SICARIO (2015)
[usr 4.5] Do you like your meticulously-paced and superbly-shot action movies with a side order of bleak nihilism? You’re in luck: Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario...
THE MARTIAN (2015)
[usr 5.0] If you’re going to entrust any director with the task of delivering a gripping film about loneliness in the vast emptiness of...
BROOKLYN (2015)
[usr 2.0] Brooklyn is a period drama adapted from Colm Tóibín’s novel of the same name that follows Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young...
Trailer: POINT BREAK (2015)
People always have the same conversation whenever a beloved film or cult hit gets remade: why redo something that wasn’t bad to begin with? It’s a...
EVEREST (2015)
[usr 4.0] When a film’s based on a true story, it often means it’s telling such an incredible story that it’s hard to believe...
RICKI AND THE FLASH (2015)
[usr 3.5] I intended to begin this review by commenting on how infrequently Jonathan Demme’s in the director’s chair these days, but a quick...
THE MESSENGER (2015)
[usr 4.0] Labels can be a tricky thing for a film to come lumbered with. Genre is an ever-flexible thing and films don’t always fall...
MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT (2014)
[usr 2.5] “Gotta give the crowd what they want, baby,” a character says early on in Monsters: Dark Continent, as a group of gamblers...
AMERICAN ULTRA (2015)
[usr 3.5] Weird movies deserve to be celebrated, and American Ultra is just about the weirdest movie to arrive in cinemas in recent times....
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD (2015)
[usr 4.5] When you think of environmental activism, Greenpeace is likely the first name that pops into your head. Today the organisation is synonymous...
NO ESCAPE (2015)
[usr 2.0] Try not to take the title of No Escape too seriously. If you’ve seen any of the trailers you’ll know that there...
HITMAN: AGENT 47 (2015)
[usr 2.0] There’s no real reason why films based on video games shouldn’t work. However, there can also be no denying that the vast...