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.
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
WandaVision: The TV show most in tune with the Covid-19 pandemic
January 23, 2022 | David Farnor
Warning: This contains spoilers for WandaVision. Not seen it? Read our spoiler-free review here.
“It can’t all be sorrow, can it?” asks Vision (Paul Bettany), as he talks to Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) on the set of WandaVision. By this point, … 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
Classic Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones and Fury from the Deep
January 23, 2022 | Mark Harrison
Offering more than 600 Classic Doctor Who episodes broadcast between 1963 and 1996, BritBox and BBC iPlayer’s The Whoniverse are bigger on the inside. If you’ve watched all of the new series already, then why not join us as we … 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
