Rating: 3.5★
The Last Detail hangs on a small, quietly infuriating injustice. A young sailor, barely more than a boy, has been handed eight years in a naval prison for stealing forty dollars from a charity box. Two hardened Navy men are tasked with delivering him there: Nicholson's foul-mouthed
Rating: 3.5★
Sometimes you just want a lean, punchy, no-nonsense bit of classic noir. No grand ambitions, no bloated runtime, no second-guessing itself. Just sharp dialogue, hard shadows, and a plot that knows exactly where it's going. Pickup on South Street delivers all of that and then gets
Rating: 3.0★
You have seen the bones of Man on Fire before, probably several times over. A burnt-out, hard-drinking former operative reluctantly takes a job protecting a young girl; they clash, they bond, she is snatched, and he sets about a merciless campaign to get her back. It is the
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Marking Tommy Lee Jones at 80: a look back across Tommy's career through the films I've reviewed.
Rating: 3.5★
The scariest thing in Pulse is almost never the thing you are actually looking at. That is the film's central trick, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa pulls it off with a quiet, devastating patience that most horror directors would struggle to match even once, let alone sustain across a full
Rating: 3.5★
River Phoenix is the reason to watch this film. That much is clear within the first few minutes, and it never stops being clear. As Mike, the narcoleptic street hustler drifting through the Pacific Northwest in search of a mother and a home he can barely picture, he is raw
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Bel was, for me, one of the most moving films of the year, a tender, aching portrait of the Scottish-Kenyan musician Beldina Odenyo, who recorded as Heir of the Cursed, built by director Louise Lockwood as something much closer to an act of love than a conventional documentary. You
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We are living through one of those rare moments when a whole new way of being human is invented in real time. Just as the early twentieth century gave us the idea of "a career", our own age has conjured the influencer, and society is still scrambling to
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Babystar was one of the sharpest, most unsettling debuts I saw all year. It imagines a family of influencers whose teenage daughter, Luca, has had her entire life turned into content since before she was even born, and it uses that premise to say something genuinely bracing about the first
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Here's the thing about the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot: it had exactly one job. One. Deliver bone-crunching, over-the-top, fatality-drenched carnage with a bit of heart holding it together. That's it. That's the whole brief. And somehow, despite every advantage a
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There are films you watch and films you remember, and The Jungle Book is firmly in the second camp. I couldn't tell you the first time I saw it, because it feels like it was always just there, woven into the furniture of early memory alongside the smell
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There's a moment in Tim Burton's Dumbo remake when you realise nothing is actually going to happen. Not emotionally, anyway. The big ears flap, the little elephant takes flight, the crowd gasps, and I felt absolutely nothing. That's not supposed to be possible with
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