Cinema in the 2020s has been defined by disruption: streaming upended theatrical habits, the pandemic forced a rethink of what a film release even means, and audiences have increasingly embraced subtitled films like How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies alongside big animation and documentary work. Macca's reviews from the decade reflect that breadth. Browse what he's made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
February 1939 marked one of the most desperate mass movements of people in modern European history. As Franco's Nationalist forces closed in on the last Republican strongholds in Catalonia, somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 Spanish civilians and soldiers crossed the Pyrenees into France in a matter
Rating: 2.0★
The zombie film has always been something of a canvas for social commentary, from George Romero's consumerist malls to the viral-panic anxieties that coursed through the early 2000s wave of fast-infected pictures. By 2025, the genre has been thoroughly charted: audiences know the beats, the archetypes,
Rating: 2.5★
When Disney announced that The Mandalorian would be making the leap from Disney+ to the big screen, the reaction was roughly split between cautious optimism and weary scepticism. The series had been a genuine bright spot in the post-Rise of Skywalker wilderness, winning over audiences with its stripped-back,
Rating: 3.5★
The title alone tells you something about the world this film inhabits. "No Dogs or Italians Allowed" refers to the kind of signs that reportedly appeared outside lodgings and workplaces in early twentieth-century France, a blunt shorthand for the discrimination faced by the waves of Italian labourers
Genre Animation
★★★ — Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025)
Genre Animation
★★★ — Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (2024)
Genre Science Fiction
★★½ — The Long Walk (2025)
Genre Animation
★★★½ — Americana (2023)
Genre Action
★★★½ — Hulk Hogan: Real American (2026)
Genre Horror
★★★ — The Substance (2024)
Genre Action
★★½ — Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Genre Documentary
Ocean with David Attenborough (2025)
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