The Little Stranger is a captivating Gothic mystery adapted from Sarah Waters’s acclaimed novel as a claustrophobic haunted house movie with a devious shudder in every scene
Crazy Rich Asians is the kind of movie that seems even worse in retrospect because, when you replay it in your mind, you realise the easy route it takes through a potentially complicated story
Black 47 doesn’t exploit the tragedy of the famine by relegating it to the background of a violent Western, but frames that horror in a way that resonates with the form in which it is being expressed.
Cold War (filmed once again in lustrous black and white) sets a decade-spanning saga of on again, off again love against the momentous backdrop of a bleak era in recent Polish history, the post-World War II absorption by the USSR
BlacKkKlansman is a funny, furious telling of the true story of black police detective Ron Stallworth and his partner Flip Zimmerman investigating the local chapter of the KKK in Colorado Springs in the early 1970s
If the first Equalizer existed only to rapidly progress our unstoppable Good Samaritan though a hierarchy of disposable bad guys on his way to a grandstanding showdown, this more protracted edition is easily distracted and ludicrously contrived.
Under The Tree is a carefully delineated and brutally effective parable for our increasingly hostile and uncivil times
Ant-Man & The Wasp is an overlong, underpowered knockabout comedy in which anything goes and nothing matters. It’s not supposed to make sense, even by Marvel’s logical yardstick, it’s just supposed to be fun
You never know quite where you stand watching a Mission: Impossible film, but with Christopher McQuarrie’s sixth instalment, you know where you’ll sit: right on the edge of your seat.
What might have been a B-movie guilty pleasure instead feels like an arrangement of humdrum bits from other, better films
With Incredibles 2, writer and director Brad Bird has returned to deliver a sequel that doesn’t build on the first film so much as painstakingly remake it
Mary Shelley is an unconventional and inconsistent film, and Haifaa al-Mansour is an unconventional and inconsistent choice to direct it
Emmet Kirwan’s chippy charisma and blabbermouth energy does much to patch over the gaps in Dublin Oldschool's wandering story
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Told with an energising combination of verve and artfulness, Hereditary could never be entirely new, but it is uncommonly effective, with the goosebumps lingering long after the closing credits.
