American cinema stretches from the silent comedies of Buster Keaton, The Cameraman among them, through to the sharp, funny indie work of films like Booksmart. It's a tradition wide enough to hold big-studio spectacle, low-budget horror, and everything in between. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 4.5★
There is a particular kind of filmmaker who treats cinema less like storytelling and more like controlled detonation, and Josh Safdie is firmly in that camp. After cutting his teeth on scrappier, street-level fare alongside his brother Benny, including the brothers' breakthrough with Uncut Gems (2019), Josh steps
Rating: 3.0★
Short-form documentary has long occupied an uneasy space in cinema, respected in festival circles and often overlooked everywhere else. The thirteen-minute runtime is its own kind of discipline: there is no room for padding, no space to bury a weak idea under running time. When it works, the
Rating: 3.0★
Horror remakes are a risky business at the best of times, and the early 2000s were full of Hollywood studios eyeing up Japanese genre cinema with the kind of enthusiasm that did not always translate well to screen. Ringu, Hideo Nakata's 1998 adaptation of Koji Suzuki's
Rating: 2.0★
The crack cocaine epidemic that swept through American cities during the 1980s and into the 1990s is one of the most consequential and contested chapters in recent United States history. Its origins, its spread, and the role of various government agencies in either enabling or ignoring it remain subjects of
Rating: 2.5★
There are films that announce themselves as Important Events and films that simply turn up, do their job with a grin on their face, and leave you feeling better than you did before. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) belongs very much to the second category. The premise is clean
Rating: 3.0★
There are films that arrive with a straightforward pitch and deliver more or less what they promise, and then there are films like Mad God. Phil Tippett's feature debut as director is something else entirely: a stop-motion nightmare three decades in the making, resurrected from a shelved
Rating: 3.5★
British cinema has always had a complicated relationship with its own class system, from the kitchen-sink dramas of the 1960s through to the heritage pictures that followed, and Emerald Fennell's Saltburn arrives very much in that tradition, even as it does its best to tear the wallpaper
Rating: 3.0★
Noah Kahan arrived somewhere between folk and indie-pop at precisely the right moment. The Vermont singer-songwriter had been quietly building a following for several years before "Stick Season" turned into something neither he nor anyone at his label had entirely predicted: a genuine cultural phenomenon, the
Rating: 3.0★
There are certain corners of the Disney back catalogue that feel less like films and more like shared memories, and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh sits comfortably near the top of that list. The bear of very little brain first appeared in A.A. Milne's 1926
Rating: 3.5★
There are few animated franchises that carry as much cultural weight as Toy Story. When Pixar released the original film in 1995, it did not merely launch a series, it reshaped the entire landscape of feature animation. The three films that followed (and the various shorts, such as Toy Story
Rating: 3.5★
Video game adaptations have, for the better part of three decades, carried a reputation somewhere between "ambitious misfire" and "straight-to-bargain-bin disaster." From the chaotic live-action pantomime of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film to the reliably forgettable string of Uwe Boll productions,
Rating: 4.5★
There are films that arrive fully formed, seemingly from nowhere, and lodge themselves permanently in the cultural memory. The Muppet Movie, released in the summer of 1979, is one of them. Kermit the Frog had been a television fixture since Jim Henson first began tinkering with puppets in the mid-
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