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Die Akademie (2024) – an entertaining female Whiplash with little of the stakes
Maja Bons is excellent as budding and naïve artist Jojo in Camilla Guttner’s Die Akademie, a surreal tale…
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28 Years Later (2025) – Danny Boyle’s tense third instalment does too much all at once
Six months ago, one of the most frightening trailers to ever grace screens dropped to mass – apocalyptic…
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Good One (2024) – Lily Collias walks a winding path in India Donaldson’s indie full of complicated emotions
There are always two types of hikers – those who know how to pack peanut butter and those…
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The Salt Path (2024) – unremarkable film for what is a truly remarkable story
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake meets Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild in this moving saga of a couple who, evicted…
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I finally watched Schindler’s List (1993)
The idea you make of a film before watching it has always been a strange concept – a…
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The Phoenician Scheme (2025) – Wes Anderson bounces back with whimsical tale of a father and daughter bonding over illegal affairs
Are Wes Anderson’s films loved because of the way they look or because of the stories they tell?…
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Riefenstahl (2024) – portrait of Hitler’s personal film director is fascinating if slightly biased
“Memory is the paradise from which you can never be removed”, writes Leni Riefenstahl in one of her…
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) – a bittersweet send-off
Well, that’s it, folks. Mission: Impossible is over. On the one hand, it feels hard to believe that this latest instalment…
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The Surfer (2024) – Nicolas Cage just can’t catch a break (or wave) in hallucinogenic Australian thriller
Nicolas Cage navigates choppy waters in this bonkers Australian flick about a man so determined to join the…
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Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) – a sweet, familiar, fun and ultra-processed recession indicator of a film
Flash forward: a premonition. You watch a film that starts out as fun but just devolves into a…
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Thunderbolts* (2025) – a solid and heartfelt Marvel blockbuster that doesn’t get to truly shine
As someone long-distanced from the MCU and anything that’s happened since Endgame, and who had no interest in…
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Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow) (2024) – Debut about young dairy farmers is as tender as it is wistful
There is very little forgiveness to be found in Louise Courvoisier’s debut Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow), a story…
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The Penguin Lessons (2025) – Adaptation of Tom Michell’s memoir plays between the feel good and existential with grace
There’s something quite magnetic about films staging a curmudgeonly man being forced out of his comfort zone. The…
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Sinners (2025) – Ryan Coogler’s thriller bites off more than it can chew
Ryan Coogler has successfully broken out of Marvel with Sinners, a southern gothic horror that bites off more…
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Drop (2025) – Unoriginal high-strung thriller is entertainment without substance
Meghann Fahy stars in this nail-biting thriller from screenwriter and director Christopher Landon, a far cry from his…