Ocean'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 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 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 Miseducation Of Cameron Post review: Smart, funny and unsettling
Last year, one of the most talked-about films of the summer was the gorgeous-looking art-house hit Call Me By Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino.
View Article'Decidedly uneven and lacking in drama': Hatton Garden heist film King Of...
King Of Thieves is co-produced by those clever people at Working Title, directed by James Marsh (who made the wonderful The Theory Of Everything) and stars those two giants of British cinema.
View ArticleThe House With A Clock In Its Walls definitely gets better as it goes along,...
The House With A Clock In Its Walls is a film that reminds you of a lot of others. The mix of orphans and clocks calls Hugo to mind, and mixing orphans with sinister relatives gets you to Lemony...
View ArticleThe Wife review: Glenn Close edges towards an Oscar
Glenn Close is now 71 and, when you think of her best work, there’s no doubt you quickly find yourself going a long way back. Fatal Attraction is more than 30 years old now.
View ArticleA Star Is Born review: Lady Gaga dazzles
Honestly, I could watch the first 45 minutes of A Star Is Born over and over – and over – again. It’s one of the most deliciously romantic and brilliantly executed bits of film-making you’ll ever see.
View ArticleFirst Man review: Stunningly realistic
The line ‘Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth’ may have been written by John Gillespie Magee Jr, to describe the joy of high-altitude flight, but it was made famous by President Reagan.
View ArticleHalloween review: Terrifying scenes
Laurie Strode has always been a straight-talking woman, and she remains that way as the new Halloween film feels the understandable need to notch it up another bloody gear or two.
View ArticleBohemian Rhapsody review: Terrible hair, terrible teeth and terrifying male...
Bohemian Rhapsody is a film of terrible hair, terrible teeth and terrifying male catsuits. I’d forgotten about Freddie Mercury's harlequin outfit, and am still traumatised by the reminder.
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