Film reviews

Ben Wheatley’s new Netflix film might make you wonder where the company gets the audacity to continually raise its subscription price.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's exceptional screenwriting debut is ultimately a feel-good movie about the tension between the need for belonging and the search for the authentic self.

A serious, impressively committed and entirely wordless indie horror about humans being hunted and slaughtered by other animals.

Screened as part of Spirit of Independence micro-budget film festival, Like avoids the pitfalls of the ‘found footage’ genre to comment on social media, performance and human relationships.

A haunting story of the pursuit of individuality and personal truth that ultimately ends in madness.

A contemporary romance-in-reverse that meditates on the mystery of relationships.

Ron Howard’s adaptation explores the interface of our inner and outer worlds, and the capacity we have in creating reality from what we value most.

Wayne Wang and Paul Auster's 1995 indie comedy drama explores the interconnectivity of personal stories and the prospect of recovery through community and connection.

A heartbreaking portrayal of loneliness and isolation - and arguably Robin Williams' finest hour in film.

The last decade has seen a profound shift in our relationship with the environment. The spotlight has been on climate change, habitat destr…

Salt-crusted wood and flaky green metal, the lightest footprint of civilisation already ruined and retaken by the sea and sand of a lonely i…

Bong Joon-Ho's tale of the clashing worlds of the wealthy Park family and the impoverished Kim family relies on a wilful ignorance of what e…

The Safdie Brothers' anxiety-riddled Uncut Gems is a film about escape; a film about an indebted gambler scheming against all the odds that …

There comes a point in Honey Boy, a semi-autobiographical film that explores child actor Otis Lort's relationship with his outlaw father, wh…

A picturesque, secluded home, a gallery of guests with bones to pick and a wealthy patriarch with his throat slit. It's almost too perfect a…

The Irishman is a funereal film. It's one of those melancholy retrospectives that a master of cinema might create as they approach their twi…

Beanpole is a film about the lasting, traumatic brutality of war in which not a single shot is fired and the most shocking scenes are quiet,…

Something like Joker was inevitable. With the superhero genre having long since conquered contemporary cinema, it was only a matter of time …

When Breaking Bad, among the most groundbreaking and beloved TV shows this side of The Sopranos, drew to a close in 2013, showrunner Vince G…

James Gray looks to the stars with his genre flirtation, Ad Astra, about lonesome astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), who has believed his fa…