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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Howling (1981) Mike Daly Special effects by Robin Bottin make this film more convincing than the usual drive-in fodder but the corny plot and dialogue do their best to drag it down.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace (2026) Craig Mathieson The breakthrough praise for American comic Chris Fleming has been building these last few months – “a marvel to behold, a true artist,” declared Marc Maron – and it rightly peaks with this stand-up special, which captures Fleming at his absurdist best.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
War Machine (2026) Craig Mathieson It's a science-fiction survival film – the Ranger candidates are carrying blanks – with trace elements of Transformers, Battleship, and Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Somewhat derivative, but modestly enjoyable.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Ghost Elephants (2025) Craig Mathieson Cue Herzog’s unmistakable narrator’s voice, as the search unfolds with – it must be said – less personal risk and more thoughtful processes than the usual Herzog protagonist.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Goodfellas (1990) Jim Murphy It is a fascinating character study, brilliantly acted by all concerned and directed with astonishing virtuosity by Scorsese.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere (2026) Craig Mathieson Without being forensic, Theroux establishes the monetary gains that underpin the constant bluster about passing on “the cheat code”. And he shows their fan bases, whether excitable boys or solemn adult acolytes, in telling street scenes.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Waiting for Guffman (1996) Barbara Creed The film weaves much of its humor around events backstage and offstage, as well as through the antics of its bizarre crew.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Neil Jillett The few touches of reasonably incisive comedy are overwhelmed by Irvin Kershner's noisy and confused style of directing.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Jim Murphy When Robocop engages in a protracted stop-motion-animation battle with a rival cyborg... it is like watching a dinosaur and pterodactyl scrapping in a Ray Harryhausen flick of the '60s -- and about as interesting.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Jake Wilson I found the use of raw reality within what amounts to a traditional suspense framework not so much offensive as jarringly misjudged, rendering the craft of Ben Hania and her team beside the point (this includes the actors, however talented they might be).
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Moment (2026) Sandra Hall The best lines are swamped by background noise and overlapping dialogue and the action has a zigzagging trajectory without rhythm or variations in mood.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Jake Wilson In principle, the Bride is a single individual, in contrast to Frank, who was assembled from bits and pieces of multiple corpses. But as a fictional creation, she never adds up to a cohesive whole, any more than does the movie bearing her name.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Sandra Hall Powell makes a likeable lead and the action sequences are reasonably inventive with some adroit bits of choreography, but none of this outweigh the plot’s fundamental flaws.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
In the Blink of an Eye (2026) Craig Mathieson Stanton’s long-delayed film is looking to capture the fragile wonder of life, but it can be po-faced, lacking detail and occasionally daft.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) Colin Bennett Whether or not the mystery has any historical value, the film version of it is never dull.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Neil Jillett The script is often very funny, usually inventive and always hard-driving.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Colin Bennett The whole thing could be straight from the pages of the "New Yorker" and Miss Hepburn does full justice to its slightly cockeyed lyricism.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Bluff (2026) Craig Mathieson The Bluff has rough edges, but it’s never workmanlike.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Adrian Martin The Jane Austen revival seems to have half the world cheering and the other half groaning... The screen version of Sense and Sensibility, however, suggests that 1996's Austen mania indeed holds some modest pleasure.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) Adrian Martin It peddles an ancient misogynist myth that men are the seductive bearers of "the word", and women are swooning receptacles of these magic spells without irony or cleverness. And the film's ceaseless spectacle of proletarian obsequiousness is unbearable.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
THX 1138 (1971) Colin Bennett It seems cruel to say it, but the most exciting bit is not a part of the film at all but a prologue extracted from the Buck Rogers serial.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty in Pink (1986) Neil Jillett The film has an old-fashioned decency and humanity that are almost charming.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Neil Jillett Like many sequels, 'Bride of Re-Animator' is not a patch on the original.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) Adrian Martin Mostly, as in all Muppet movies, the infectious mood derives from the characters' insanity -- ever-ready to sing and dance even when about to be boiled or quartered (no one ever is, of course).
