White Bird movie review: Kindness takes a much deeper, historical meaning in this Helen Mirren film
Kindness was a big part of the story of the bestseller book Wonder by R J Palacio. In this film base...
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Joker Folie a Deux movie review: Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix star in a more mature, less desperate Gotham sequel
Joker is still not the Batman nemesis, Gotham ghoul he will be. Instead, Todd Phillips’s eponymous c...
Wolfs: An unapologetic vanity project for Brad Pitt, George Clooney
Who doesn’t want to see Brad Pitt and George Clooney play off each other? Their grey stubbles, their...
Never Let Go movie review: Halle Berry film can’t decide whether to keep evil real, or the real evil
In keeping with the spirit of its title, this latest film by Alexandre Aja is about never letting go...
Transformers One movie review: A self-conscious origin tale
This could easily be a story about humans living under false delusions and lies, who one day discove...
Speak No Evil movie review: James McAvoy is the host from hell in this remake
A remake of a 2022 Danish slick hit, Speak No Evil is less a terror of manners compared to it, and m...
Strange Darling movie review: An impressively crafted thriller
We meet her as she runs out of the woods, the green behind her, dressed all in red, blonde hair matt...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice movie review: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder film lacks juice
Ghosts don’t age, but films certainly do. So the question is, can Tim Burton revive the mix of macab...
Afraid movie review: This film needs an AI check
Perhaps the worst thing that can be said about Afraid (or, as it calls itself ambitiously at some pl...
Alien Romulus review: There is Kill, then Overkill
ROMULUS may have founded Rome but, as they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day. The Alien franchise too ...
Blink Twice movie review: Same Difference
Didn’t we just have a film and a show, or two, about a crazy rich person who gathers beautiful peopl...
The Union: Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry deserve better than this Netflix release
There once was a documentary called Union that captured the struggles of blue collar workers to unio...
Borderlands movie review: Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis can’t save this generic film
There is a galaxy that was once ruled by a species called the “Eridians”, who had the kind of powers...
It Ends With Us movie review: Blake Lively is perpetually wistful in adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling book
The surprise bestseller by Colleen Hoover on which this film is based, and named, actually held very...
Mothers’ Instinct movie review: Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway pack enough switches to keep it interesting
It is significant where the apostrophe lies in this film’s title. It is Mothers’ Instinct, not mothe...
Trap movie review: Shyamalan the writer lets down Shyamalan the director, again
Trap movie review: Even in an arena full of 20,000-plus screaming pre-teens and teenage girls, and t...
Treasure movie review: Lena Dunham inhabits the intersection between private grief, public sorrow
The star of this film, about the ways private grief and public sorrow intersect, is Poland. Two year...
Twisters movie review: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell ride into the eye of the storm for no coherent reason
In a quintessential Republican country in the Midwest US, ordinary White folks making a living with ...
Fly Me To The Moon movie review: A criminal waste of Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum
Much as we want space exploration to be all about the giant leaps for mankind, a lot of it is about ...
Longlegs movie review: Maika Monroe film fails to impress
Oz Perkins, the director is big on first impressions. And if Longlegs is intent on something, it is ...
Despicable Me 4 movie review: With none of the laughs and little of the warmth
The law of diminishing returns caught up with Despicable Me some time back – more precisely, seven y...
A Quiet Place Day One movie review: Lupita Nyong’o is brilliant in a film that refuses to settle down
This must be the world’s most lavishly mounted advertisement for a pizza. For, as we are finally sho...
The Bikeriders movie review: Tom Hardy shines in this movie about men and their motorcycles
In this movie about men and their motorcycles, their leather-clothed tough exteriors and their suppo...
The Exorcism movie review: Russell Crowe puts himself, and us, through torture
Bad things have been known to happen on the set of horror films, reported dutifully. Who would have ...
Inside Out 2 movie review: The Inside Out sequel is a winner
If Inside Out needed a sequel, one can’t ask for a better one. Riley (voiced this time by Tallman) i...
The Watchers movie review: Dakota Fanning does her best to lift the film
When M Night Shyamalan gets it right, he gets it quite right. But when he gets it wrong, it’s a down...
Fast Charlie movie review: Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin make it worthwhile
Pierce Brosnan is a man of unimpeachable taste. Why should it be any different when he is getting hi...
The Strangers Chapter 1 movie review: Madelaine Petsch, Froy Gutierrez star in a familiar story
A population of 460-odds, in a town called Venus, in the middle of nowhere in Oregon, where children...
Bhaiyya Ji movie review: Weak film does Manoj Bajpayee no credit
Exactly to the date a year ago, director Apurv Singh Karki and actor Manoj Bajpayee came together in...
The Three Musketeers Part II Milady movie review: Eva Green, Vincent Cassel lead a clash of swords and wits
The lavish second film in the adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s much-loved novel by Martin Bourboulon ...