Movies
Reviews of films available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
VOD film review: Sunset Boulevard
November 10, 2019 | David Farnor
Part-satire, part-film noir, part-melodrama and part-inside joke, Billy Wilder’s delicious takedown of Hollywood is a timeless affair.Read More
VOD film review: Apollo 11
November 10, 2019 | Ivan Radford
This masterful retelling of the moon landings using stunning archive footage is a soaring triumph of cinema.Read More
VOD film review: A Dog Called Money
November 10, 2019 | David Farnor
This detached, frustrating music documentary is awkwardly lacking in insight.Read More
VOD film review: LA Confidential
November 9, 2019 | David Farnor
Film noir gets the colour treatment in Curtis Hanson’s thrilling depiction of a city of corrupted angels.Read More
VOD film review: Extracurricular
November 9, 2019 | Mike Williams
This thriller about homicidal high-schoolers never quite lives up to its potential. Read More
VOD film review: Carancho
November 8, 2019 | David Farnor
Ricardo Darin shines in this hard-hitting Argentine noir.Read More
VOD film review: Meeting Gorbachev
November 8, 2019 | Matthew Turner
Werner Herzog meets former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in this engaging, if slightly restrained, documentary.Read More
The 90s On Netflix: Mars Attacks! (1996)
November 8, 2019 | Mark Harrison
Tim Burton splits the difference between Dr Strangelove and Plan 9 From Outer Space in this enjoyably weird comedy.Read More
Netflix UK film review: The Woman in the Window
November 4, 2019 | David Farnor
Edward G. Robinson is fantastic in Fritz Lang’s unfairly overlooked film noir.Read More
VOD film review: Resistance Fighters
November 3, 2019 | David Farnor
This alarming documentary shines an accessible but eye-opening spotlight on the globe’s growing antibiotic crisis.Read More
