Rating: 2.0★
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet are, depending on your disposition, either two of European cinema's most uncompromising visionaries or two of its most wilfully alienating formalists. Possibly both. The Franco-German couple worked together from the early 1960s until Huillet's death in 2006, producing a
Rating: 2.0★
There is a certain kind of comedy that exists purely on the strength of one outrageous idea, betting everything on the audience's willingness to go along for the ride regardless of whether the script can keep pace. White Chicks, released in the summer of 2004, is a fairly
Rating: 2.0★
Queens of the Dead arrives in 2025 with a premise that feels, on paper, like it was built in a laboratory to generate goodwill: a zombie outbreak tears through a Brooklyn warehouse party, and a motley crew of drag queens, club kids and frenemies have to pool their very particular
Rating: 2.0★
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead arrives with a premise that feels tailor-made for the current cultural moment. Japan has long grappled, both in fiction and in daily life, with the phenomenon of karoshi, the concept of death by overwork, and the broader anxiety around salaryman culture, where
Rating: 2.0★
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes with watching a superhero sequel that has clearly been designed by a committee rather than a filmmaker. Spider-Man: Far From Home managed to sidestep that particular pitfall with some style, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse blew the doors
Rating: 2.0★
By the early 1990s, the RoboCop franchise had already begun to show the strain that comes with any Hollywood property asked to keep producing sequels beyond its natural lifespan. The original 1987 film, directed by Paul Verhoeven, was a genuinely sharp piece of work: a satirical, R-rated skewering of
Rating: 2.0★
Video game adaptations have had a famously troubled relationship with cinema, and Uncharted arrives as one of the most anticipated, and most protracted, attempts to buck that trend. The game series, developed by Naughty Dog and first released by Sony in 2007, spent the better part of two decades building
Rating: 2.0★
Aki Kaurismäki has spent the better part of four decades building one of world cinema's most recognisable signatures: deadpan working-class characters, colour-saturated interiors that feel frozen in some indeterminate post-war decade, and a studied economy of dialogue that his admirers read as poetic restraint. The
Rating: 2.0★
Pokémon has been a cultural institution for the better part of three decades now. What began in 1996 as a pair of Game Boy role-playing games from Nintendo and Game Freak, built around the simple but irresistible idea of collecting and battling pocket monsters, became one of the most
![[REC]² (2009)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/4JG5WKfIGD6r7hdbqJVr2WKIxEe.jpg)
Rating: 2.0★
When [REC] arrived in 2007, it hit British horror audiences like a freight train. Directed by the Barcelona-based partnership of Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró, the original film took the found-footage format, by then already well worn after a decade of Blair Witch imitators, and gave it a
Rating: 2.0★
Arab cinema covers an enormous range of tones and registers, from the unflinching social realism of Capernaum (2018) to lighter, crowd-pleasing fare aimed squarely at regional multiplex audiences. Honeymoonish (2024) plants itself firmly in the latter camp: a Kuwait-Lebanon co-production that pitches itself as a breezy opposites-
Rating: 2.0★
The Pokémon franchise has been producing theatrical films since 1998, and at this point the formula is about as well-worn as an old pair of trainers. What began with the genuinely affecting Pokémon: The First Movie has expanded into a long-running series of largely standalone adventures, each built
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