Reviews

In 1969, a culturally significant music festival took place in the state of New York. Attracting an audience of 400,000 people, Woodstock became one of the biggest festivals in the 1960s and marked a turning point in popular music.…

Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round has a lot more going on than even its eccentric premise would suggest. Here is a film that takes a great insecurity felt within many and, through its inciting incident and further, uses it as a means of…

At first, the many lives given to Robert Altman’s Nashville suggest no arrangement or design; much like the reverse of a tapestry, the various storylines appear to knot and tangle, intersecting at various points, with the radiant…

There is something terrifying about the idea of “family” – the undeniable, invisible bonds that connect parents with their children, brothers with their sisters. Family will do anything for family, history has told, simply by virtue of…

Danny, a middle-aged city councillor and businessman in an unnamed Eastern European town, is to be the subject of a documentary on money laundering – but that's not Danny's plan. Instead, he hijacks the documentary for his own ends and…

11 years ago The Social Network looked at how someone doesn't "get to 750,000,000 friends without making a few enemies". In 2021, Polish social media drama Sweat asks what do you do when you have 600,000 followers but zero friends? The…

A supernova is the largest explosion that takes place in space. Scientists describe it as a star increasing greatly in brightness due to an explosion within. Beautiful and catastrophic, it’s an apt metaphor for Harry Macqueen’s newest…

It has been four years since we last saw Dominic Toretto and his crew. After rumours of on-set clashes between cast members, spin-offs and the COVID-19 pandemic, fans were unsure of when we would see the gang back again on the big screen.…

The Novice was named Best US Narrative Feature at Tribeca Film Festival but does this tale of obsession out on the open water sink or swim? Alex Dall is obsessively row, row, rowing her boat fiercly down the stream. Certainly not…

A24's False Positive is glossy psychological thriller conceived as a Rosemary' Baby for the IVF generation. After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy (Ilana Glazer) and Adrian (Justin Theroux) finally find their dream…