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3/5
Jerry Maguire (1996) Adrian Martin There are some transparently contrived bits in this film to boost its "feel-good" quotient, but the parts that make a strong impression are all the goofy, idiosyncratic, charmingly satirical elements that Crowe incorporates so well.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Lawrie Zion A delicious fantasy.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Tom Ryan Ripe with the spirited fun, imagination and magic of Roald Dahl's classic fantasy.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
undertone (2025) Jake Wilson Perhaps the raw material being remixed is a little too familiar. Still, one question lingers: would the movie be scarier had Tuason nixed the visuals and stuck with his original plan of telling the story as a mock podcast, otherwise known as a radio play?
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
All That's Left of You (2025) Sandra Hall Dabis’ screenplay is episodic but it gathers power as it goes. She doesn’t believe in shorthand. Nor does she hold back in portraying the tragic consequences of the Palestinians’ expulsion from their homes.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Deb (2024) Sandra Hall It’s a wonderful mix of the raucous and the heartfelt and charges along at an exhilarating pace, punctuated by a series of setbacks and misunderstandings which are predictable but persuasive.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Adrian Martin It is a stirring and magical tale.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor/Victoria (1982) Neil Jillett Shows frayed signs of being made in a rush and without much thought.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Grease 2 (1982) Neil Jillett The plot is a jumble of motorcycle stunts, concerts and tired jokes.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
On Moonlight Bay (1951) Age Staff It is endurable with some old tunes and some new ones providing a pleasant musical commentary.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel (2026) Craig Mathieson The formative years – we’re talking the 1980s – of a band now in its institutional twilight provides a portrait of creativity that comes with palpable energy and tragic loss.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Emmanuelle (1974) Colin Bennett It is only a glorified skin-flick, soft-core porn with an arty gloss and pretensions.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Towering Inferno (1974) Colin Bennett It will certainly be a while before I enter a skyscraper lift again, or open an emergency exit door without apprehension of a scorching.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Jake Wilson Jarmusch may never have sold out in the sense of going to work for a major Hollywood studio, but the Tom Waits character here, an old hipster not quite as unworldly as he looks, may be the most honest self-portrait this filmmaker has given us yet.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The President's Cake (2025) Sandra Hall It’s certainly not a tragedy yet Hadi is too much of a realist to deliver a happy ending and he finishes on a note of sadness. But you’re still left with great faith in Lamia and Saeed’s ability to make their way in the world, no matter what lies ahead.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Drama (2026) Sandra Hall It all confirms Borgli’s credentials as a skilled satirist as well as showing that he’s a master when it comes to fomenting suspense. His ending lives up to your expectations and your forebodings.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Jake Wilson I can accept Disney princesses as a convention, but I’m starting to find the royalist propaganda scattered through the Super Mario cinematic universe a little grating.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Pal Joey (1957) Age Staff The film version lacks the stark drama of the original production, "cleans up" the story, and drops some of the more "earthy" songs in favor of Rodgers-Hart evergreens...
