Alex Scharfman rallies together a cast stacked with comedic actors, but the result of this dull ‘Eat the Rich’ flick misses the mark.
Joshua Oppenheimer returns with an ambitious, post-apocalyptic musical whose thematic flights of fancy are just a little too strident.
This anime-style journey to Middle Earth dials back on risk and charm to robustly tell a simple tale of good versus evil.
Although it doesn’t quite soar to the heights of the original, there’s a lot to enjoy in this delightful sequel.
CGI Blockbuster visuals aside, there’s much to love in Jon M Chu’s adaptation of one of Broadway’s biggest musical successes.
Alice Lowe’s miraculous second feature is a triumph of imagination, soul-searching and a refined comic instinct.
Burton, Keaton and Ryder turn up the juice and see what shakes loose in a sequel 36 years in the making that manages to deliver plenty of laughs even if it's all a bit chaotic.
By Anton Bitel
A mother and her teenage daughter come face to face with death in the form of a strange talking bird in Daina Oniunas-Pusic's feature debut.
Less Harry Potter and more American Fiction, this politically charged satire is more banal than it first seems.
Shoddy, rushed sequel that rides ramshod over past glories without offering anything new and exciting to this stale franchise.
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are electric in Andrew Haigh's twist on the modern ghost story, adapted from Taichi Yamada's cult novel.
Aggressively unmemorable return to a garish CGI Atlantis in which Jason Momoa’s sub-aqua regent wards off another potential apocalypse.
Greta Gerwig's behemoth blockbuster is a stranger, more fascinating film than its hyper-corporate marketing would suggest.
A blend of horror and satire unveiling the violent paradoxes of religious hypocrisy and aesthetic expectations.
Ezra Miller stars as Ezra Miller and Ezra Miller, and Michael Keaton is also there, in Andy Mushietti's take on DC's speediest superhero.
By Leila Latif
Halle Bailey’s charms can’t distract from all the bizarre choices at the heart of this underwhelming live-action remake.
Nicholas Hoult plays Count Dracula’s long-suffering servant in Chris McKay’s underwhelming horror-comedy.
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