Reviews

The hardest punch in Ip Man 3 is the sucker on an audience that was promised Mike Tyson and Bruce Lee. Instead, more attention is given to the relationship between Ip Man and his wife Wing-sing. Some may feel...

Donaghue’s adaptation of her own novel translates the vastly distinct sections of Room equally skilfully, and treats the recoveries of both Jack and Ma with nuance. It’s Jack’s charming perspective...

Born from what's now becoming infamous as one of the most demanding shoots of all time, masterful filmmaker Iñárritu drags his camera through the frozen upper midwest and, with it, the shredded nerves...

Freud theorised that every son would kill his father, but what happens when the father is already dead? For the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed, the answer is simple: fight his name. Ryan Coogler, an...

Welcome to the Bolshoi Ballet, Russia’s number-two export after the AK-47. That’s the bold opening to Bolshoi Babylon, which manages to mix bravery and banality in the following 80 minutes. An...

If you thought audiences had seen everything Jackie Chan has to offer on screen, you thought wrong. This dazzling war epic sees Chan team up with John Cusack in the fight against Adrien Brody’s Roman...

In Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan, Vincent Cassel reminds us why he’s one of France’s greatest actors. He’s gained a reputation for playing brash, violent psychopaths, but Gregori - the father figure of an...

Ever the alchemist, Quentin Tarantino remains obsessed with transfiguring a mélange of homages into filmic gold. But the director’s eighth yarn seemingly shares most of its genetics with an Agatha...

After a colourful introduction to Hollywood with high profile bust-ups on previous sets, David O. Russell has developed into one of the most dependable and Oscar-friendly directors on the...

We’ve come a long way since the days of Lili Elbe and Gerde Wegener. Transgender issues that made chaos of their lives now have mainstream acceptance, but Hooper’s direction is refreshingly frank about how...

Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea is nothing that we haven’t seen before, least of all from the man himself – moral characters, personality clashes, a dramatic score and attempts to survive the...

Sisters is no Trainwreck, but it’s an absolute train wreck. That poor excuse for wordplay is funnier than any joke in this so-called comedy, which for half of its runtime resembles a Katy Perry video that...

Some things in life remain constant; they might not whisper in our ears day and night, but their fragments remain scattered inside us, under the crust and dust, waiting for a spark to fuse them back...

With neither the anticipation of The Hateful Eight nor the veneration of The Magnificent Seven, in rides The Ridiculous 6. The potential freedoms of a direct-to-Netflix deal seem to have been ignored by...

Grandma is a film with a lot of ambition; with its strong female characters and name-dropping of classic feminist texts, it tries very hard to be clever and spunky. It does have its moments: Lily Tomlin is...