THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015)
While The Hateful Eight has proven to be a divisive movie, even many of its critics have praised Quentin Tarantino for working to keep...
PARTISAN (2015)
Whether it’s the intense psychological drama of films like Sean Durkin’s underrated chiller Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), or the hilarious satire of irresistible...
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (2015)
While it’s not completely dreadful, Ron Howard’s period actioner In the Heart of the Sea is a tepid attempt to bring excitement and conflict...
THE DANISH GIRL (2015)
Following on from their respective awards successes of late, a team-up between director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) and Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)...
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
There’s a moment halfway through Star Wars: The Force Awakens when I realised I was completely on board with the movie. It’s the wordless...
TRAINWRECK (2015)
It’s both a success and failure that the funniest thing about Judd Apatow’s latest film is basketball star LeBron James. I’ve never seen him...
KRAMPUS (2015)
It’s impossible to talk about Christmas horror movies without referencing Gremlins, and Krampus knows that. Boasting a similar family-fight-festive-critters premise to Joe Dante’s 1984...
BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)
Bridge of Spies (or Mr. Hanks Goes to East Berlin) is a seriously classy piece of refined, plush cinema that manages to balance the...
THE GOOD DINOSAUR (2015)
Pixar’s second film of 2015 couldn’t be more different from its first. Whereas Inside Out was a complex, grown-up fantasy very much from the studio...
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 (2015)
Mockingjay simply isn’t a very long book. It’s worth acknowledging that when pondering why it was a misguided decision to split the final Hunger Games...
STEVE JOBS (2015)
Biopics tend to follow a painfully familiar template. Frequently, out of an eagerness to not miss a single detail, films based on real events...
SPY (2015)
When she was a kid, Susan Cooper’s (Melissa McCarthy) mother used to leave a note in her lunchbox each day that read: “Give up...