Reviews

Kevin Costner is Ethan Renner. Fresh from washing his mouth with gravel and his brain with cancer, he must injure and kill anyone he comes across to satisfy the wishes of his handler, Amber Heard… ... An...

It's no coincidence that Daniel Clowes' seminal work Ghost World surfaces throughout Frauke Finsterwalder's multifaceted directorial debut. In taking the highly esteemed graphic novel's unique brand of...

It would be easy for The Fault in Our Stars to lapse into the kind of sentimental schmaltz which so often handicaps films aimed squarely at the teen audience. Instead, the story of two teenagers who fall in...

Proof that the costume drama can go beyond chocolate-box sweet and address issues greater than its genre, Belle is a sumptuous love letter to the classic period film that nevertheless asks you to stop and...

Don't be fooled by its lo-fi roots – a single-setting chamber horror with a haunted rococo mirror as the villain of the piece – Mike Flanagan's Oculus does more to a familiar premise than most...

We are welcomed by a characteristically grumpy Colin Firth and an unusually mumsy Reese Witherspoon to Devil’s Knot, a fascinating if ultimately flaccid true-crime drama. The performances of the three boys...

In Chef, a passion project, writer-director Jon Favreau serves up a tasty, if predictable, dish that should satisfy most cinematic palates. He has high-quality ingredients: an appetizing cast, including...

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's visually stunning adaptation of Reif Larsen's similarly-titled novel boasts impressive performances and well-crafted design, but ultimately forgets the importance of thematic integration -...

22 Jump Street is belly-aching, mickey-taking, cinema-shaking summer comedy at its very best. Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s follow up to their 2012 reboot does not shy away from its bigger sequel status....

Jolie is sublime. She gives the movie its verve and purpose yet no one else seemed to get the memo. Maleficent was a tremendous character but all that made her so irresistible has been removed and...

Edge of Tomorrow exploits its premise for dramatic and comic effect, but its repetitious scenes of death/rebirth ruin the sense of danger and tension; at times it’s like watching someone else play a video...

Welcome to Blended, brought to you by the South African Tourist Board. On your left is a lumbering performance from Drew Barrymore, and on your right is a clunky and drawn-out plot. At least South Africa looks...

Hossein Amini's pleasing adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name falls victim to its meagre 12A rating; often willing to broach the mature themes demanded of it, yet never fully...

In Secret feels like a film that has sat in stasis, waiting - to get made, for its cast to stabilise, for its leads to maybe even make it big. In a claustrophobic, stagey Paris primarily existing within a...

Empire. X-Men. 25 covers. 1 issue. It was more worrying than exciting. How on earth would Singer combine two franchises into one coherent film? Answer: very, very well. The cast serve the story, not their...