• It’s gratuitously violent. It’s puerile, crass, meta and it goes to the ends of the earth to earn that R rating.

    In short, it’s everything Deadpool should be.

  • The Finest Hours is all about action, suspense and tension – it rarely lets its audience down on any of those accounts. But it’s still a strictly procedural film and doesn’t exactly break new ground.

    But it’s at least 10 times more fun than Ron Howard’s recent high seas drama – In the Heart of the Sea.

  • Room may be a film about entrapment, but it’s also one about liberation, about letting go of one’s fears and moving on from trauma.

    At one point Jack asks to be shorn of the hair he has been cultivating since infancy. It’s a revelatory, transformative moment in a film you won’t find nearly so easy to say goodbye to.

  • The film finds a nice mix between comedic antics and outright social commentary.

    It captures the staunchly irreverent spirit of the books, with the movie giving much of its focus to the overall buffoonery of the residents of its absurd version of history.

    Old, young, whatever age: everyone should watch this one.

  • It’s all mostly harmless as far as these things go – lazy, sure, but harmless.

    And if you ever wanted to see a chipmunk sing Baby Got Back and Uptown Funk, well, congratulations, Christmas is here.

  • After the thrilling convolutions – narrative and moral – of Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill and even Inglorious Basterds, Tarantino has stopped challenging himself.

    Django Unchained is where he became his own yes man, and by the looks of The Hateful Eight, he hasn’t yet remedied the issue.

    Though my mind could change with another viewing. That’s the power of Tarantino.

  • For a movie about vulnerable men trapped half-a-mile underground, The 33 fails to convey a sense of claustrophobia or dread that would ensure viewers are present every second

    But it still has a heart. It is, after all, an extraordinary story of courage, hope, and faith.

  • …what’s sad is that the film won’t challenge the audience one bit. And just might send those insensitive to gender issues straight to sleep.

  • Viewers looking for an educational adaptation of Bolivian political history will, without question, find a lot of problems.

    Those hoping for a zany dramedy may find that Green spends too much time trying to emphasise larger sociocultural messages instead of only delivering cutting satire.

  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the movie it was promised to be, with great new characters, a respect for the original trilogy and a strong understanding of what makes this franchise click with fans.

    But in the end it matters not, this review. See the film, you probably will. See the film, you should.

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