Movies
Reviews of films available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
VOD film review: Taming the Garden
January 28, 2022 | David Farnor
This documentary about a powerful man’s quest to assemble a private garden of rare trees is a jaw-dropping portrait of power exploiting people and nature.Read More
Time Travel Thursday: Deja Vu (2006)
January 27, 2022 | Matthew Turner
Denzel Washington’s agent tracks a terrorist with surveillance equipment that can see through time in this big, dumb, fun sci-fi thriller.Read More
VOD film review: There Will Be No More Night
January 25, 2022 | Cathy Brennan
This documentary about attack helicopter footage fails to interrogate its subject.Read More
VOD film review: The Midnight Swim (2014)
January 25, 2022 | Anton Bitel
Sarah Adina Smith’s rewarding feature debut is a poetic mystery of motherhood, mortality and metempsychosis.Read More
VOD film review: Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020)
January 24, 2022 | Anton Bitel
Video games and reality collide in this cheap and cheerful nostalgia-fest.Read More
VOD film review: TiMER (2009)
January 23, 2022 | Brendon Connelly
A clever, entertaining sci-fi rom-com, Jac Schaeffer’s directorial debut is a hidden cult hit ready to surprise WandaVision fans. Read More
VOD film review: A Hero (2021)
January 23, 2022 | David Farnor
Asghar Farhadi’s shrewd sympathy-twister is stacked with slow-burn suspense.Read More
VOD film review: Mass (2021)
January 23, 2022 | David Farnor
This four-handed discussion of guilt, blame and forgiveness is an intensely moving chamber piece, impeccably performed.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Come Sunday
January 22, 2022 | David Farnor
Chiwetel Ejiofor shines in this muted, absorbing study of faith, doubt and the conflicted nuances in between.Read More
VOD film review: Memory Box (2022)
January 22, 2022 | Matthew Turner
Three generations of women are connected by the arrival of a memory box in this touching, evocative drama.Read More
