Category: Films
Hellboy: The Crooked Man review – sputtering mess even a metric ton of makeup can’t conceal
Fans of comic books, 00s horror and Guillermo del Toro will recall the latter’s crack at launching a mass-market franchise with Hellboy in 2004, a [more…]
The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan is mesmerising in sobering addiction drama
The title means an outlying coastal piece of farmland on Orkney; it is not suitable for cultivation, but so continually windswept with Atlantic spray that [more…]
The Teacher review – a Palestinian educator is troubled by his radical past
Here is a drama-thriller from British-Palestinian film-maker Farah Nabulsi, set in the West Bank: a geopolitical vale of angry tears. There is some pretty broad-brush [more…]
Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives review – fresh take on pregnant-woman-in-peril horror
When Maria (Nilam Farooq) shows up 37 weeks pregnant at the attractive but remote country home of her husband Viktor (David Kross), you sense immediately [more…]
Apartment 7A review – Rosemary’s Baby prequel is a vacant rehash
There wasn’t any urgent necessity to this April’s horror prequel The First Omen, a film that took us back to tell a tale we mostly [more…]
Unit 234: The Lock Up review – storage facility holds deadly secrets in fun thriller
Here is a fairly watchable thriller about a fine arts and philosophy graduate called Laurie (Isabelle Fuhrman), who is turning 25 and facing a quarter-life [more…]
Azrael: Angel of Death review – dialogue-free sci-fi horror takes cues from A Quiet Place
Here is a post-apocalyptic feature that works well as an exercise in tension-release horror-movie mechanics and features an admirably expressive, athletic, and entirely wordless lead [more…]
Paul McCartney and Wings: One Hand Clapping review – restored rockumentary is pure pleasure
I’m amazed, and there’s no maybe about it. Paul McCartney and Wings star in this engrossing hour-long documentary (or, if you will, rockumentary) shot on [more…]
Dragonkeeper review – kids’ animation in which a girl must save China’s last fire breathers
Bill Nighy’s distinctive, rather wonderful, Bill Nighy-ness is perfect in so many roles, especially those requiring an expensive lounge suit and a roguish arch of [more…]
The Fall review – startling imagery abounds in Tarsem Singh’s cult Gilliamesque epic
Tarsem Singh’s indulgent epic, produced by Spike Jonze and David Fincher, was little seen on its original release in 2006, and now gets a rerelease [more…]
