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Max is very ‘American’ yet not at all alienating, with a charming and interesting premise. Part of the film’s engaging nature derives from quick and adept character development, but the most appealing...

A.J. Manglehorn has a ridiculous name and a ridiculous obsession with lost-love Clara; like Bellow's Herzog, the ageing recluse has an unfortunate habit of writing never-delivered letters. Thankfully, a...

Questions about its certification aside, writer-director Marielle Heller's Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl succeeds thanks to its honest, intelligent script and a bold, star-making performance...

Hot Pursuit is an inoffensive journey into Hollywood déjà vu; it’s all so familiar. The overall effect is not exactly bad (barring an apparent silly-costume quota) but is definitely bland. The film...

Ethan Hunt: super-spy, quasi-leader of top-secret government agency, and foundation of $2 billion film franchise. The humble 1960s American television show on which the series is based has been left far...

Ethan Hunt has done it again, but better. With a complex plot and credible enemy, Rogue Nation puts Hunt through his paces. Cruise is more than up to the challenge, proving that he is in total control of...

It is hard to argue that Jack Reacher should be given a second chance. This is not because the film doesn’t deserve greater recognition and a wider audience, which it most definitely does; instead, the...

MMA-centric Warrior once perfectly blurred the lines between predictable fluff and hard-hitting emotional heft. Southpaw treads the same path with less punches on target. This is a redemption movie and so...

While the concept is interesting enough, it’s the casting of Schwarzenegger tenderly caring for what is essentially his terminally ill daughter that lifts Maggie above the status of an eyebrow-raising...

Sebastião Salgado and Wim Wenders are perfect together: veterans of photography and filmmaking respectively, and concerned with the political and spiritual - both subjects being treated deeply and...

Ant-Man is the hidden gem of all recent superhero films. Douglas and Rudd battle on a goliath technoscale; facing down corporations, dejected daughters and supervillains alike. This faux-heist escapade...

The Choir is a nicely shot film, featuring an endearing protagonist and suitably goofy (and pleasingly multiracial) young co-stars, exalted by beautiful musical moments. Besides the aforementioned merits...

Following 2010’s mystical Oscar nominee The Secret of Kells, budding animation master Tomm Moore returns to tackle Celtic folklore in Song of the Sea. In this he produces a wonderful film, haunted by...

Moving away from Ted’s tiring and prehistoric gender dynamic (mostly), Ted 2 introduces a more inspiring goal…freedom. Comparing Ted’s plight to slavery is of course ridiculous, and MacFarlane treads...

At first glance, Tell Spring Not To Come This Year feels like more of what we’ve already seen in war documentaries like Sebastian Junger’s Restrepo and Korengal. We see soldiers relaxing in the barracks or...