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Vanishing Point (1971) Colin Bennett Vanishing Point's vrroom-vrroom footage is gripping; its message and inevitable finale left me cold.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Erin Brockovich (2000) Adrian Martin Erin Brockovich displays a sure sense of which story threads need to be foregrounded. It is a superbly constructed, politically savvy and effortlessly rousing entertainment.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
A Face in the Crowd (1957) Colin Bennett Kazan presents the maneuverings behind the TV screen with savage, satiric force.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Camille (1936) Age Staff Greta Garbo approached her task with ennui, but once she sensed the soul of the character, she went on brilliantly from one phase to another.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Arabesque (1966) Colin Bennett Practically every shot in the film Is taken through a mirror, a glass tank...or something else of the sort that happens to be at hand. And this overwrought style reduces the film, in turn, to a mere reflection of the entertainment it could have been.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) Craig Mathieson Benedict Sanderson’s feature-length report is conventionally structured, unfolding much how you would expect in this oversaturated genre. But in her interview, Smart speaks with remarkable clarity and emotional detail about what she experienced.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Craig Mathieson Momoa and Bautista, who respectively play a loose-cannon cop and disciplinarian special forces operative, have fun with the action sequences and put some genuine effort into the fractured sibling dynamic.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Melania (2026) Karl Quinn ...it’s impossible not to feel that the real purpose of this portrait is not insight, but rather distraction from the awfulness and corruption of her husband’s regime.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Lawrie Zion Right from its opening moments, this "high concept" comedy seems rudderless and hopelessly adrift.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Paul Kalina Neither director Rob Reiner, nor the impressive cast, can rescue the limp and thinly-written script.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Dumb & Dumber (1994) Paul Kalina The plot sustains a series of scatological and sight-gags, some endearingly "dumb" humor, and provides a vehicle for Carrey's impressive talents in knockabout physical humor.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jim Murphy Gruesome but riveting.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Jim Murphy It will tickle your funnybone as well as whiten your knuckles.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Neil Jillett Bates, keeping caricature within almost plausible limits, is wonderfully funny and threatening as the unpredictable Annie.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Barbara Creed The American President works extremely well as a romantic comedy, but it falters badly when it attempts to merge the romance with politics.... Even Frank Capra would have choked on his jaffas.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway (2025) Craig Mathieson It’s obviously stage-bound, but nonetheless sharp in content and execution.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Rip (2026) Craig Mathieson The strewn breadcrumbs are very large, leaving little space for the fetid contemplation a great police corruption thriller needs. Sentimentality should never win out.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Bruce Grant Director Robert Wise has kept the proceedings on an entertaining level.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Colin Bennett It's a bullet worth biting.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Jake Wilson ...the messiness is partly what makes The Bone Temple worth seeing – and with at least one more chapter on the way, there’s happily no way of predicting where the story might lurch next.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (1960) Colin Bennett John Sturges has a fine eye for visually dramatic effects in colored CinemaScope, and the romantic-heroic image is well conveyed.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Age Staff It has a strong plot and the heavy brooding mood of suspense imparted.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Neil Jillett Superb ensemble work by its four young stars rarely masks the fact that "Stand By Me" is a wetly self-conscious little movie.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
A Place in the Sun (1951) Bruce Grant A Place in the Sun is a love story which carries no social challenge. As such, it is one of the most exciting films America has given us.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Trap House (2025) Craig Mathieson Bautista gives his all, but the same cannot be said for Bobby Cannavale as Ray’s partner, Andre Washburn. His performance is boilerplate.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
A Few Good Men (1992) Tom Ryan For its director, 'A Few Good Men' is "just a damned good old-fashioned courtroom drama", and it certainly has some pleasures to offer. The pity is that they're all surface ones...
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
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