Reviews

Shrew’s Nest is a shrieking bloody mess of a film that just about clings onto enough sanity to tell a compelling and sinister story. Montse (Gómez) is too afraid to leave her house and when an injured...

This enthrallingly proficient biopic combines scope with style, provoking attention and excitement through gripping drama and the stirring warfare milieu. Technical scenes belie tedium through Tyldum’s...

Dancing Arabs’s greatest strength is the way it recognises and respects the painfully irreconcilable divide between opposing cultures – in this case Israel and Palestine. There is kindness and humanity...

Toying with the opposing forces of magnificence and mediocrity, Dracula Untold has moments of cinematic gold and cliché in abundance. With the former, there's evidence of Shore's debutant nerves. Through...

Death leads to dubious love in this endlessly inventive delight that pays no regard to traditional genre boundaries. Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead send bereaved lead Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) on...

Which of these isn’t uttered during Draft Day? “I dedicated my life to this sport - just like you.” “This city deserves a championship, and I’m the guy to deliver it!” “When I wake up, I...

Wes Ball's accomplished take on the popular book series by James Dashner brings new possibilities to a subgenre that's rapidly becoming more and more derivative as time goes on. Ball’s feature debut with...

Look no further for an illustration of how film can fruitfully articulate a fragmented national psyche. Charlie’s Country conveys a plethora of perspectives with astonishing ambition.  The writers squeeze...

A Girl At My Door lingers in the mind. The film is intelligent and enigmatic as it charts shifting equilibriums, a beautiful landscape and its convincingly flawed inhabitants. The impact is heightened by an...

It's a tired debate but Gone Girl begs the question: is a faithful adaptation the best adaptation? Gillian Flynn's novel is the mystery du jour, a missing person’s case fit for a pessimistic...

The Equalizer is nothing more than a sluggish and disappointing mess. Washington’s poorly-sketched ex-special ops agent juggles with several underdeveloped themes that bar him from any meaningful character...

El Niño possesses all the ingredients for an efficacious and addictive thriller. The eye-catching start - exploiting transit sights and sounds - ratchets up the tension and is followed by some action-packed...

Yann Demange’s feature debut relentlessly shifts from ambient tension to blunt horror time and time again, in what must be 2014’s most flagrant display of up-and-coming British talent. ‘71’s erratic...

Declining to note that honeymooning at an isolated cabin in the woods - “we’re gonna have the whole place to ourselves” - is asking for trouble, Honeymoon soon passes its table-setting cliché and...

As critics map the stars of Cronenberg’s latest, the facial and vocal contortions of Moore’s transformation into the uptalking over-sharer Havana will make her a focal point - but no one in Maps puts a...