Movies
Reviews of films available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
Netflix UK film review: Fighting
December 2, 2017 | David FarnorChanning Tatum delivers a breakout performance in this hard-hitting sports drama.Read More
VOD film review: Happy End
December 1, 2017 | Matthew TurnerMichael Haneke revisits all his familiar themes in this darkly satirical, Calais-set drama about a dysfunctional bourgeois family. Read More
The 90s on Netflix: Men in Black (1997)
December 1, 2017 | Mark HarrisonIn their first, best outing, Messrs Smith and Jones make one of the great sci-fi comedies.Read More
VOD film review: Most Beautiful Island
December 1, 2017 | Matthew TurnerSpanish actor-turned-filmmaker Ana Asensio writes, directs and stars in this creepy suspense thriller about the immigrant experience.Read More
VOD film review: In Bruges
December 1, 2017 | David FarnorMartin McDonagh’s darkly funny crime thriller is warped entertainment of the highest order. Read More
Netflix UK film review: Johnny Guitar
November 28, 2017 | Benedict SealDirector: Nicholas Ray Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge Certificate: PG Watch Johnny Guitar online in the UK: Netflix UK
A favourite of French New Wave icon François Truffaut, Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray’s visually striking, female-headed western, confounded … Read More
VOD film review: In a Valley of Violence
November 27, 2017 | David FarnorTi West tackles the Western with entertaining, if uneven, results.Read More
VOD film review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
November 27, 2017 | Mark HarrisonLuc Besson’s vibrant, miscast space opera is very weird and not quite as wonderful.Read More
VOD film review: The Keeping Room
November 26, 2017 | David FarnorThis thrilling tale of female survival at the end of the Civil War is a gripping revision of the Western genre.Read More
VOD film review: Brakes
November 25, 2017 | David FarnorAn excellent cast brings a dark honesty to this low-budget anti-rom-com.Read More