Miyazaki.” Read More >
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White Bird in a Blizzard – Review
With her impressive performance in Insurgent, not to mention her empathetic turn in The Fault in our Stars – yet again Shailene Woodley is the best thing about an underwhelming movie, starring in Gregg Araki’s overtly melodramatic feature White Bird in a Blizzard. The young, talented actress manages to find a strand of subtlety in… Read More >
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Suite Francaise – Review
“An all-star cast and a sweeping wartime story should have been the stuff of little gold statuettes. However, the fact that this well-meaning but ultimately mediocre romance didn’t even get a look in, should speak volumes…” Read More >
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Hyena – Review
The British gangster crime drama feels cursed. It’s been explored so often in cinema post-Guy Ritchie, and for the most part, so inefficiently, that anybody else who dares give it a shot feels as though they’re stepping over old ground, abiding by convention… Read More >
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Run All Night – Review
The relief felt when discovering that this most generic-looking Liam Neeson action flick is the least generic-feeling of his recent output, is palpable. Run All Night proves that there is still plenty of fight left in the old dog yet. Read More >
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Face of an Angel – Review
“The film fails to take off because of the confused messages being sent out, but is still a project that will instigate debate both on the controversial subject matter, as well as the wider issue of ethics in journalism in general.” Read More >
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Focus – Review
“in Focus, we’re the victim – regular people going about our everyday life, only to have someone steal something valuable from us. It makes for a film that’s difficult to connect with”… Read More >
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