Movies
Reviews of films available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
VOD film review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
November 27, 2017 | Mark Harrison
Luc 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 Farnor
This 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 Farnor
An excellent cast brings a dark honesty to this low-budget anti-rom-com.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972)
November 24, 2017 | Anton Bitel
Sergio Martino’s gothic giallo oddity is as much a whatisit as a whodunnit.Read More
VOD film review: Beach Rats
November 24, 2017 | Matthew Turner
British actor Harris Dickinson makes a terrific debut in this sensitive study of sexual exploration and denial.Read More
VOD film review: The Hitman’s Bodyguard
November 22, 2017 | David Farnor
The chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson elevates this familiar action comedy.Read More
VOD film review: The Big Sick
November 19, 2017 | Luke Channell
Funny, moving and sharply written, The Big Sick is a film you’ll never get tired of.Read More
Superhero Sundays: Justice League – The New Frontier (2008)
November 19, 2017 | Matthew Turner
Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman meet Green Lantern, The Flash and Martian Manhunter in this successful, entertaining adaptation of Darwyn Cooke’s comics.Read More
VOD film review: Good Time
November 18, 2017 | David Farnor
Robert Pattinson is magnetic in this gripping, visceral and thrillingly unpredictable ride.Read More
Netflix’s Mudbound: A marvellous, weighty piece of cinema
November 17, 2017 | David Farnor
Period tales rarely feel so relevant as this marvellous, weighty piece of filmmaking, which offers a rallying cry for empathy.Read More
