Tár
Cate Blanchett plays accomplished yet manipulative conductor Lydia Tár, because naming her Ava would have been too ridiculous. They should have called it Miss Conduct. Despite its 15 rating for […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Women Talking
Surprisingly for a year when Avatar 2 is up for Best Picture, Don’t Worry Darling has been snubbed by the Academy, though it does share eerie similarities with Oscar nominee […]
Knock at the Cabin
M. Night Shyamalan ransacks a beloved property in his latest attempt to prove himself the worst director on the face of a dying earth. A quartet of doomsday evangelists (Dave […]
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
One year on from the death of King T’Challa, Wakanda is awash with watery invaders trying to steal their vibranium or something. Chadwick Boseman’s untimely death proves complicated for a […]
My Best Friend’s Exorcism
One of my favourite novels gets a Christopher Landon-produced (Happy Death Day, Freaky) makeover in this Amazon Original. What could possibly go right? My Best Friend’s Exorcism is a 2022 […]
Holy Spider
This Persian-language thriller is based on the real case of a serial killer who murdered 16 sex workers in Masshad circa 2001. Let’s call it Iranian Psycho. Born in Iran […]
M3GAN
An orphan is given a killer AI doll in M3GHAN, AKA Bride of Prince Chucky. Heavily hyped as the new Chucky, M3GHAN is more meme than movie. Like last year’s […]
Avatar: The Way of Water
In this follow-up to 2009’s Avatar, when the humans come back to Pandora, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) takes his family on a three-plus hour retreat to the Metkayina clan of […]
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
The concept of twin films is well documented, but 2022 offered triplet films in the form of three Pinocchio adaptations: Robert Zemeckis’ live-action Pinocchio, the Russian animation Pinocchio: A True […]
The Innocents (De uskyldige)
A telekinetic child (Alva Brynsmo Ramstad) and her little sister (Rakel Lenora Fløttum) move house in this Scandinavian chiller they should have called Carrie and Alexander. The Innocents has less […]
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