Review: Josie
"There's all sorts of stories," goes the opening drawl of Josie, a noir-tinged drama which attempts to justify its slow burn storytelling...
Review: A Wrinkle in Time
There's something irresistibly ingratiating about Ava DuVernay's film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's beloved 1962 classic, A Wrinkle...
Review: Allure
An often unsettling and unrelentingly grim portrait of how the abused becomes the abuser, Allure features a trenchant performance from...
Review: Pacific Rim Uprising
Charm goes a long way, and certainly John Boyega proves his can power Pacific Rim: Uprising, the goofy and serviceably entertaining mess...
Review: Annihilation
"We're all damaged goods here," one character says in Annihilation, the film adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's spare novel that also marks...
Review: Death Wish
If the original 1974 Death Wish didn't pretend to be anything more than a Charles Bronson macho fantasy exploitation flick, its 2018...
Review: Tomb Raider
Fun fact: Alicia Vikander is the second actress to take on the iconic videogame heroine, Lara Croft, within three years after winning her...
Review: Novitiate
"We were women in love," 17-year-old Cathleen says in the opening voiceover of Maggie Betts' engrossing drama, Novitiate, which aims to...
Review: Golden Exits
"People don't really make films about ordinary people who don't do anything," Naomi remarks near the start of Golden Exits. Of course,...
Review: The Outsider
The issue with The Outsider is not to do with Jared Leto, though he is part of it, nor does it have to do with the fact that Leto is...