When radars at a military fort in Alaska detect a rogue nuclear missile heading in the direction of Chicago, the US high command begins a race against the clock to identify who launched it and how to respond.
Placing small bets and folding under pressure, Ballad of a Small Player is overstylised and substanceless — met at this level by its director, script and star.
Horror movies provide important insights about ourselves, director Alexandre O. Philippe tells Amasio Jutel.
Horror movies provide important insights about ourselves, director Alexandre O. Philippe tells Amasio Jutel.
Eddington is an absurdly realist Covid-era conspiracy thriller from Ari Aster, revealing our doomscrolling alienation as we retreat into our individual algorithms until we no longer recognise our neighbours.
There are plenty of kinks in a new space opera, most of them by design, Amasio Jutel writes.
From his 2022 Detroit basement horror, Barbarian, Zach Cregger has levelled up in almost every way in Weapons.
Relationships and healing were central for the director and star of a new film, they tell Weekend Mix film reviewer Amasio Jutel.
Weekend Mix film reviewer Amasio Jutel has five ways to make the most of using the festival’s popular five-film multipass.
The colourful flair of Superman is undoubtedly a positive indicator of the direction director-turned-chief executive of DC Studios, James Gunn, will take his new comic book sandbox.
Re-entering his high-octane motor vehicle bag, Joseph Kosinski’s follow-up to Top Gun: Maverick boasts cinematic spectacles worth the price of admission alone.
28 Years Later is post-post-apocalyptic horror with a deep emotional storyline, exhilarating action, and bombastic film-making, and a tale of the cold-hearted tribalism and polarisation that its writer too often pontificates about in less effective films.
As the stunts get bigger and better, the framing gets duller and more convoluted.
The sentimental retrospective of a late-career auteur exploring his legacy.
Despite the very silly title, Clown in a Cornfield has the feel of a Texas Chainsaw slasher paired with the slapstick sentiment of Terrifier’s ridiculously costumed clowns who, without fail, wear size 100, squeaky clown shoes at every killing.
Overloaded with screenwriters and devoid of serious cinematic care, A Minecraft Movie has been IP-mined for every block the game is worth.
In Grand Tour, East Asia’s cultural richness becomes the tapestry against which the White middle-class Brits stage their trivial social squabbles.
A married pair of intelligence agents, one suspecting the other of international crimes that could threaten the lives of thousands, navigate the volatile nature of their espionage-based work in their personal lives.
More Okja than Parasite, Mickey 17 announces Bong Joon-ho’s return to feature film-making six-years on from his paramount success at the Academy Awards in 2020.
Transcendent and singular, RaMell Ross dramatically pioneers a new cinematic language, revitalising the art of literary adaptation in his retelling of Colson Whitehead’s prize-winning 2019 novel, Nickel Boys.
