Strangely compelling and twisted thriller
Frankly, Elle is a twisted little number that's weirdly entertaining.
Frankly, Elle is a twisted little number that's weirdly entertaining.
This debut feature from Aussie theatre director Rosemary Myers is a welcome addition to the coming-of-age genre.
The cast help make this one-off spin-off a pleasingly different kind of Star Wars film, one that gives a new hope to other tangential takes in the future.
Keoghan has certainly put his arse on the line to spin Harry's yarn in tandem with a personal challenge. It makes for a riveting if self-flagellating sports doco.
Office Christmas parties, much like New Year's Eve, International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and any other kind of scheduled fun, often
The new Irish comedy sees two teenagers find themselves in trouble with the police.
The documentary revolves around a comic book artist learning more about his family and their legacy.
A United Kingdom is a handsome, enjoyable historical drama, but doesn't quite reach the epic height it was aiming for.
Office Christmas Party veers into the ridiculous, but with a cast of likeable and quirky characters the wackiness works, without dazzling
There's little memorable about Trolls, but you got to hand it to these weirdly happy people - they sure know how to put a smile on a kid's face.
I'll admit that The Founder, the story of the birth of McDonald's, is a little harder to swallow than a cheeseburger and fries. The
Allied's strong sense of déjà vu sure makes it look nice. But it sure doesn't help make it a great film.
It's not often a censor's notes can be such a spoiler (Violence, horror, sexual material & necrophilia). You may want to add misogyny, cannibalism and vampirism to that list.
The Founder is a bland movie which becomes less great American business saga, than a mildly engaging, mildly uncomplimentary Kroc biopic.
Crazy found-footage thriller Operation Avalanche has arrived just in time for the supermoon rising over the country, keeping us all
Fantastic Beasts feels like something darker, stranger and altogether much less of a theme park blueprint than the Potter movies.
Moon landing hoaxsters will undoubtedly be very happy with Operation Avalanche.
War on Everyone is a film that is remarkably tone deaf and quite awful.
Following 2014's acclaimed Love Is Strange, Little Men is another very New York story with real estate concerns from director-writer Ira Sachs.
These doco directors brought clarity, perspective and humanity with The 5th Eye, which covers New Zealand's role in the Five Eyes spy alliance.
Arrival does have moments of story daftness, however, Adams' performance as Dr Louise Banks is terrific.
The Light Between Oceans, directed by Ryan Gosling fanboy Derek Cianfrance (Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine) is the latest
REVIEW: Mel Gibson will be hoping that Hacksaw Ridge can reset the bones of a broken career.
The predictability of an unhappy resolution headed the tears off - but the redemptive ending knocked me. I was still sobbing as I left the cinema.
Affleck, autism and accounting combine for enjoyable if ropy action movie.
Oh good. Another rich prick gets a cape and a suit. Wait, come back. This isn't that sort of superhero movie.
The way Hell or High Water gently and precisely unfurls its plot, the characters and their motivations lifts this above the ordinary.
I, Daniel Blake may be an incensed political film. But it runs on the hope that a decent bloke will get asked just that.
It's getting harder and harder to do new things with horror.
As a spoof or spy movie, you have to say this about Keeping up with the Joneses - it sure can't keep up with those Smiths.