Film Reviews

‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Review: Threequel Outshines Its Predecessors by Introducing a Shadow [B]

It’s funny what a series of competent, agreeable family movies have done for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Following a… Read More

December 18, 2024

‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Review: If Lion Cubs Could Talk [D]

On December 5, 2024, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz published a profile feature for Vulture entitled “Moonlight in the Lion’s… Read More

December 17, 2024

‘A Complete Unknown’ Review: Chalamet is Great, but Film Succumbs to Familiar Biopic Pitfalls of a Life Collapsed into Montage [C+]

It’s hard to ask for a more routinely workmanlike filmmaker than James Mangold. Whether working in the realm of mental… Read More

December 10, 2024

‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ Review: Bland and Dull, it Put the “Mid” in “Middle-earth” [C+]

Like a Nazgûl flying overhead, Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy has cast a shadow over the new… Read More

December 9, 2024

‘Nosferatu’ Review: Lily-Rose Depp Gives a Ferocious Performance as Robert Eggers Creates a Wicked, Wintry Wonderland of Sex, Desire and Death [A]

The dreamlike twinkling of a music box trills as if to begin a fairy tale. This lullaby-like tune has an… Read More

December 2, 2024

‘Moana 2’ Review: Rough Seas and a Waterlogged Narrative Sink Choppy Sequel

The 2016 release of Moana was one of the highlights of Disney’s animated film output of the 2010s. It features… Read More

November 26, 2024

‘Wicked’ Review: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Will Sweep You Off Your Feet in Jon M. Chu’s High-Flying Musical Feast

The Wicked Witch of the West was an icon of cinematic villainy for decades before Gregory Maguire’s 1995 revisionary novel… Read More

November 19, 2024

‘Red One’ Review: The North Pole Has Fallen For Johnny Storm and The Rock

If you ever wished that Air Force One (1997) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013) took place in a world where… Read More

November 15, 2024

‘The Wise Guy’ Review: VHS Flourishes and Idolisation of 20th Century Gangster Films Elevate Generic Coming-of-Age Story | Belfast Film Festival

As we get further and further away from the technology of the past, filmmakers who interacted with it in their… Read More

November 11, 2024

‘Gladiator II’ Review: Rome if You Want To

In the opening credits of Gladiator II, a rotoscoped animated retelling of the finale of 2000’s Oscar-winning Gladiator with Russell… Read More

November 11, 2024

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