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.
VOD film review: Undergods
May 23, 2021 | Laurence Boyce
This promising directorial debut is a darkly exhilarating, uneasy anthology of bleak dystopian fairy tales.Read More
Dawn of the Dead: Looking back at Zack Snyder’s feature debut
May 22, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Zack Snyder’s debut feature reimagines Romero as a visceral, amped-up apocalypse in the shadow of 9/11.Read More
VOD film review: The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet
May 22, 2021 | Cathy Brennan
Ana Katz’s beautiful absurdist drama deftly weaves humour and apocalyptic anxiety.Read More
Army of the Dead: Brazenly entertaining
May 21, 2021 | David Farnor
Zack Snyder’s zombie heist flick is a brazenly entertaining ride.Read More
VOD film review: P!nk: All I Know So Far
May 21, 2021 | Bianca Garner
This fly-on-the-wall music documentary is stylish but shows little beneath the surface.Read More
MUBI UK film review: State Funeral
May 21, 2021 | Daniel Broadley
Sergei Loznitsa chronicles the lavish state funeral of Joseph Stalin in this fascinating but lengthy documentary.Read More
VOD film review: Rare Beasts
May 21, 2021 | David Farnor
Billie Piper’s superbly observed comedy is vivid, dark and wonderfully honest.Read More
National Theatre at Home review: Julius Caesar (Bridge Theatre)
May 20, 2021 | David Farnor
This innovative, immersive take on Shakespeare’s timely political tragedy is mesmerising theatre.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Psycho Goreman
May 20, 2021 | Anton Bitel
Reducing the fate of the universe to child’s play, Steven Kostanski’s super-bloody lo-fi sci-fi pastiche is impossibly charming.Read More
Stand-up comedy review: Nish Kumar: Ruminations on the Nature of Subjectivity
May 19, 2021 | David Farnor
Whenever someone on Twitter asks people to name a comedian they don’t find funny, there’s one name that inexplicably crops up at the top of the list: Nish Kunar. It’s not inexplicable because the racial prejudice that fuels this wall … Read More
