Movie Reviews

Dizzying and imaginative absurdism meets profound and heartfelt ode to the family in this utterly charming, joyous and clinically insane crowd pleaser.  

More Raimi than Marvel; more WandaVision than Doctor Strange, Multiverse of Madness is as close to horror as the MCU is likely to get - Updated for 3D IMAX  

Far from the DTV action flick you might expect from the generic title and more a commendable third reunion for Hell or High Water brothers-in-arms Chris Pine and Ben Foster, The Contractor delivers low-key indie thrills.  

Everyone's favourite on-screen nutcase, Nicolas Cage, is so game to be lovingly skewered in this odd movie mash-up. But is the movie weird enough?  

Following creepy success in The Witch and stark madness in The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers's Viking saga is a masterfully crafted, full-throated berserker roar.  

Mark Rylance puts in another reliably terrific show-stopping performance as a simple suit craftsman caught in a bind when his mob-drop shop ends up in the sights of paranoid gangsters.  

Like a loose spy riff on an Agatha Christie mystery, and just as flawed, Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton share a smidge of chemistry but struggle to escape the inevitable.  

With this uneagerly awaited new release of a film from a franchise no-one cared for in the first place, surely there’s something of merit to be found here? Isn’t there?  

Producer Guillermo Del Toro presents a combination of First Nations folklore and modern societal and industrial decay in Scott Cooper’s down-to-earth horror/creature feature.  

Folk horror meets mental illness and parental toxicity in Kate Dolan’s debut, a film which has you questioning whether we need to invent supernatural explanations for horrifying human behaviours.  

Ploughing through the catalogue of incidental Spider-Man characters, Sony offers up a movie about that most necrotic of super-anti-heroes, Dr Michael Morbius... and in keeping with its vampiric themes, it both bites and sucks.  

Despite the Best Actress win for Jessica Chastain, her Tammy Faye’s a whole load of makeup and furious televangelism, with not a great deal to actually say.  

Ironically reflecting his seeming inability to retire from action roles, Neeson plays a secret black ops cleaner with OCD by driving a really loud, distinctive Mustang and locking his door three times.  

Happy Bay Day everybody! And action cinema’s Grandaddy Terrible makes a welcome return with a pleasingly stripped-down action thriller that instantly brings to mind one of the greatest purveyors of the genre…  

Splitting the clearly epic Fortress Saga into a trilogy, this is but the start of a long ride to the end of Willis' career, and - oddly - not the absolute worst DTV feature he's vaguely appeared in.  

Stephen Graham gives a masterful performance in Philip Barantini’s tense, one-cut character portrait of a chef having the worst night of his life which comes to Netflix after a limited theatrical run.  

Blending the body-jumping of Quantum Leap with the amnesiac operative of the Bourne movies, this high octane, high concept Korean thriller is a head-spinning blast.  

Adam Berg's writer/directorial debut launches Noomi Rapace across the ice in a post-apocalyptic thriller that boasts a succession of blisteringly tense action sequences.