Crime cinema, at its best, holds a mirror to power, loyalty and moral collapse in ways few other genres can. From the family dynasties of The Godfather to the street-level hustle of GoodFellas, it has produced some of the most richly observed characters in film history. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 3.5★
Being half Romani, I came to Time of the Gypsies carrying a particular kind of curiosity. I knew the Romani experience depicted here, in what was then Yugoslavia, would be worlds away from anything I grew up with in the UK. What I didn't quite expect was how
Rating: 3.5★
There is a haunting beauty to the American Midwest that few filmmakers have ever captured quite like Terrence Malick. His 1973 debut, Badlands, is one of those films you feel as much as you watch. It drifts over you like heat rising off a sun-baked road, gorgeous and unsettling
Rating: 3.5★
Jackie Chan is genuinely one of the most underrated actors working in cinema, and I'll keep saying it until more people actually believe me. We get so caught up in the sheer, unadulterated spectacle of his physical comedy that we forget he's actually a brilliant, expressive
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in It Was Just an Accident where you catch yourself laughing, and then almost immediately feel guilty for it. That tonal shift, from dry, deadpan comedy to something far darker and more suffocating, is exactly what Jafar Panahi pulls off in his 2025 film,
Rating: 3.0★
Batman Forever is a weird one. There's no getting around it. Joel Schumacher's 1995 outing represents such a massive tonal departure from the brooding, gothic pictures Tim Burton gave us that you almost feel like you've wandered into a completely different franchise. Gone is
Rating: 1.5★
Sometimes a film's premise does all the heavy lifting and the film itself does almost none. That's the frustrating situation with Prasanna Vithanage's Paradise, a Sri Lankan drama that arrives with what sounds like a genuinely compelling idea and then spends its entire runtime
Rating: 4.0★
Walter Hill doesn't waste your time. That's the first thing you notice watching Hard Times, his 1975 debut feature, and it's a quality that separates him from most filmmakers working then or now. No fussy preamble, no overly explained backstory, no hand-holding. A
Rating: 3.5★
Let's get the best bit out of the way first: Batman (1989) arguably has the greatest film poster of all time. That simple, striking yellow and black bat logo is so infinitely cool it practically sells the entire movie before you've even pressed play. No tagline,
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment in Elephant where everything changes. You've spent the best part of half an hour just watching teenagers go about their day. Someone's late for school. Someone else is taking photographs. The rhythms are slow, unhurried, almost meditative. And then a character
Rating: 3.5★
Roger Ebert called Z his favourite film of 1969. It made history as the first film ever nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. It sits near the top of Letterboxd's all-time charts and is routinely name-checked whenever anyone
Rating: 3.0★
Here's the thing about Starsky & Hutch: it was never going to be a surprise. The moment you clock that Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are your leads, you already know exactly the film you're walking into. And look, I don't mean that as
Rating: 3.5★
There's a shot early in A Bittersweet Life where the camera simply holds on the protagonist, standing in the rain outside a restaurant, suit immaculate, face unreadable. Nothing is said. Nothing needs to be. Kim Jee-woon is already telling you everything about this man, his world, and
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