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★
The cover art for Wim Wenders' 2018 documentary is genuinely quite cool. Striking, minimalist, it promises something profound and intimate about the life of the modern pontiff. But the moment you actually press play, that sleek packaging gives way to what is, without exaggeration, one of the most by-
Rating: 3.0★
There are films that tell you a story, and there are films that hit you somewhere you didn't know you were vulnerable. Arthur Jafa's Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death is firmly in the second camp. Seven minutes long and composed entirely of found
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of Aquaman that could have been genuinely great. Think about it: an underwater kingdom, bioluminescent cities, armies riding seahorses into battle, a king who talks to fish. Lean into that absurdity with real commitment and you might have something genuinely special on your hands. James
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment about halfway through Personal Shopper where Kristen Stewart's character sits alone on a train, exchanging cryptic text messages with an unknown sender, and the film genuinely crackles with unease. It's tense, it's modern, it's quietly terrifying in
Rating: 3.0★
There's something almost perverse about how appealing Pawo Choyning Dorji makes exile look. The premise of Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom sounds, on paper, like a punishment: a young, ambitious teacher yanked away from his city life and dispatched to what is reportedly the most remote school
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: 2.5★
There is a very specific moment early in Crumbs where a supposed alien artefact is dramatically revealed, and I'm fairly certain it's just a repainted plastic water pistol. I couldn't tell you whether Miguel Llansó intended that as a joke, a statement, or simply
Rating: 3.5★
Some of my wife's family hails from Cambodia, so I've heard my fair share of harrowing stories about the Khmer Rouge over the years. Those conversations, shared around kitchen tables and over family dinners, are heavy in a way that's hard to articulate. And
Rating: 2.0★
There's a moment in La Llorona that perfectly sums up my frustration with the whole thing. A character hears a strange noise. He goes to investigate. The camera frames him cleverly, one room in sharp focus, the adjacent bedroom sitting open and empty behind him. I was braced.
Rating: 2.0★
My kids are going through a full-on Pokémon phase at the moment, which means every spare evening involves trading cards, video games, and, apparently, me sitting down to rewatch things I probably should have left well alone. That's how I ended up revisiting Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo
Rating: 3.0★
There's a very specific, undeniable magic to the moment the needle drops on a classic Trojan Records compilation. That warm crackle, the skank of the rhythm guitar, the brass punching through. Nicolas Jack Davies's 2018 documentary Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records captures that exact frequency,
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