Reviews

Originally filmed from a script called The Cellar, 10 Cloverfield Lane's title actually does it a disservice. This ‘spiritual successor’ is a completely different beast to Matt Reeves' 2008 viral...

High-Rise is quite the experience: weird, twisted, debauched – and sometimes downright confusing in its meanderings between multiple characters and bizarre scenarios.  The claustrophobic atmosphere of the...

We’re no stranger to the religious extremism that plagues Pakistan, but Among the Believers succeeds in efficiently cutting through any confusion we may have around what the ‘Red Mosque’ stands...

Allegiant obeys the seemingly compulsory rule of hacking YA denouements in two. The action’s rather thinly-stretched and uneven, with repetitive stricken-faced arguments between the faction(less) leaders...

The silence and sprawling landscapes in Magnus Von Horn’s debut feature make for a fairly interesting dissection of what happens after an event, rather than the event itself. Examining masculinity and...

Marguerite is a true comedy, one with emotional downbeats which match the high notes in strength and imbued with that unique French quality, the je ne sais quoi. Frot delivers a pitch-perfect performance as...

Alfred Hitchcock once said "to make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script." Who would've thought Kung Fu Panda 3 could embody this truism. Taking a markedly different...

The Ones Below takes a universal concept (pregnancy) and examines the baser human instincts involved in the potentially claustrophobic - and competitive - environment of new neighbours both expecting at the...

Charlie Kaufman's brilliance lies in his careful depictions of inertia and mundanity; his previous directing outing, Synecdoche, New York, piled such boredom up to its existential breaking-point with...

A welcome period setting - almost legitimizing the horror aspects for anyone not keen on the genre - allows The Witch to add gravitas to its story through the use of genuine 1600s New England records of...

The uproarious and star-studded Hail Caesar! demonstrates the Coens on fine form indeed – whilst not quite up to the standard of their very best, this spiritual successor to Barton Fink sits very comfortably...

There’s a moment about halfway through London Has Fallen when Gerard Butler’s gruff Secret Service bodyguard advises the bad guys to “go back to Fuckheadistan”. It’s hard to decide what’s more...

Hitchcock/Truffaut is a gentle but revealing documentary, 50 years on from the exhaustive interviews conducted by François Truffaut. Concentrating on re-evaluating Hitchcock’s work and the context...

Truth makes for well-rounded characters. The constantly impressive Blanchett is maverick news producer Mapes, with the depressingly radical support of her ‘house-husband’ (a sincere Hickey), and further...

There’s nothing original under the sun, it is said, and King Jack will certainly feel familiar to many. Felix Thompson’s picaresque tale of two boys in smalltown America can trace its ancestry right back...