SPY (2015)
[usr 3.0] When she was a kid, Susan Cooper’s (Melissa McCarthy) mother used to leave a note in her lunchbox each day that read:...
SPECTRE (2015)
[usr 3.5] To follow on from the billion-dollar box office success of 2012’s Skyfall must have been a bit of a daunting task for...
TOMORROWLAND (2015)
[usr 3.0] One of this summer’s biggest box-office disappointments was Disney’s Tomorrowland, from director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, Ratatouille). It made $208m worldwide,...
POLTERGEIST (2015)
[usr 2.0] Tobe Hooper’s original Poltergeist is a great film and the story of its production has become legend, so even a good remake’s doomed to sit...
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...
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...