Sore about stereotypes
The Night Clerk
Starring Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas and John Leguizamo
Rated M
The Night Clerk is a well-acted but flat and cliched drama about Bart...
Blood Vessel a bloody treat
Blood Vessel
Starring Nathan Phillips, Alyssa Sutherland and Alex Cooke
Rated MA15+
Blood Vessel is a chilling Australian horror film that treads familiar monster-feature ground with finesse...
Fatal Attraction knock-off
Fatal Affair
Starring Nia Long and Omar Epps
Rated M
Fatal Affair is a decent thriller with strong performances and atmosphere, but it's preoccupied with build-up over...
The Hunt is on
The Hunt
Starring Betty Gilpin and Hilary Swank
Rated MA15+
Resembling a politically-charged riff on The Most Dangerous Game, The Hunt is a taut, darkly-hilarious horror-thriller about...
The Old Guard a vintage treat
The Old Guard
Starring Charlize Theron, Matthias Schoenaerts and KiKi Layne
Rated MA15+
Based on the comic book series by Greg Rucka, The Old Guard follows a...
A year of torment
365 Days
Starring Anna-Maria Sieklucka and Michele Morrone
Rated R18+
The Fifty Shades series received well-deserved criticism for glamourising emotional abuse, but 365 Days, in which Laura...
Wells would be proud
War of the Worlds
Starring Gabriel Byrne and Léa Drucker
Rated MA15+
War of the Worlds is an eight-part mini-series that reimagines H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi novel...
Had better be The Last Days
The Last Days of American Crime
Starring Édgar Ramírez, Anna Brewster and Michael Pitt
MA15+
The Last Days of American Crime is a shallow and overwhelmingly tedious...
We have Eurovision at home
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams
Rated M
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is an irrepressibly...
Artemis Fowl a big turkey
Artemis Fowl
Starring Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell and Judi Dench
Rated PG
Directed by Kenneth Branagh, Artemis Fowl is a sloppy, poorly-structured film and a terrible adaptation...
A rare good Netflix comedy
The Lovebirds
Starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae
Rated M
Finally, after three weeks, a good comedy.
The Lovebirds is a lightweight but charming crime caper romantic comedy.
After...
Sawmill bloodbath with rickety structure
Earth and Blood
Starring Sami Bouajila, Sofia Lesaffre and Eriq Ebouaney
Rated MA15+
Earth and Blood is a tense but unfocused French thriller in which Saïd (Sami...
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