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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3.5/5
Hal (2018)
2
2.5/5
Vox Lux (2018)
The result is, despite a compelling performance from Portman... a surprisingly inert experience.
Posted Feb 19, 2019
3
4/5
Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
If you loved Happy Death Day, then I reckon you will be pretty happy with this sequel. Enjoy.
Posted Feb 15, 2019
4
3.5/5
Hang Time (2019)
Hang Time knows it is a competent and modestly well-written piece and it wears its confidence well.
Posted Feb 14, 2019
5
1.5/5
What Men Want (2019)
What Men Want is an idea wasted and an opportunity rejected.
Posted Feb 14, 2019
6
3.5/5
Border (Gräns) (2018)
7
3.5/5
Colette (2018)
8
The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018)
9
3/5
Cold Pursuit (2019)
Cold Pursuit isn't without its charms.... However, it just doesn't deliver the same thrills and chills as the original Scandinavian story.
Posted Feb 7, 2019
10
4/5
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
11
2.5/5
The Front Runner (2018)
12
4/5
On the Basis of Sex (2019)
So I'm grateful that On the Basis of Sex did such a warm and likeable job of putting some flesh on the bones of the story.
Posted Feb 6, 2019
13
5/5
Capernaum (Capharnaüm) (2018)
[Director Nadine] Labaki captures it all (including some heartbreaking and harrowing decisions) with an unblinking camera which will leave you shaken and stirred.
Posted Feb 5, 2019
14
Underarm is ambitious... And it's done its homework.
Posted Feb 1, 2019
15
4/5
Ben is Back (2018)
16
4.5/5
The Hate U Give (2018)
[The Hate U Give] is an engrossing and emotional drama that deserves to be seen by both its target teen audience and older viewers.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
17
2/5
The Mule (2018)
The Mule is a film in which every line of dialogue is either superfluous, groaningly contrived or merely expository.
Posted Jan 24, 2019
18
3.5/5
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
As it is, The Kid Who Would Be King is a good-natured alternative to the noise and bombast of a Marvel or DC style superhero adventure.
Posted Jan 18, 2019
19
2.5/5
Glass (2019)
I've always been a Glass half-full fan of Shyamalan, but this drab disappointment has shattered my faith.
Posted Jan 18, 2019
20
4.5/5
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
It can match any series of Game of Thrones for action, bloodshed and intrigue.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
21
3/5
Storm Boy (2019)
2019 Storm Boy's best moments come in revisiting the central tale of a boy and his pelicans, with Tidelands' Finn Little delivering an impressive performance.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
22
4/5
Making the Grade (2017)
Making The Grade is a little gem.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
23
It's weirdly fascinating.
Posted Jan 14, 2019
24
4/5
Instant Family (2018)
Instant Family hits the expected gags, but also finds a fine balance between the saccharine and the salty.
Posted Jan 11, 2019
25
5/5
Cold War (Zimna wojna) (2018)
It is a lean and perfect gem.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
26
2.5/5
Green Book (2018)
The greatest weakness of Green Book is that it insists on trying to find the humour in nearly every situation Shirly and Vallelonga encounter.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
27
3/5
Mission of Honor (2019)
28
Rivalled only by the Weta-infused Apes as the best trilogy of the current decade, How to Train Your Dragon completes its triptych with a fitting final flourish.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
29
5/5
The Favourite (2018)
In the leads, Olivia Colman is magnificently unhinged and colossally bewildered as the good Queen.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
30
3/5
The Happy Prince (2018)
It's an interesting, more sober counterpoint to 1997's Stephen Fry starring Wilde, but Happy Prince feels like more of a slog than it should be.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
31
4/5
Aquaman (2018)
32
4/5
Vice (2018)
McKay is aided immeasurably by a raft of fantastic performances.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
33
3.5/5
Sink or Swim (Le grand bain) (2018)
Not quite The Full Monty, but Sink or Swim is no half-baked premise either.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
34
4.5/5
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse does many things very well, and some things absolutely superbly.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
35
3.5/5
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
36
Bird Box (2018)
After such an amazing, awe-inspiring start, it's disappointing this thriller couldn't have thought a little more outside the box.
Posted Dec 27, 2018
37
4/5
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Director Rich Moore's return to the gaming world he so brilliantly created in 2012's Wreck it Ralph is a sometimes uneven, but ultimately endearing and satisfying sequel.
Posted Dec 21, 2018
38
2/5
Holmes and Watson (2018)
39
4.5/5
Bumblebee (2018)
40
5/5
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
At Eternity's Gate, in its best moments, is an intoxicating experience.
Posted Dec 18, 2018
41
5/5
Free Solo (2018)
Free Solo is a fantastic, unrepeatable film.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
42
3.5/5
Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
Just when you think you've seen all the Scottish zombie high-school musical comedies you'll ever need to...
Posted Dec 12, 2018
43
4.5/5
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
However, the film belong to both Grant and McCarthy. His performance and character remind one of his seminal 1987 black comedy Withnail and I.... while she is a revelation.
Posted Dec 11, 2018
44
2/5
Second Act (2018)
45
5/5
Roma (2018)
46
2.5/5
Being Rose (2019)
47
4/5
In Zone (2018)
If, like me, you believe that access to a great education system truly is the magic-bullet for almost all of society's ills, then you will love this.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
48
4.5/5
The Children Act (2018)
However, this is a riposte for anyone who thinks that all the great contemporary British drama can only be found on television.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
49
4/5
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
This is timely and terrifying documentary film-making.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
50
4/5
Mortal Engines (2018)
Mortal Engines hits the screen running and never really lets up the pace.
Posted Dec 5, 2018