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.
UK TV review: Help (2021)
October 9, 2021 | David Farnor
Stephen Graham and Jodie Comer are on powerful form in Jack Thorne’s hugely moving drama about a care home at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More
Why Vigil should be your next box set
October 8, 2021 | David Farnor
This pressurised pulpy thriller is a grippingly claustrophobic watch.Read More
VOD film review: Jane Eyre (2011)
October 7, 2021 | David Farnor
Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are a perfect match in Cary Fukunaga’s atmospheric adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic romance.Read More
UK TV review: Billions Season 5, Part 2
October 7, 2021 | David Farnor
Damian Lewis shines in this thrilling, surprise turning point for the slick financial thriller.Read More
UK TV review: The Walking Dead Season 11, Episode 7 (Promises Broken)
October 5, 2021 | Neil Brazier
Divides open up as The Walking Dead’s final season powers towards the end of part one.Read More
VOD film review: Road to Perdition
October 4, 2021 | David Farnor
Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig and Paul Newman are sublime in Sam Mendes’ brooding yet beautiful moral tale of fathers and sons.Read More
VOD film review: Next Door (2021)
October 4, 2021 | David Farnor
Daniel Brühl stars and directs in this playful, spiky two-hander.Read More
VOD film review: Bad Candy
October 4, 2021 | Anton Bitel
In Scott B Hansen & Desiree Connell’s hilarious Halloween anthology, two DJs conjure a paradoxical world of small-town myth that bites back.Read More
VOD film review: Freshman Year
October 3, 2021 | David Farnor
University expectations are sharply skewered in this uneven but promising debut.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Diana: The Musical
October 3, 2021 | David Farnor
This stupefyingly bad Broadway musical turns Princess Diana’s life and death into gob-smackingly shallow spectacle.Read More
