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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Howling (1981) Meaghan Morris Rob Bottin's special effects are hideously remarkable.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Proclivitas (2025) Jake Wilson Too bad the film isn’t as successful otherwise in combining disparate parts into a whole.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Sandra Hall Without [humor], the films’ graphic demonstrations of the many ways in which the human body can be dismembered, impaled, eviscerated, blown up and otherwise abused would constitute unadulterated sadism.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 3 (1993) Michael Hutak This is cliche-driven cinema at its diversionary best.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Cold Storage (2026) Jake Wilson Romantic comedies seem harder than ever to get off the ground, at least on the big screen. Cold Storage, from British director Jonny Campbell, has an original solution: disguising itself as a splatter movie.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Plague (2025) Sandra Hall It’s a very clever screenplay with unsettling shafts of black humour and perfect pacing.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Anemone (2025) Jake Wilson Not much happens in the present tense of Anemone, which often resembles a vastly over-extended student short...
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Reminders of Him (2026) Sandra Hall The last Hoover adaptation, Regretting You, was a flop because it failed to distil Hoover’s convoluted plot into an emotional cocktail potent enough to justify its weepy finish. This one, which is also out to inspire tears, has a better chance.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Waiting for Guffman (1996) Robert Drewe A terrific, almost one-man effort, as affectionate in its characterization as it is ruthless in its satire.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Phantom Lady (1944) SMH Staff Phantom Lady has more obvious affectations in style than the earlier film [Shadow of a Doubt], but maintains its suspense more evenly and more relentlessly so that there is scarcely a minute lost in which an audience can unclench its teeth.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Paul Byrnes It pummels you with noise and gore as it sniggers and sinks the boot in American uncivilisation, but it's graceless and ugly.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Jake Wilson But as piously kitsch extravaganzas go, Ann Lee is no Sound of Music.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Sirāt (2025) Jake Wilson Indeed, on all levels Sirat is designed as a shock to the system, meant to affect the body as much as the mind.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Solo Mio (2026) Sandra Hall It’s rare to find an American movie which approaches mature-age romance as engagingly as this one. It’s sweet-natured with a big heart.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Anna Maria Dell'oso Brilliant Taiwanese director Ang Lee brings his comic eye and sensitivity to complex relationships in a society rarely permitted frank expression.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) Anna Maria Dell'oso This deceptively simple tale about a poet and a peasant is a magical reconciliation between the things that cannot be said and the need to say them nevertheless.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Pillion (2025) Sandra Hall Films have taken me to some strange corners of the world but I’ve never felt quite as disoriented as I did while watching Pillion.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Sandra Hall ...in the incidental asides between Elvis, his audiences and his fellow musicians you’ll find a greater display of charm, humour and intimacy than in all two-and-a-half hours of Luhrmann’s biopic.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Jimpa (2025) Sandra Hall When the main character in a film is a filmmaker herself, it can look like a red flag. But a willingness to risk self-indulgence is part of the daring of Jimpa...
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Fackham Hall (2025) Jake Wilson ...the dull landscape paintings on the walls of Fackham Hall seem mostly to be just dull landscapes. During the lulls in the dialogue, I often found myself staring at them, wondering if there was something I’d missed.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Chocolat (2000) Paul Byrnes There is nothing really objectionable about this movie, except its sense of self-satisfaction. It's made to be so irresistible, like chocolate itself, that you may find yourself resisting its forced charm.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty in Pink (1986) Paul Byrnes The movie is a charming, funny update of a very old story, and Ringwald gives a fine performance, but somehow the picture never quite reaches the heights.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Crime 101 (2026) Jake Wilson ...Crime 101 is worth a look, if only for the stacked cast, which includes Nick Nolte and Jennifer Jason Leigh in small roles.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Whistle (2025) Jake Wilson Whistle remains a wilfully routine horror movie, self-aware to the point of caution.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) SMH Staff There is nothing routine here, and the acting by some comparative strangers is another proof that it does not need leading players to make a good story arresting. The romance of the narrative also has some fresh treatment.
