Jurassic World: Dominion review: You can't always bring old fossils back to...
Just over a fortnight ago, Tom Cruise showed exactly how you breathe new cinematic life into a much-loved old classic. Alas, Jurassic World: Dominion is no Top Gun: Maverick.
View ArticleMen review: Jessie Buckley is a joy, but I can't shake the feeling it's made...
Here Alex Garland is with his third film, Men, an exemplar of the popular folk-horror genre, very much in the tradition of The Wicker Man and Midsommar.
View ArticleTop Gun: Maverick review: This joins the ranks as one of the greatest action...
As the final credits roll at the end of Top Gun: Maverick , something quite beautiful happens.
View ArticleBenediction review: After an awkward start, it blends clever verbal jousting...
Siegfried Sassoon is rightly celebrated as one of the great First World War poets but it is often forgotten that he lived well into the modern age, eventually dying in 1967 at the age of 80.
View ArticleThe Quiet Girl review: A truly beautiful and deeply moving work of cinematic...
Oh my goodness, The Quiet Girl is a truly beautiful and deeply moving work of cinematic wonder.
View ArticleDr Strange review: Elizabeth Olsen's stellar performance is the only part...
From a clunky opening that could have tumbled straight out of Doctor Who to a scene involving a bus-chomping octopus, one thing quickly becomes clear: this is no film for proper grown-ups.
View ArticleDownton Abbey review: Does A New Era have the same old charm?
Of all the film franchises likely to embrace the growing cinematic fad for going a bit 'meta', just about the last on anyone's list would surely be the well-starched Downton Abbey.
View ArticleThe Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent review: A faltering yet funny...
Nicolas Cage is Hollywood royalty, famous for being... well, Nic Cage, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola and for making at least as many bad films as good ones.
View ArticleOperation Mincemeat review: A war film like no other? Mission accomplished...
This star-studded film, at times, seems to have employed just about every character actor on British Equity's books - and is seriously classy.
View ArticleFantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore review: It's back to its magical...
Poor J. K. Rowling - creator of Harry Potter, of course - may have brought pleasure to millions, but she has not been having the easiest of times of late.
View ArticleTrue Things review: Stylish, atmospheric, but running out of steam
The basic story at the heart of True Things is a familiar one - nice but lonely and slightly mixed-up girl meets handsome, good-for-nothing - and we're pretty sure no good will come from it.
View ArticleAmbulance review: Michael Bay's latest is large, loud but a bit...
Michael Bay's creative hallmarks remain guns, big explosions and car chases, and all three feature large and deafeningly loud in Ambulance.
View ArticleThe Phantom Of The Open review: Mark Rylance is below par as Maurice...
There are some films that try just that little bit too hard to make you like them, performing the cinematic equivalent of a puppy rolling on its back and inviting you to tickle its tummy.
View ArticleRed Rocket review: Sean Baker leavens the seedy film with dark humour and...
From the moment he shouts his name through the rickety front door - 'It's Mikey' - there's something about the central character in Sean Baker's seedy new film, Red Rocket , that sets your teeth on...
View ArticleThe Batman review: Will he ever stop moaning? Robert Pattinson is so moody...
When a film is as long as The Batman there's only one question worth asking: is it really worth three hours of my life?
View ArticleCyrano review: It keeps up with the likes of Les Mis thanks to a generous...
Ah, Cyrano , many of you will be thinking, we know that one. It's about the poor chap who's in love with a pretty girl called Roxanne but doesn't stand a chance because of his humungous nose.
View ArticleDog review: This patriotic comedy is undeniably watchable despite its...
Dog is not exactly a subtle film, as the monosyllabic title clearly suggests. Not only does it star Channing Tatum but it's co-directed by him too, and is essentially a road-trip movie.
View ArticleDeath On The Nile review: Kenneth Branagh is by no means a perfect Poirot in...
Oh, mon Dieu, as the great Hercule Poirot might say. Kenneth Branagh's long-awaited, much-postponed, scandal-hit remake of Death On The Nile finally staggers into our cinemas.
View ArticleThe Eyes Of Tammy Faye review: It's no surprise Jessica Chastain has...
Ahead of actually seeing it, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye wasn't meaning very much to me, title-wise at least. I knew it starred Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield but Tammy Faye? Nope, meant nothing.
View ArticleParallel Mothers review: Penélope Cruz delivers an award-worthy performance
Any film directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring his regular collaborator Penélope Cruz is almost certainly bound to be worthy of attention, and so it duly proves with Parallel Mothers .
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