Review – Roma (2018)
A divine vision, both inspiring and disquieting. Films, by their very nature, are a team effort. There are a colossal
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Review – The House That Jack Built: Director’s Cut (2018)
Muscular and mythical, tiresome and nauseating. You never forget your first, they say. Lars von Trier entered my life in
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Review – Beautiful Boy (2018)
An otherwise strongly performed piece suffocated by its director. Addiction is a curse. Addiction is a self-regulatory, horrific cycle. Addiction
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Review – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
First-rate Spidey meets world-class animation. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse shouldn’t work. The stupefying, impossibly conceived action sequences beckon belief, the
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Review – The Old Man & The Gun (2018)
Cosy, unassuming caper with pure heart. There’s a scene in David Lowery’s previous film, A Ghost Story, in which two
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Review – Sorry to Bother You (2018)
An outré punch in the face of the establishment. Coming straight from the mind of rapper/music producer/filmmaker Boots Riley, Sorry to
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Review – Suspiria (2018)
Guadagnino’s visceral, gaudy retelling of Argento’s classic Far are the twinkle-twinkle soundscapes and fluorescent adolescents of Argento’s psychosis-warping horror classic, renowned
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Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Scattershot concoction of wizardry and excess plot. “Let there be milk” J.K Rowling likely said as she amped up to
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Review – Outlaw King (2018)
Contemporary mashes with the old-school in this grimy, violent tale. For all its brazen historical inaccuracies, Braveheart is a cornerstone
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Review – Widows (2018)
An exceptional movie. Steve McQueen is an auteur of people. Their successes, their triumphs, their despairs, all are often explored
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Review – Mandy (2018)
“Mandy, you’re a fine girl” Nicholas Cage is the definitive lunatic actor, a fearless performer who happily takes on the
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Review – The Hate U Give (2018)
Teen-friendly but hard-hitting parable on racism. The film’s title, taken from the book upon which it is based, comes from
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Review – First Man (2018)
Chazelle goes three-for-three. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” said Neil Armstrong, as he set foot
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Review – Halloween (2018)
The ultimate successor to a purely evil classic. There are few films as seminal as John Carpenter’s Halloween. The 1978
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Review – Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
El Royale with cheese. Drew Goddard shook the horror genre with his twisted deconstruction in 2012’s The Cabin in the
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Review – Venom (2018)
Twisted, hugely problematic spin-off with salvation in its laughs. Life, the 2017 space-horror flick, was a surprising watch. It borrowed
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Review – The Predator (2018)
An over-the-top ode to 87’s majesty. Predator, one half of the galaxy’s most feared and fierce monsters, first appeared on
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Review – The Nun (2018)
Less Whoopi, barely spooky. The release of The Conjuring in 2013 had radical effects on the horror cinemascape – critics
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Review – Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Subtle in its revolution, powerful in its execution. Crazy Rich Asians isn’t a full on middle finger to the frequent
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Review – Searching (2018)
A shocking and thoroughly engaging mystery for today’s tech-obsessed generation. Searching, the feature film debut from Annesh Chaganty, looks like
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