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: 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: 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
Rating: 2.5★
That opening sequence is something special. We're dropped into a quaint fishing village, Marat heading out to sea with his wife while her younger sister watches from the docks. Then, without warning, a colossal sandstorm rolls in across the horizon, swallowing everything in its path. It's
2010s
There's a special kind of disappointment that comes from watching a film that doesn't just fail, but fails while desperately trying to be five things at once. The Mummy (2017) is that film. A confused, joyless, soulless mess that takes one of cinema's most
Rating: 3.0★
There's a photograph at the heart of Jonah, and everything falls apart because of it. One man, one camera, one enormous fish leaping in the background, and suddenly a quiet Tanzanian fishing village is never the same again. It sounds almost whimsical, and for a brief moment it
Rating: 2.0★
There's something genuinely fascinating about the idea of San Marinese cinema. San Marino, for those keeping track, is a tiny landlocked republic nestled inside Italy with a population smaller than a mid-sized English market town. Its cinematic output is, as you might expect, not exactly vast. So
Rating: 2.5★
There's something genuinely exciting about watching a film from Brunei. Not because the country is exotic, but because it's one of those rare moments where world cinema opens a door you didn't even know existed. Brunei barely registers on most people's mental
Rating: 4.0★
I went into I, Tonya fully expecting to be mildly entertained by a straightforward ice-skating biopic and mildly bored by the bits in between. I was only a toddler when the Nancy Kerrigan incident was dominating global headlines, so my knowledge going in amounted to little more than a
Rating: 3.0★
There's a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in film writing: "you've never seen anything quite like this." Most of the time it's hyperbole. With Youth (original title Dhalinyaro), directed by Lula Ali Ismaïl, it happens to be literally true. This
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: 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
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