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: 3.0★
Most time-travel films are essentially flashy, convoluted messes that rely on a massive CGI budget to paper over their narrative plot holes. So when I sat down to watch Shane Carruth's 2004 indie mind-bender, I was bracing myself for something in the vein of The Butterfly
Rating: 2.0★
I was there for the original cartoon. I wore out the VHS of the 1987 film so many times the tracking lines practically became part of the aesthetic. So going into Travis Knight's 2026 live-action Masters of the Universe, I was hesitantly hopeful, clinging to the faint
Rating: 2.0★
What does it take to make a billion dollars at the global box office? Apparently, you just have to do the exact same thing you did three times before and turn the volume up a little louder. That's the only conclusion I can draw from Transformers: Age of
Rating: 2.0★
You know the deal going in. Nobody sits down for a Michael Bay blockbuster expecting Ingmar Bergman. But even with every expectation already calibrated to "loud, chaotic, and relentless," Transformers: Dark of the Moon still manages to exhaust you in ways you didn't quite see coming.
Rating: 3.0★
There's a particular pleasure in tracking a cultural phenomenon back to its source, and Moonrunners is exactly that kind of discovery. Gy Waldron's 1975 film is the undisputed progenitor of The Dukes of Hazzard, and the DNA is all over it: moonshine runs, dusty Southern backroads,
Rating: 4.0★
Let me be honest with you: I walked into Project Hail Mary fully prepared to be disappointed. The early critic chatter was dominated by how "cute" and "funny" Ryan Gosling's companion was, and that framing had me bracing for some kind of cosmic Disney
Rating: 2.5★
If you've seen one supernatural slasher, you've essentially seen them all, and Whistle is unlikely to change your mind on that front. Corin Hardy's 2025 picture feels like someone took the Rube Goldberg mortality mechanics of Final Destination, mashed them up with the urban
Rating: 4.5★
For years, I've been saying that Oscar Isaac is this generation's Al Pacino. After sitting through Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, I'm ready to eat those words whole and hand that mantle straight to Timothée Chalamet. This is, and I don't
Rating: 3.0★
When a filmmaker grabs you by the collar with one short film, you go looking for more. That's exactly what happened after I saw Garrett Bradley's America, which left such a mark on me that I went straight to Alone, her 2017 short. What I found
Rating: 3.0★
There's something genuinely rare about a horror film that gets under your skin on a rewatch just as much as it did the first time. I came back to Gore Verbinski's 2002 remake of The Ring recently, and I came away reminded of exactly why this
Rating: 2.0★
I went into this one buzzing with anticipation. As a massive fan of Snowfall and someone who's spent a fair amount of time reading and watching around the American crack cocaine epidemic, I was primed. The promise of a documentary tackling how that drug hollowed out communities, shaped
Bergenfield Film Festival
Brianna Lee has been incredibly busy lately. Her feature The Troll premiered at Raindance this year and her short The Camper is playing the horror circuit, and she does very nearly every job on her films herself. Home is something else entirely. It is an eight-minute short, having had
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