Reviews

If there’s one thing Office Christmas Party is, it’s festive. But not in a fuzzy, feel-good sort of a way. In a Bad Santa sort of way. The film is definitely set during the holiday season, and there’s...

Snowden, Oliver Stone’s latest big ol’ Hollywood release, tells the story of Edward Snowden, the CIA whistleblower who released hundreds of NSA documents to the public in 2013, revealing that the American...

1. Jimmy Kimmel is komming to host The Oscars Mr. Jimmy Kimmel is our host for the 2017 Academy Awards. Honestly though, this is not an announcement to overwhelm us with feelings of any kind; Kimmel is a...

There’s no doubt that The Birth of a Nation is a hard watch. Nate Parker directs and stars as historical figure Nat Turner, a preacher and slave rebellion leader, beginning the film with a slow but...

It's incredible that Clint Eastwood can make one of his best films so late into his career and so soon after one of his worst, American Sniper. Both films demonstrate his uncanny ability to create and...

Move over John Hughes – Kelly Fremon Craig is in the house. And she’s just penned AND directed one of the best coming-of-age films of 2016. But while relative newcomer Craig’s work is a delight to...

Disney have managed to weave a gorgeous, rich tapestry when it comes to Moana. Everything looks and sounds glorious; the colours are bright and the characters are ones you genuinely invest in. Moana (newcomer...

Miles Teller is on the road to redemption. As the electric buzz of Whiplash finally calms, and bleary eyes begin to focus upon Teller the actor, there’s an immediate need for him to step up. Following...

Warm, heartfelt, and unpretentious, Jim Jarmusch's latest is an absolute delight. Paterson (Adam Driver, dependably excellent as a gentle bus driver/poet with great depth) and Laura (Golshifteh...

Subterfuge and seduction are a hair’s width apart in this tense thriller from veteran director Robert Zemeckis. As first collaborating field agents, and then lovers, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard...

United States of Love is a deeply uncomfortable and troubling film. Arguably it’s deliberately designed to be so through apt framing that emphasises the voyeuristic nature of cinema; female characters are...

In many ways Divines feels like an amalgamation of all the socially conscious European films of the last decade. There is the French estate setting of Dheepan, the sexual exploitation and feminist rebellion of...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is surely one of the most hotly anticipated films of 2016, so getting right to the (hor)crux of the matter: it is suitably magical. Affable magizoologist and...

Let's start with an inexplicable detail from True Memoirs of an International Assassin: the titular novel is published as an e-book but only ever shown printed out. That's the kind of sense and thoughtfulness...

History has its headlines, but also its page sixes. The Innocents, in following a group of Polish nuns immediately after WWII, is a sharp and sad examination of forgotten tales. Russians have settled in...