Rating: 2.5★
For just over seventy minutes, a calm, unhurried voice recites the tangled affairs of Germany's post-war industrial dynasties: the bankruptcies, the frauds, the convenient deaths, the dynastic feuds. Over the top of it runs a stream of images that, as far as I could ever tell, has
Rating: 2.5★
There are films you admire and films you enjoy, and sometimes those two categories barely overlap. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within sits squarely in the first group. I can watch it and feel genuine awe at what they pulled off technically, and then sit back at the end feeling oddly
Rating: 2.5★
There are films you respect without ever really feeling, and Distant Voices, Still Lives is one of them. I can see exactly why it is held in such high regard, can feel the devotion and the pain baked into every frame, and still come away from it strangely untouched. That
Rating: 2.5★
There is a particular horror in hearing mass death described as a job well done. Operation Dominic is essentially an hour of exactly that, and the discomfort never really lets up, even when you know going in what you are dealing with. This is not a documentary in any ordinary
Rating: 2.5★
There is a moment in this film that I keep turning over in my mind. A young man lifts his mother, frail and fading, and carries her out into the landscape she has always loved, giving her one last look at the world she is about to leave. On paper,
Rating: 2.5★
I came to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang blind, as I like to, having spotted it on the "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They" list of the century's best films. For a while, I genuinely thought I understood the fuss. It opens strongly. I warmed to
Country United States Of America
There's a really compelling film buried somewhere inside The Hunt, and the frustrating thing is you can see it trying to claw its way out. The premise is genuinely sharp: a group of strangers wake up in a field and quickly realise they're being hunted for
Rating: 2.5★
Let me be straight with you: I kept having to remind myself, the whole way through Rags, to judge it for what it actually is rather than what I might want it to be. And what it is, plainly, is a straight-to-television teen musical. A modern, gender-flipped
Rating: 2.5★
You could be forgiven, watching The Arbor, for not quite knowing what it is you are looking at. There are actors, clearly performing scenes, and yet it plainly isn't fiction. So is it a documentary, a mockumentary, something else again? The answer, it turns out, is a clever
Rating: 2.5★
If you've seen Ari Aster's Midsommar, you've already met the ghost of Picnic at Hanging Rock, whether you realised it or not. Peter Weir's 1975 film, one of the most revered things Australian cinema has produced, is the clear ancestor of that
Rating: 2.5★
There is a version of Entergalactic that works brilliantly, and you can almost see it from where the actual film is sitting. It is there in the colour palette, in the way a single frame freezes into something you would happily hang on a wall, in the deep, unhurried groove
Rating: 2.5★
Every so often a film comes along that dares you to describe it with a straight face. The Boxer's Omen is firmly one of them. Try explaining it to someone at a party and watch their expression shift from polite interest to genuine concern for your wellbeing. A
Film images and data courtesy of TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
The best new reviews, a buried gem with where to watch it, and where the every-country challenge is up to. Free, no spam.
Subscribe free