Rating: 3.0★
You know the feeling. It's a lazy Sunday afternoon, you're half-awake on the sofa, and you flick through the channels until you land on something that demands absolutely nothing from you: a perfectly harmless, aggressively middle-of-the-road war picture playing out in faded
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching this film where you have to stop and remind yourself that what you're seeing is not fiction. An entire community on a tiny island in Vanuatu, genuinely, fervently waiting for a white American soldier called John Frum to descend from the sky
Rating: 3.0★
I will be the first to admit that my viewing habits can lead me down some genuinely strange rabbit holes, and The Golden Spurtle is about as deep into the rabbit hole as I have ever gone. A documentary about the World Porridge Championships. I watched it. I watched all
Rating: 3.0★
Sometimes the backstory sells a film harder than the film can sell itself. She's Gotta Have It arrives wrapped in one of indie cinema's great origin stories: Spike Lee, fresh out of film school, scrapes together $175,000, shoots something raw and alive and entirely his
Rating: 3.0★
Jean Genet is best known to most people as a novelist and playwright, the author of works like Our Lady of the Flowers and The Maids, a writer whose entire creative life was shaped by time spent on the margins of French society, including real spells in prison. Un Chant
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching Garrett Bradley's America where you stop trying to work out exactly what you're looking at, and just let it wash over you. That surrender is, I think, exactly what Bradley is after. Shot in gorgeous, high-contrast black-and-white,
Rating: 3.0★
There is a very specific, unapologetically loud energy to the comedy of the early 2000s, and Keenen Ivory Wayans's Scary Movie kicks the door off its hinges right from the opening frames. It is crass, it is relentless, and it has absolutely no interest in your good taste.
Rating: 3.0★
If you've ever stumbled across Who Killed Captain Alex? and found yourself completely won over by the sheer, unbridled enthusiasm of Wakaliwood cinema, then Jean-Pierre Bekolo's 1996 Cameroonian/Zimbabwean oddity Aristotle's Plot is going to feel like a surprisingly polished cousin of that
Rating: 3.0★
There's a specific kind of patience required to sit through a truly slow-burning character study, and Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's Bulgarian drama The Lesson certainly tests it. But honestly, the deliberate pacing isn't the film's biggest flaw. The real tension
Rating: 3.0★
Ryan Coogler's Black Panther put me in a genuine quandary, and I've been trying to unpick exactly why ever since. Because on paper, this is everything I should want from a superhero film. Strong performances, real directorial ambition, a cultural significance that's impossible to
Rating: 3.0★
There are few cinematic experiences as universally scarring as sitting down with a bucket of popcorn, only to have your childhood innocence absolutely shattered by a woodland creature. I still remember the collective, stunned silence in the room the first time I watched Bambi. Not a word. Not a sound.
Rating: 3.0★
By the time the first skiff hits the water in Cutter Hodierne's drama, I was already fighting off a severe case of déjà vu. This is roughly the fourth film I've sat through that attempts to tackle the Somali piracy phenomenon, and while the geopolitical reality
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