Movie Reviews

Empowered Muslim lawyer Leila (Mouna Hawa) and lesbian Christian DJ Salma (Sana Jammelieh) share a flat and a party-girl lifestyle, rejecting the patriarchal strictures of their respective traditions in favour...

Two young disabled men working together on their own comic book, wheelchair user Zoli (Zoltán Fenyvesi) and Barba (Adám Fekete) who has cerebral palsy, find life imitating art and their lives turned upside...

In the Summer of 1989 in the small town of Derry, Maine, children are disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Knowing the culprit to be an evil, shapeshifting clown, seven young misfits (known as the...

Estranged sisters Leah (Francesca Eastwood) and Vee (Taryn Manning) are forced to put aside their simmering resentment when brother Michael (Scott Haze) screws up and finds himself owing a lot of money to some...

Moving on from co-directing wildly entertaining ‘haunted house’ chiller The Tour, writer/director Alex Mathieson returns to the short film format with new shocker Jitterman. And what a treat he’s...

Bringing her boyfriend home to meet the grandmother who raised her, it seems like a normal day for college student Lucy (Brittany Snow) as she steps off the subway train in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighbourhood....

Ramping up the mind games, while throwing in some impressive bloodshed for good measure, writer/director Damon Rickard returns with his latest effective short, Stolen. Bigger, and arguably better, than his...

Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is an elite spy working in MI6 during the Cold War. Following the murder of a fellow agent, she is sent to Berlin to retrieve a valuable dossier containing sensitive...

A Ghost Story is a hard film to review but a deceptively easy one to summarise. A young couple, C (Casey Affleck) and M (Rooney Mara) live and love in a small rented house in smallish town Texas. A musician...

History is always written by the victors. It’s a sad fact but war crimes are only ever the preserve of the losing side. In the Summer of 1945, at the close of the Second World War, the Western coastline...

Told from the perspective of land, air and sea in June 1940, 400,000 British and French troops are stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. With the enemy closing in and attacking from the air, the clock is ticking...

After an alcoholic nervous breakdown at work, middle aged, mild-mannered accountant Duval (François Cluzet) finds himself unemployed and unemployable. Two years later, he’s living an almost monastic...

A visionary director and true artist of the form, things have been a bit quiet on the cinematic front from David Lynch for the last decade or so. Sure, he's been banging the drum for the joys and benefits...

It’s become almost a sport to hate Terrence Malick, to mock him, to dismiss him as a parody of his own reclusive, enigmatic image, his films nothing more than pretentious, philosophical wool-gathering. For...

Following his cameo with the Avengers in Civil War, a young Peter Parker (Tom Holland) returns home under the supervision of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). Struggling to adapt to a normal routine, Peter is...

Baby (Ansel Elgort) decides to leave his life of crime behind when he meets the love of his life, Debora (Lily James). However, being the best in the business causes problems for Baby when his crime lord boss,...

By Lillie Almond All Eyez on Me, a biopic about Tupac Shakur, follows his rise to fame, his highs and lows, his time with Death Row Records, and some intimate facets of his love life. By taking you on so...

"Hoka hey!" It's a commonly held misconception popularised by Buffalo Bill and his travelling show, by dime novels and B-movies, by the organic mythology of the Old West, that this Sioux saying that Crazy...

“I have less and less respect for them …I think they don’t even do what they do very well anymore.” – Maggie Renzi, The Story of Film This quote truly encapsulates the hard truth that the corpse...

Once the Princess of the Amazons, Diana (Gal Gadot) looks back on her past as an unstoppable warrior. However, when a warplane carrying an American spy (Chris Pine) crash lands on her hidden island, she learns...

Solitary but content, middle-aged local shepherd Anselmo (Miguel Martin) lives alone in a shack just outside of town with his dog Pillo. It’s a tough but rewarding existence - Anselmo spending long days...