KNOCK KNOCK (2015)
[usr 3.0] With Knock Knock, director Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) progresses from “torture porn” to psychological torture, but with a premise straight out...
TERMINATOR GENISYS (2015)
[usr 2.5] Fairly early into Terminator Genisys, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Pops utters this line to Emilia Clarke’s Sarah Connor: “This is a meaningless gesture. To...
MINIONS (2015)
[usr 2.5] The question Minions needed to answer was whether the cute Despicable Me critters are compelling and amusing enough to carry their own film. It’s...
SLOW WEST (2015)
[usr 4.0] The Britop music scene’s produced some curious turn-ups in recent years. Brian Cox from D:Ream, now better known as a celebrity physicist;...
EX MACHINA (2015)
[usr 4.0] The helicopter blades whirling over greenery in the opening of Alex Garland’s Ex Machina are eerily, deliberately reminiscent of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park....
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015)
[usr 4.5] It won’t win plaudits for storytelling complexity or depth, but George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is a stuntman’s fever-dream come to engine-roaring...
FURIOUS 7 (2015)
[usr 4.0] The Fast & Furious franchise gets so much right that it’s easy to ignore the things that are less appealing about it. It is...
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015)
[usr 3.5] If the box-office supremacy of The Avengers can be partly attributed to the simple mathematics of four established superheroes appearing in the same film,...