Sci-Fi

Foe review – bewitching and terrifyingly plausible

By Leila Latif

Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre star in Garth Davies' unnerving sci-fi drama, based on Iain Reid's novel about a couple's disturbed existence in an America ravaged by climate change.

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Blue Beetle review – a fairly decent time at the movies

By David Jenkins

DC plunders the musty vaults for material and comes up with a poppy Latino riff on the boilerplate superhero yarn.

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Smoking Causes Coughing

By Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Eccentric French director Quentin Dupieux is totally dégagé about the ludicrous lameness of his latest comedy.

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Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts

By David Jenkins

The extinction of the human race is on the table with this join-the-dots seventh entry to the apparently beloved fighting robot-based mega franchise.

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Plan 75

By Trevor Johnston

Chie Hayakawa’s dystopian drama about a government-sponsored euthanasia programme is affecting, but leaves key questions unexplored.

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By David Jenkins

Pierre Földes' debut feature is an animated adaptation of a several short stories by celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

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By Hannah Strong

Adam Driver stars as a pilot stranded in the Cretaceous period in this bafflingly undercooked sci-fi action flopbuster.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

By Jake Cole

Scott Lang and his pint-sized family of heroes face off against Kang the Conquerer in this latest uninspiring Marvel outing.

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M3gan

By Hannah Strong

A tech wiz bites off more than she can chew when her pint-sized toy creation forms a strong, malevolent bond with her young niece.

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Avatar: The Way of Water

By David Jenkins

A gaudy blue folly which encapsulates James Cameron’s strength as an image-maker, but weakness as a storyteller.

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Strange World

By David Jenkins

This retro-inspired Disney adventure yarn boasts lots of great, progressive ideas, but lacks in the imagination department.

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

By Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

Writer/director Ryan Coogler expands his colonialist critique in this epic MCU sequel which also pays moving tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman.

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Neptune Frost

By Charles Bramesco

A group of coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman's Afrofuturist musical.

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Strawberry Mansion

By Charles Bramesco

A dream auditor becomes caught up with an ageing eccentric in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney's highly imaginative feature.

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Crimes of the Future

By Sarah Cleary

Extreme surgery replaces sex in body horror maestro David Cronenberg’s ambitious blends of science fiction and film noir.

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Prey

By David Jenkins

A lean monster-slasher B-movie set in the Predator universe that’s a highlight of an extremely patchy franchise.

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Thor: Love and Thunder

By Adam Woodward

Taika Waititi returns to the MCU five years after Thor: Ragnarok with a disappointing sequel sorely lacking in charm and imagination.

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