EntertainmentMovie review: Mistress AmericaA sharp portrait of the agony and ecstasy of becoming yourself.21 Nov 08:30 PM
EntertainmentReview: New Hunger Games film 'long and grim'After four years, three films and reportedly over US$2.2 billion in worldwide box-office takings, author Suzanne Collins' disturbing young adult book trilogy comes to a grim and exhausting conclusion with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.19 Nov 06:00 AM
EntertainmentReview: Romance wishful thinkingA budding young writer in need of life experience finds the perfect muse on the streets of New York; a sophisticated, older French woman who suggests they have a "cinq-a-sept", an affair that takes place between the hours of 5am and 7pm.19 Nov 02:55 AM
EntertainmentReview: Studied characters lacking shocksMore than once in Michael Almereyda's playfully imaginative telling of the famous Stanley Milgram experiment, the film's subject walks through the corridors of Yale University musing direct to camera as an elephant lumbers by in the background.19 Nov 01:55 AM
EntertainmentReview: Thriller's threads untiedWhen the Argentinian thriller The Secret in Their Eyes walked away with the 2010 Oscar for best foreign film.19 Nov 12:55 AM
EntertainmentSpectre review: Vintage James Bond? Roger thatThis is reportedly the most expensive Bond movie ever. It's also the longest Bond film ever. It isn't however the best Bond movie ever - or of the Craig era either.12 Nov 04:30 AM
EntertainmentDoco gives clarity on climate changeA coffee-break conversation at a climate-change conference in Wellington in 2006 was the beginning of this small but accomplished doco.11 Nov 04:30 PM
EntertainmentLack of chemistry spoils lesbian love storyAn exceptional cast of three Oscar nominees, with some wins between them, work hard to elevate a plodding script to more than a TV movie of the week, but it's a tough ask.05 Nov 04:30 AM
EntertainmentMovie review: He Named Me MalalaAny film about Malala Yousafzai, the courageous Pakistani girl shot by the Taleban in 2012, would be inspiring.04 Nov 05:30 PM
EntertainmentMovie review: UnIndianThe first fruit of a co-production agreement between Australia and India, this cross-cultural love story follows a formulaic and predictable path.04 Nov 04:30 PM
EntertainmentAmerican dream crumbles in new filmDynamic and passionate, thrumming with barely suppressed anger, this sleek American indie has the brains of a documentary, the soul of a moral fable and the beating pulse of a thriller.28 Oct 10:50 PM
EntertainmentMistress America: A bitingly funny Big Apple taleCalling this latest collaboration, by director Noah Baumbach and star and co-writer Greta Gerwig a whirlwind of witty observations about the entitled middle class, is an understatement; it's a tornado.28 Oct 07:15 PM
EntertainmentWe review the fifth and final Paranormal Activity filmThe Ghost Dimension is set in 2013, when a new family move into a house and find a 1980s-era video camera and tapes.25 Oct 02:30 AM
EntertainmentMovie review: Bridge of SpiesBridge of Spies is a dialogue-driven, handsome and detailed period piece, which also features conversations about America's constitution and civil liberties.25 Oct 02:30 AM
EntertainmentMovie review: BurntBurnt is not a film to watch on an empty stomach, writes Francesca Rudkin.23 Oct 03:00 AM
EntertainmentThe Walk: 'A hokey display of CGI mastery'The Walk, a film based on Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers, is more gimmickry than poetry, writes Peter Calder.21 Oct 10:30 PM
EntertainmentLegend's Hardy performanceIn the new version of the Kray twins story, the notorious gangsters spring to life fully formed.14 Oct 06:00 PM
EntertainmentReview: Haunting western from North AfricaFrench writer-director Oelhoffen parlays a 1957 short story by Albert Camus into a quietly riveting quasi-Western, set in the sere rocky uplands of Algeria in the 1954, at the start of the bloody war against the French colonisers.14 Oct 04:30 PM
EntertainmentReview: Family drama with human heartThe presence of Sharma (from Ang Lee's The Life of Pi) and Revolori, the bellboy stuck on fast-forward in Wes Anderson's mystifyingly popular The Grand Budapest Hotel, may improve the fortunes of this straightforward family drama.14 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentHas Johnny Depp finally returned to form?Depp's intense, quietly disturbing portrayal of cold-blooded killer Jimmy "Whitey" Bulger proves the actor is back on form.10 Oct 01:30 AM
EntertainmentEmotional dramedy makes little senseThe sobbing and sniffing in the theatre would indicate this emotionally manipulative story about lifelong friends dealing with one of them having cancer hits the mark - but it's a close-run thing.07 Oct 05:30 PM
EntertainmentKiwi scientist reviews The MartianAuckland University's Professor Richard Easther, one of the world's leading cosmologists, gives his scientific verdict on the movie of the moment.06 Oct 08:00 AM
EntertainmentMatt Damon's Mars movie a riveting thrillerMatt Damon and Ridley Scott's adaptation of the bestseller about an astronaut stranded on the red planet is the interplanetary geek gardening thriller of the year.02 Oct 06:55 PM
EntertainmentPan flick something the kids will loveIn Pan, director Joe Wright creates his own interpretation of Barrie's story by taking the source material and imagining what came before, telling the story of how Peter found Neverland, and became Peter Pan.30 Sep 04:30 PM
EntertainmentBoorman returns to warMore than a quarter-century after Hope and Glory, his enchanting, autobiographical child's-eye view of London in the Blitz, Boorman turns in a sequel-of-sorts.30 Sep 04:00 PM
EntertainmentMichael Fassbender's Macbeth 'brilliant'The Scottish play is Shakespeare's leanest tragedy, barely 2500 lines as against Lear's 3500 and Hamlet's 4000.30 Sep 03:00 AM
EntertainmentReview: De Niro's new flick doesn't quite deliverFilmmaker Nancy Meyers has produced a catalogue of lighthearted, fun films, with mature actors and made for mature audiences; think Something's Gotta Give and It's Complicated.27 Sep 03:00 AM
EntertainmentPixels not terrible ... for an Adam Sandler movieAdam Sandler leading a crew to save the world against an invasion of 80s videogame arcade characters created by aliens who got hold of one of those Nasa space probes with a recording of what we did for entertainment in 1982.25 Sep 01:30 AM
EntertainmentReview: Tom Hardy's unusual musical crime thrillerOccupying the most improbable of genres, the musical thriller, this feature-film version of a 2011 National Theatre hit takes an unusual angle of view to explore the effect on the small Ipswich street of the title of a wave of murders in 2006.24 Sep 02:30 AM
EntertainmentReview: Film's choreography 'electrifying'Internationally acclaimed South Auckland hip-hop superstar Parris Goebel turns this classic follow-your-dreams dance story into something special, thanks to her electrifying, unique style of choreography and incredible troupe of dancers.23 Sep 05:00 PM
