‘Look Away’ Review: What’s Lurking Behind The Surface?
Maria (India Eisley) is a shy girl with a lot of problems. She has bullies at school, a crush on her best friend’s boyfriend, and...
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‘Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Latest is Even Crazier than Get Out, But Is It As Good?
Get Out director Jordan Peele’s new film sees Adelaide Thomas (Lupita Nyong’o) returns to the site of a childhood trauma with her husband (Winston Duke)...
‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ Review: Eerie Tale of Jealousy And Talent Lost
Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a kindergarten teacher who writes poetry that fails to impress her class and who is losing her pride in her...
‘Roma’ Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Extraordinary Portrait Of Life In Mexico City
Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) is a maid working for a wealthy family in 1970s Mexico City. The family is undergoing a messy separation when Cleo discovers...
‘Assassination Nation’ Review: Trigger Warning
Odessa Young plays Lily Colson, a high school girl living in Salem. She contends with artistic stifling at school, gossip among her friends and sexual...
‘The Equaliser 2’ Review: This Time It’s Not Particularly Personal…
After rescuing an adorable blonde white girl from some shady looking foreign types, all American hero Robert McCall solves more problems around his neighbourhood with...
‘Mission: Impossible -Fallout’ Review: A New Height For The Franchise?
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) must recover three Plutonium cores before a terrorist group known as “The Apostles” use it to usher in a new world...
‘Skyscraper’ Review: Lofty Premise, Rocky Delivery
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stars as Will Sawyer, a security assessor who has been asked to evaluate the largest building ever constructed. He moves his...
‘Leave No Trace’: Hauntingly Beautiful Tale Of Belonging
In Debra Granik’s first feature film since 2010’s Winter’s Bone, traumatised war veteran Will (Ben Foster) and his daughter Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) are living illegally...
‘Sicario 2: Soldado’ Review: A More Accessible Grim Action Thriller
Ruthless CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and his sociopathic best friend Alejandro Gillick (Benicio Del Toro) return to Mexico to start a cartel war...