The 2010s were defined by a tension between blockbuster spectacle and a quiet surge in world cinema, with films like Inception and Parasite sitting at opposite ends of a very wide spectrum. Streaming reshaped how audiences found smaller work, and festival circuits felt more vital than ever. Browse Macca's reviews from the decade below.
Rating: 2.5★
There is a moment in Hacksaw Ridge where a soldier casually picks up half a dismembered torso and uses it as a makeshift shield before sprinting forward and mowing down enemy troops with a light machine gun held in just one hand. I had to pause. I genuinely had to
Rating: 1.5★
There is a special kind of cynicism reserved for streaming cash-grabs, and John R. Leonetti's 2019 creature feature The Silence truly takes the biscuit. It is, without exaggeration, essentially a poor, straight-to-streaming tribute act to A Quiet Place. They even threw in a deaf child
Rating: 3.5★
What does it look like when children rewrite their own pain? That question sits at the beating heart of Liyana, and it's the reason this film has stayed with me in a way I didn't entirely expect. There is something genuinely disarming about watching a documentary
Rating: 1.5★
There is a moment in the opening minutes of Attack the Block where a gang of London teenagers mug a young woman at knifepoint, goading and jeering as she runs away in terror. It is the very first thing we see them do. And from that point on, I spent
Rating: 1.5★
I wanted to love this film. I really did. When I found out that Voodoo Man holds a place as one of the most popular homegrown productions ever to come out of St Vincent and the Grenadines, I was immediately intrigued. The Caribbean is a region so rich in folklore,
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching Garrett Bradley's America where you stop trying to work out exactly what you're looking at, and just let it wash over you. That surrender is, I think, exactly what Bradley is after. Shot in gorgeous, high-contrast black-and-white,
Rating: 1.5★
A parched Earth. No oceans. Desperate pilots tearing each other apart in the sky just to harvest what little water the clouds have left. That's a genuinely cracking premise, the kind that makes you sit up and think, right, let's see where this goes. The problem
Rating: 3.0★
There's a specific kind of patience required to sit through a truly slow-burning character study, and Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's Bulgarian drama The Lesson certainly tests it. But honestly, the deliberate pacing isn't the film's biggest flaw. The real tension
Rating: 2.5★
Somewhere between Aquaman and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, I stopped enjoying my self-imposed challenge of working through the billion-dollar box office club on Letterboxd and started genuinely dreading it. What I naively imagined would be a curated tour through modern cinema's crowning achievements has, in
Rating: 3.0★
Ryan Coogler's Black Panther put me in a genuine quandary, and I've been trying to unpick exactly why ever since. Because on paper, this is everything I should want from a superhero film. Strong performances, real directorial ambition, a cultural significance that's impossible to
Rating: 3.0★
By the time the first skiff hits the water in Cutter Hodierne's drama, I was already fighting off a severe case of déjà vu. This is roughly the fourth film I've sat through that attempts to tackle the Somali piracy phenomenon, and while the geopolitical reality
Rating: 1.5★
Let me be straight with you: I am not the biggest fan of avant-garde cinema. Most of the time, I genuinely don't enjoy it, and Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language did absolutely nothing to change my mind. If anything, it reinforced every suspicion I&
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