Film Review

Film review: Mug *** Film Review

Film review: Mug ***

April 16th, 2019760 By Preston Wilder When it comes to Mug, the ‘what?’ is less important than the ‘why?’ – not why the film exists but why it’s being shown here,...
Film review: Hellboy ** Film Review

Film review: Hellboy **

April 15th, 2019870 By Preston Wilder Hellboy (David Harbour) is red, “like a baboon’s arse” – or more pertinently blood-red, this new reboot of the comic-book...
Film review: Shazam! *** Film Review

Film review: Shazam! ***

April 8th, 20191177 By Preston Wilder What do this week’s new releases – Shazam! and Pet Sematary – have in common? Both play Ramones songs over the end credits, and both...
Film review: Instant Family * Film Review

Film review: Instant Family *

April 2nd, 20191499 By Preston Wilder A sign on the wall reads ‘Choose to be a forever home’. The camera lingers on the sign, and indeed why shouldn’t it? The sign – on...
Film review: Vox Lux **** Film Review

Film review: Vox Lux ****

March 25th, 20192118 By Preston Wilder It’s an astonishing week at the Cyprus multiplex; I’ve never seen anything like it. All three new releases – Us, Dragged Across...
Film review: Us *** Film Review

Film review: Us ***

March 25th, 20191721 By Preston Wilder I assume ‘Us’ also means ‘US’, though not in the highly specific way of Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning debut Get Out. “Who are...
Film review: Captain Marvel ** Film Review

Film review: Captain Marvel **

March 13th, 20192138 By Preston Wilder When the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) films become so innumerable that quick tags are needed to tell them apart, Captain Marvel will be...
Film review: The Favourite **** Film Review

Film review: The Favourite ****

March 11th, 20192613 By Preston Wilder S&M is known as ‘the English vice’, but it seems the occasional Greek can also partake. 18th-century England is indeed the setting...
Film review: The Wife *** Film Review

Film review: The Wife ***

March 5th, 20192645 By Preston Wilder It appears to be an open secret at the Oscars, judging by the anonymous interviews that get published every year, that not all voters...
Film Review: Green Book *** Film Review

Film Review: Green Book ***

March 4th, 20193593 By Preston Wilder Any number of self-righteous people, from Spike “bad call” Lee to the edgier type of film critic, are treating Green Book’s Best...
Film review: The Prodigy ** Film Review

Film review: The Prodigy **

February 26th, 20192751 By Preston Wilder There’s terrifying, and then there’s just tasteless. It’s a fine line, especially if we’re talking evil-child movies. 46 years...
Film review: The Quake *** Film Review

Film review: The Quake ***

February 25th, 20192774 By Preston Wilder It’s a good week for films which we have no business reviewing, as an English-language paper; still, language isn’t everything....
Film review: The Lego Movie 2 *** Film Review

Film review: The Lego Movie 2 ***

February 12th, 20192730 By Preston Wilder It’s exactly five years – 1825 days – since the release of The Lego Movie in February 2014, and it wouldn’t surprise me to learn...
Film review: Cold Pursuit **** Film Review

Film review: Cold Pursuit ****

February 11th, 20192778 By Preston Wilder Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! It’s your own fault, Liam Neeson, you swore you wouldn’t play any more action...
Film review: The Upside ** Film Review

Film review: The Upside **

February 4th, 20193021 By Preston Wilder The French comedy The Intouchables made over $400 million worldwide in 2011, and remains the third-biggest film of all time in France...
Film review: Holmes & Watson ** Film Review

Film review: Holmes & Watson **

February 4th, 20192392 By Preston Wilder True excellence is vanishingly rare; then again, so is true awfulness. Holmes & Watson comes trailing some of the worst reviews in...
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