Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom review: Lacking cast chemistry
Three years ago, the first Jurassic World film didn’t just reboot the old and much loved dino franchise, it completely transformed it.
View ArticleOcean's 8 review: Eight huge stars, one big flop into the ocean
Just like Hannibal Smith in The A-Team, I love it when a plan comes together. But if I’m absolutely honest, there’s also a certain pleasure in watching a plan fall apart too.
View ArticleThis remake of the Goldie Hawn comedy classic is not so much Overboard as...
Overboard is a comedy about a spoilt and wealthy yacht-owner who falls off their boat one night, wakes up with amnesia and is then picked up by someone claiming to be their spouse.
View ArticleA superb Shailene Woodley makes Adrift worth catching, despite a predictable...
Given the title, it’s no surprise that Adrift begins with incontrovertible evidence of disaster. A young woman regains consciousness in the flooded cabin of a dismasted yacht.
View ArticleSwimming With Men starring Rob Brydon is both funny and poignantly moving
Amazingly, there isn’t just one film out about male synchronised swimming this year; there are two, a fact that, once discovered, filled me with absolute dread.
View ArticleIncredibles 2: Even better than the original
You’ve got to feel sorry for the Underminer. I give little away when I say that his work is done and dusted in barely ten minutes.
View ArticleMamma Mia! 2 review: How could you resist it?
But Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again gets off to such a sad, minor-key start that it takes almost an hour to get itself back on tuneful track again.
View ArticleMission: Impossible – Fallout: More like Mission Unmissable
With three spectacular chase sequences and some top-notch female casting, it’s the best Mission: Impossible film since… well, since the last one, because that was very good too.
View ArticlePaul Rudd leads a top-notch cast in Ant-Man And The Wasp, a super sequel...
Towards the end of Ant-Man And The Wasp, two remarkable things occur. One is an end-credit postscript that produced gasps in the screening I attended.
View ArticleDespite the so-so acting and dodgy visual effects, The Meg proves a lot of...
At a basic level, The Meg is a very silly film about a group of scientists accidentally unleashing a giant shark that most believed had been extinct for over two million years on an unsuspecting world.
View ArticleChristopher Robin review: A film of only very limited charm
The visual effects are fine – as you’d expect – but the camerawork has some odd moments, and McGregor and Atwell are no better than so-so.
View ArticleThe Children Act review: A crying shame
McEwan reworks his own ending, presumably in an attempt to heighten the drama, but by then the damage is done.
View ArticleThe Happytime Murders review: A strange film, not not funny enough
Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets and for millions of us the only real voice of Kermit the Frog, died 28 years ago, and for most of those three decades his legacy has seemed splendidly secure.
View ArticleBarely a spoonful of humour, really quite atrocious in parts: Tully is no...
Amazingly, it is more than ten years since Diablo Cody hit headlines making her screen-writing debut with Juno, that still highly regarded, bittersweet tale of unplanned teen pregnancy.
View ArticleEntebbe is a finely-acted and thought-provoking take on the most daring...
On June 27, 1976, four hijackers – two West German, two Palestinian – seized control of an Air France plane flying from Athens to Paris.
View ArticleOn Chesil Beach review: Saoirse Ronan is sensational
Sex was invented in 1963, according to the poet Philip Larkin, which may have been a little late for him but certainly explains why Ian McEwan based On Chesil Beach in 1962.
View ArticleEvent's guide to summer’s top 10 blockbusters
The blockbuster is BACK, and this summer sees the return of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible and Jeff Goldblum in Jurrasic Park. And the ladies dominate in Ocean's 8!
View ArticleSolo: A Star Wars Story review: Delivers relentless fun
You can see Solo: A Star Wars Story as a movie that, exhaustingly, is just one sci-fi film staple after another and proves that Alden Ehrenreich, the young actor who takes on the role of Han Solo in...
View ArticleBook Club review: 'Has an undeniable if sporadic charm'
The starting point for Book Club is as wearying as it is depressing. ‘Ladies,’ purrs Jane Fonda, clutching four copies of something horribly familiar to her bosom, ‘let me introduce you to Christian...
View ArticleJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom review: Lacking cast chemistry
Three years ago, the first Jurassic World film didn’t just reboot the old and much loved dino franchise, it completely transformed it.
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