Category: Reviews
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My All-American – Review
If you’re officially tired of the sports movie formula, My All-American isn’t going to blow you away. However, it’s still a hard movie not to enjoy and admire. Read More >
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The Lady in the Van – Review
The Lady in the Van is a film that balances the profound with the farcical, while maintaining the whimsicality throughout. 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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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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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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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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Life – Review
“Biopics are a regular occurrence in cinema, but few have been as accomplished as this endeavour in recent years.” Read More >
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Legend – Review
“Hardy manages to be one of the only actors to have ever put in both a superb performance and a mediocre performance – in the very same movie.” Read More >
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Straight Outta Compton – Review
A couple familiar beats and an overly long running time aside, Straight Outta Compton is a powerful biopic about artists expressing how they see the world. Read More >
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