Reviews

From the creators of Outnumbered comes this sweet but ultimately flawed comedy about a dysfunctional family who embark on an unexpectedly eventful holiday to Scotland. Viewers expecting an unchallenging...

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Sex and love as toxic to one another - such is the bizarre dichotomy put forth by The Duke of Burgundy. Peter Strickland’s latest in a string of all-enveloping exploitation subgenres meticulously burrows...

Camp X-Ray establishes its identity with a vividly kinetic start, adeptly unveiling the Guantanamo Bay locale where soldiers “defend freedom”. The film intrigues with its subtlety and style, conveying...

Ah, the Vegas Bachelor Party! It’s been too long. A whole year in fact. Fortunately little has changed. Except now the women have as much fun as the men - not those darn mother-in-laws though, eh? - and...

Even for the occasional horror fan, The Babadook feels far too full of the usual clichés: a troubled child, a distressed (bereaved) mother and - what’s that? A haunted house? Writer and director Jennifer...

Scherfig balances An Education’s idealisation of Oxford University with this saga of undergraduate decadence and debauchery. The first act, particularly the prologue, verges into seemingly unintentional...

Go into A Most Wanted Man expecting the familiar tone and pace of fellow John le Carré adaptation Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and you won’t be disappointed. Corbijn’s direction is a little more gruff and...

We thought we would try something a bit different this time.  So today we are going to giving you our analysis of 'The Kiss' from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. And oh, will you look at that!  We've posted a...

Based on Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel, The Giver begins promisingly before sinking into the depths of mediocrity. The film is further spoiled by bad timing as it awkwardly follows the recent raft of newer teen...

Life of Crime is fine. Characters are played gamely; costumes are pleasingly authentic; the story... proceeds. Really, this isn’t one for superlative adjectives. Fleetingly snappy - the minimum...

Joffe’s adaptation retains the premise of Watson’s novel yet recalibrates elements of the plot to keep even those who’ve read it (all four million of them) on the edge of their seats. One clever...

Annie had it all: two great kids, a loving marriage with radio producer husband Jay and a financially successful blog (?). Today though, her life’s about to turn upside down! After handing out half a...

Heavily infused with music and relying on a flashback format, Forman’s novel seems ideal for the audio-visual medium of film. Yet Cutler’s unenergetic debut betrays the influence of the Nicholas...

Overly reliant on the undoubted chemistry between its two leads, Let’s Be Cops joins a pantheon of inoffensive, yet instantly forgettable, summer comedies. Ryan (Johnson) and Justin (Wayans Jr.) are two...