Film + Reviews
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3 out of 5 stars.The star makes for a charming lead playing a mother falling for a younger pop star in a passable adaptation of Robinne Lee’s bestselling pulp
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4 out of 5 stars.
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano review – reclaiming normality in post-explosion Beirut
4 out of 5 stars.The port explosion of 2020 damaged just about everything in the city and this painful but tender doc follows a film crew who try to resume work -
2 out of 5 stars.Eponymous hero tackles a pooch-pinching operation by getting captured in this old-fashioned production
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3 out of 5 stars.Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is a sweet-natured and beautifully photographed portrait of a grumpy middle-aged guy, his sceptical wife and their teenage daughter
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2 out of 5 stars.
Super Wings: Maximum Speed review – kiddie plane cartoon that normalises social media for under 10s
2 out of 5 stars.Although aimed at very young children, the film’s cheerful little airplanes are caught up in a plot involving kidnapping social media influencers
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3 out of 5 stars.The Max adaptation of John Green’s 2017 novel ably handles the interior struggles of OCD, if not the threads of its plot
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3 out of 5 stars.
ISS review – Ariana DeBose shines in tense if contrived International Space Station thriller
3 out of 5 stars.DeBose plays a research scientist caught between increasingly at odds astronauts and cosmonauts in Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s credulity-stretching sci-fi drama -
2 out of 5 stars.Kobi Libii’s comedy about an artist who joins a secret Black society dedicated to improving the lives of white people fails to bite
Much Ado About Dying review – brave, loving record of an actor uncle’s last days
4 out of 5 stars.