BEASTS OF NO NATION (2015)
[usr 2] Cary Joji Fukunaga, the director, writer, producer and cinematographer of Beasts of No Nation, has an eye for striking images. Which is...
PAN (2015)
[usr 2.5] Early reviews suggested that Joe Wright’s Peter Pan prequel (which purports to tell how he became The Boy Who Never Grew Up)...
JURASSIC WORLD (2015)
[usr 4.0] The Jurassic Park franchise has always been looking back 65 million years (wondering how modern man would cope with the return of...
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (2014)
[usr 4.0] Times are tough for traditional, two-dimensional, hand drawn animation. The mainstream is dominated with glossy, shiny, digitally-animated movies that, while often hits...
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...
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....