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Craig Mathieson This feature-length continuation of the historical crime drama looks marvellous...But the storytelling from creator Steven Knight is inconsistent, and it adds little to where the show finished in 2022 after six bloody seasons
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Color Theories by Julio Torres (2026) Craig Mathieson It’s an amusing, insightful performance, even when he’s falling out with his animatronic assistant, and there’s nothing inherently difficult in Torres’ performance style. This non-conformist is welcoming.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) Colin Bennett The good news is that this is a very funny film indeed.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) Sandra Hall I doubt that Enid Blyton ever visualised a future in which children scorned books in favour of games and stories which played out on portable screens. But that’s what’s happening in the new film of Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
I Swear (2025) Jake Wilson ...[Robert Aramayo] and newcomer Scott Ellis Watson, who plays the young Davidson, have worked hard between them to make the John of the film a fully-fledged character rather than defining him by his tics.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Hoppers (2026) Sandra Hall [The film's] serious side is so well camouflaged by the happy absurdities flitting around on its surface that it could be selling snake oil and you wouldn’t mind.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Craig Mathieson It’s kind of a mess, but it’s specifically Verbinski’s mess and that makes for a propulsively chaotic ride.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Mike Daly Special effects by Robin Bottin make this film more convincing than the usual drive-in fodder but the corny plot and dialogue do their best to drag it down.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace (2026) Craig Mathieson The breakthrough praise for American comic Chris Fleming has been building these last few months – “a marvel to behold, a true artist,” declared Marc Maron – and it rightly peaks with this stand-up special, which captures Fleming at his absurdist best.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
War Machine (2026) Craig Mathieson It's a science-fiction survival film – the Ranger candidates are carrying blanks – with trace elements of Transformers, Battleship, and Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Somewhat derivative, but modestly enjoyable.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Ghost Elephants (2025) Craig Mathieson Cue Herzog’s unmistakable narrator’s voice, as the search unfolds with – it must be said – less personal risk and more thoughtful processes than the usual Herzog protagonist.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Goodfellas (1990) Jim Murphy It is a fascinating character study, brilliantly acted by all concerned and directed with astonishing virtuosity by Scorsese.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Craig Mathieson Without being forensic, Theroux establishes the monetary gains that underpin the constant bluster about passing on “the cheat code”. And he shows their fan bases, whether excitable boys or solemn adult acolytes, in telling street scenes.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Waiting for Guffman (1996) Barbara Creed The film weaves much of its humor around events backstage and offstage, as well as through the antics of its bizarre crew.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Neil Jillett The few touches of reasonably incisive comedy are overwhelmed by Irvin Kershner's noisy and confused style of directing.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Jim Murphy When Robocop engages in a protracted stop-motion-animation battle with a rival cyborg... it is like watching a dinosaur and pterodactyl scrapping in a Ray Harryhausen flick of the '60s -- and about as interesting.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Jake Wilson I found the use of raw reality within what amounts to a traditional suspense framework not so much offensive as jarringly misjudged, rendering the craft of Ben Hania and her team beside the point (this includes the actors, however talented they might be).
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Moment (2026) Sandra Hall The best lines are swamped by background noise and overlapping dialogue and the action has a zigzagging trajectory without rhythm or variations in mood.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Jake Wilson In principle, the Bride is a single individual, in contrast to Frank, who was assembled from bits and pieces of multiple corpses. But as a fictional creation, she never adds up to a cohesive whole, any more than does the movie bearing her name.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Sandra Hall Powell makes a likeable lead and the action sequences are reasonably inventive with some adroit bits of choreography, but none of this outweigh the plot’s fundamental flaws.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
In the Blink of an Eye (2026) Craig Mathieson Stanton’s long-delayed film is looking to capture the fragile wonder of life, but it can be po-faced, lacking detail and occasionally daft.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) Colin Bennett Whether or not the mystery has any historical value, the film version of it is never dull.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Neil Jillett The script is often very funny, usually inventive and always hard-driving.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Colin Bennett The whole thing could be straight from the pages of the "New Yorker" and Miss Hepburn does full justice to its slightly cockeyed lyricism.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Bluff (2026) Craig Mathieson The Bluff has rough edges, but it’s never workmanlike.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Adrian Martin The Jane Austen revival seems to have half the world cheering and the other half groaning... The screen version of Sense and Sensibility, however, suggests that 1996's Austen mania indeed holds some modest pleasure.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) Adrian Martin It peddles an ancient misogynist myth that men are the seductive bearers of "the word", and women are swooning receptacles of these magic spells without irony or cleverness. And the film's ceaseless spectacle of proletarian obsequiousness is unbearable.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
THX 1138 (1971) Colin Bennett It seems cruel to say it, but the most exciting bit is not a part of the film at all but a prologue extracted from the Buck Rogers serial.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty in Pink (1986) Neil Jillett The film has an old-fashioned decency and humanity that are almost charming.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Neil Jillett Like many sequels, 'Bride of Re-Animator' is not a patch on the original.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) Adrian Martin Mostly, as in all Muppet movies, the infectious mood derives from the characters' insanity -- ever-ready to sing and dance even when about to be boiled or quartered (no one ever is, of course).
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Vanishing Point (1971) Colin Bennett Vanishing Point's vrroom-vrroom footage is gripping; its message and inevitable finale left me cold.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
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