Rating: 3.5★
Let me be straight with you: the critics have absolutely savaged this film, and I understand why. On paper, Mortal Kombat II is a bloated, narratively incoherent action film that introduces too many characters, sidelines its most iconic ones, and wastes genuine dramatic potential on clumsy comic relief. All of
Rating: 3.5★
Ten days. Think about that for a second. Just ten days after East Timor gained its independence from Portugal in 1975, Indonesia moved in and began over two decades of brutal occupation. It's one of those historical facts that stops you cold, and it's one that
Rating: 3.5★
I still remember the sheer surprise of John Wick dropping out of nowhere in 2014. There was no real warning, no relentless marketing campaign hammering you into submission. It just arrived, and within about fifteen minutes I was completely hooked. The reason is pretty simple: it didn't pretend
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment in Raj Patel and Zak Piper's documentary where you see it written all over the faces of the Malawian delegates: a quiet, devastating shock. They've travelled from one of the poorest nations on earth to the supposed richest country in the
Rating: 3.5★
When you buy a ticket for a Godzilla picture, you already know exactly what you're getting. You're there for the roaring, the stomping, and the spectacular destruction of Japanese infrastructure. The question is never really will the monster show up. It's whether anyone bothered
Rating: 3.5★
You don't just watch Midsommar. You get bludgeoned by it. From the very first frames, Ari Aster is coming for your senses with a relentless, sun-drenched assault that refuses to let you look away, even when every instinct is telling you to. And it starts with something
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★
What does it look like when children rewrite their own pain? That question sits at the beating heart of Liyana, and it's the reason this film has stayed with me in a way I didn't entirely expect. There is something genuinely disarming about watching a documentary
Rating: 3.5★
It's genuinely rare to sit down with a piece of cinema that treats its native folklore with this level of unapologetic, mystical fidelity. Souleymane Cissé's Yeelen doesn't just borrow from Bambara mythology and dress it up for outside consumption. It pulls you entirely into
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★
That artillery. Good grief, that artillery. Within the first few minutes of Edward Berger's 2022 adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, the sound design alone is doing something almost physical to you. It doesn't rumble so much as detonate somewhere behind your eyes, and
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