Reviews

‘Write what you know’ goes the old adage, and Hollywood scribes have long...

We never learn the name of Nicolas Cage’s character in The Surfer. (He is...

Every generation gets its own Die Hard. So potent is the power of John McClane...

Paul Feig’s A Simple Favour was a sleeper hit, blending competitive...

Roughly 15 minutes into Until Dawn, a creepy petrol station clerk warns a group...

If the Avengers are Marvel’s A-team, the Thunderbolts feel a little like the...

Gerard Butler is one of those actors who exists in a category all of his own: a...

If Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 psychological horror Pulse was about how the...

Yes, the synopsis for The Friend sounds like a discarded Friends subplot, but...

There’s a vitalness to Gareth Evans’ filmmaking that is yet to lose...

Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant (2016), written by Bill Dubuque, introduced...

From the jaunty opening music and wry delivery of Steve Coogan’s introductory...

We’ve seen vampires as a metaphor for sin, sex and even Mormonism. Now Ryan...

From its pulpy title, to its retro-computerised intro with Giorgio...

The premise of G20 is inherently silly. There’s no getting past it. It might...

While we wait to see Homer’s Odyssey as a big-budget Christopher Nolan...

Great ideas can strike in the strangest of circumstances. In the case of Drop,...

The revenge thriller is among the most satisfying staples of cinema: generally,...

That time when teens are on the cusp of adulthood has long proved fertile...

Over the past decade or so, the bar for kiddie-brand-exploiting cinema has...

The opening titles arrive at exactly the right moment. When a mythical horned...

To make an all-time-great album, you don’t play it safe. Ziggy Stardust, for...

After a series of big, bruising action efforts, director Jaume Collet-Serra is...

Appropriately, Warfare begins with a deafening assault, as Eric Prydz’s horny...