Posted Feb 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Sandra Hall All [Margot Robbie] needs is her appeal as an A-list movie star. Her acting talent is a bonus. As for her Heathcliff he’s appropriately cruel, moody and Byronic and more importantly, they make an exquisitely glamorous couple.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Erin Brockovich (2000) Paul Byrnes The film has a plain look to suit the plain locations, but it's never dull because Erin fills the frame. She's outsized in everything except her clothes; an explosive temper, a mouth like a sailor, a big heart and a ton of guts.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Concert for Bangladesh (1972) Martha DuBose A disappointing record of the event.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
A Face in the Crowd (1957) SMH Staff All the supporting acting is first rate -- but the best things in the film are two of the few bits of real Kazanism.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Vanishing Point (1971) Martha DuBose The general tenor of the film is confused and dull.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Saipan (2025) Sandra Hall Hardwicke invests every silence with great eloquence.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) Jake Wilson Grief as a subject for horror cinema has become a cliche, but We Bury the Dead at its best is getting at something more specific...
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Scarlet (2025) Jake Wilson [The] latter section of the film again has some striking images, including a literal stairway to heaven where the steps are delicate strips of cloud. But as the plot gets more convoluted, the logic of the fantasy becomes harder to parse...
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Sandra Hall There’s very little spark between Dern and Arnett, and while it’s clear that this group of old friends enjoyed putting the film together, they fail to bring us in on the fun.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Days of Heaven (1978) Meaghan Morris Above all, it is the creativity of the photography which makes Days of Heaven an extraordinary experience, fusing a sense of the warmth and immediacy of living things with something fiercely distant, cold and detached.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Sandra Hall It’s a bravura effort which has deservedly scored an Oscar nomination.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Jake Wilson While Panahi doesn’t presume to say when forgiveness is preferable to justice, he takes the question seriously – and while the ending isn’t exactly reassuring, some degree of hope is implied in the way he allows his characters freedom to make the choice.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir (2026) Jake Wilson At nearly two hours, Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir is an endurance test for all but the most dedicated. Still, I emerged not wholly disliking its subject, and willing to believe that being Paris Hilton hasn’t been a bed of roses in all respects...
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Send Help (2026) Sandra Hall [Sam Raimi] treats us a crafty mix of blood, gore and gallows humour featuring two actors inviting us to share in the great time they’re having.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Anna Maria Dell'oso North is a passably interesting idea hacked and butchered into an inept film that's as boring as watching paint dry.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Lynden Barber Misery is a turn-up, a spare tale drawing its effectiveness from suspenseful plotting and strong performances.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
White Fang (1991) Lynden Barber The best the thing about White Fang is its splendid landscape photography.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Pacific Heights (1990) Lynden Barber What really hampers Pacific Heights is a script too contrived to really convince.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Sandra Hall There’s plenty of suspense here, but also a strong strain of gallows humour running through the serpentine storyline as if to pay tribute to the benefits of absurdism as a survival strategy, and Mendonça Filho has done a great job evoking the 1970s.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Madly (2025) Jake Wilson ...the film is hit-and-miss: cinematographer Fabrizio Lucci knows how to light a set, but the editing is on the haphazard side, when the material demands an abstract neatness.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Primate (2025) Sandra Hall It’s a wild ride during which you’re not even tempted to wonder if there’s a man in the monkey suit.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Jake Wilson ...the movie is basically a picaresque dark comedy juiced up with violent slapstick and audacious stunt casting, with Chalamet stunting the hardest of all.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Anna Maria Dell'oso When you unwrap The American President from its White House tissue, there's not much more to it than The Prince Who Falls in Love With The Commoner... Yet the dream of this movie is so beguiling you want to talk down the yellow brick road.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Jake Wilson As social satire, moreover, it may not say anything all that new. But it’s masterful on its own terms, and for all its relentless pessimism far from depressing. On the contrary, there’s something exhilarating about a filmmaker willing to go all the way.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
David (2025) Sandra Hall The film’s strengths are in the vitality of its animation and the beauty of its settings. ...Its flaws lie in its evangelical moments which sit oddly with its Disneyfied tone but that doesn’t seem to be deterring audiences.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
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