Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment in Joy Ride where a voice crackles out of a CB radio and the temperature in the car drops ten degrees. You don't see a face. You don't get a backstory. You just get Ted Levine, all gravel and quiet menace,
Rating: 4.0★
There's a scene early in Capernaum that sets the tone for everything that follows: a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy, sitting in a courtroom, announcing that he is suing his own parents for bringing him into the world. It's one of the most staggering opening
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment in Ali and Nino where the sweeping score swells, the landscape opens up, and you think: yes, this is exactly what historical epic romance is supposed to feel like. Then the scene ends, and you remember that the two people at the centre of it
Rating: 1.0★
Let me be honest with you: I sat through eighty-odd minutes of what is apparently also known as Two of Us, but I watched it under its alternative title, Paradise Z, and I had absolutely no idea what I was in for. What I was hoping for was a
Rating: 4.0★
Let me get this out of the way upfront: yes, The Last Samurai is Americanised. Brazenly, unapologetically, Hollywood-to-its-bones Americanised. And I'm not going to pretend otherwise, because that would be dishonest. The sweeping orchestral score, the larger-than-life heroics, the Western outsider who arrives
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching The Adopted Son when the black and white photography gives way to colour, and it hits you like stepping out of a darkened room into afternoon sunlight. It's a small thing, technically speaking, but it tells you everything about what Aktan Arym
Rating: 2.5★
There's a particular tightrope that films about colonial history have to walk, and most of them fall off it in one direction or the other. Either they sanitise the era into something palatable and pretty, or they overload the screen with guilt until the story suffocates under the
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Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment early in The Suicide Squad where a group of genuinely terrible people are dropped onto a beach and almost immediately torn to shreds, and it sets the tone perfectly. James Gunn is not messing about. This is loud, bloody, irreverent, and thoroughly committed to its
Rating: 2.0★
I've seen just about every version of The Mummy that cinema has thrown at the world. The atmospheric eeriness of the Boris Karloff original, the brilliantly goofy, globe-trotting adventures of Brendan Fraser, and yes, even the ill-fated Tom Cruise reboot that nobody asked for and nobody
Rating: 4.0★
What does it do to a person, being told before you can even speak that your death is already written? That question sits at the heart of Amjad Abu Alala's Sudanese debut, and it never lets go. From the moment a Sufi sheikh delivers his prophecy over a
Rating: 3.5★
There's a scene early in Rungano Nyoni's I Am Not a Witch where a young girl is accused of witchcraft for reasons so flimsy, so breathtakingly absurd, that you'd almost laugh if the consequences weren't so horrifying. That collision of the ridiculous
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