Reviews
Reviews of movies and TV shows available to watch online on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime Instant Video, NOW TV, BBC iPlayer, iTunes, BFI Player and more.
Catch up TV reviews: Crazy Delicious, Meat the Family, Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency
January 26, 2020 | Ivan Radford
What’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5.
(For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best … Read More
VOD film review: The Goldfinch
January 26, 2020 | Bianca Garner
Rushed and watered down, The Goldfinch is a disappointing adaptation of a complex novel.Read More
Superhero Sundays: Superman vs the Elite (2012)
January 26, 2020 | Matthew Turner
The Man of Steel takes on a super-team who are prepared to kill in this action-packed and provocatively themed adventure.Read More
VOD film review: Hustlers
January 25, 2020 | Matthew Turner
Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu shine in this true crime drama about strippers turning the tables on their Wall St clients.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Sisters (1972)
January 24, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Sisters aren’t doing it for themselves in Brian De Palma’s sophisticated thriller of male abuse and manipulation.Read More
Star Trek: Picard: Boldly going to new, old frontiers
January 24, 2020 | Ivan Radford
“I came here to find safety, but one is never safe from the past.” Those are the words of Jean-Luc Picard, 18 years after we last saw him in action as the captain of the USS Starship Enterprise in the … Read More
UK TV Review: The Deuce Season 3
January 23, 2020 | Martyn Conterio
This low-key masterpiece of social history and humanism ends on a resounding high.Read More
First look UK TV review: Avenue 5
January 22, 2020 | Ivan Radford
Incompetence is the final frontier in Armando Iannucci’s laugh-out-loud space sitcom.Read More
UK TV review: Doctor Who Season 12 Episode 4 (Nikola Tesla’s Night Of Terror)
January 21, 2020 | Ivan Radford
This electrifying celeb-history adventure is an enjoyably old-fashioned piece of scientific fun.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Margaret Fleming
January 21, 2020 | Helen Archer
Director Matt Pinder’s previous work for BBC Scotland includes Murder Case: The Disappearance of Julie Reilly, a boldly sombre documentary which got underneath some grisly headlines to focus on the grief of a murder victim’s family, with remarkable access to … Read More
