Jon Favreau’s genre mash-up is yet another underwhelming summer brouhaha that fails to up the ante.
This unlikely reboot is a relatively modest B-movie bolstered by A-grade technical wizardry.
The life and times of Nim Chimpsky make for an extraordinary and tragic tale from director James Marsh.
By Matt Glasby
JJ Abrams delivers big in this enthralling nostalgia trip to small-town USA circa the 1970s.
A pure, wonderfully animated story of friendship against the odds from an emerging anime voice.
Despite a stand-out performance from an old pro, Beginners keeps the audience at a distance.
In an already strong year for British film this isn’t quite ambitious enough to stand out.
A glorious ode to the improbability of existence which asks us to cherish the simple processes of living and loving.
By Anton Bitel
You won’t see a masked vigilante movie more morally responsible or edgy this side of The Dark Knight.
By Julian White
This is a deceptively powerful movie by one of Iran’s finest directors.
An ejaculatory mess that seeks to medicate its audience with a glut of whizz-bang spills and vein-bulging fist pumps.
By Lewis Bazley
A fast, thrilling and unashamedly old-fashioned adventure that falls in with Marvel’s best.
By Kevin Maher
The real shock is that this story of pre-wedding tensions amongst six mismatched bridesmaids is not Apatow-by-numbers.
By Josh Winning
The Messenger is a movie that delivers its own moral tale – one many are probably not going to like.
By Lewis Bazley
At its best The Beaver is deftly handed and genuinely moving but too often it’s jarring and disjointed.
A highly-fetishised, hyper-surreal teenage Twin Peaks that’s undone by its own excesses and a lack of narrative clarity.
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