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: Casablanca Beats
April 30, 2022 | Matthew TurnerFiction and documentary are blurred in this engaging musical drama about hip hop students and their teacher.Read More
UK TV review: Undone Season 2
April 29, 2022 | Katherine McLaughlinThis moving, beautifully animated drama explores grief, regret, acceptance and abandonment with haunting intensity.Read More
VOD film review: The Velvet Queen
April 29, 2022 | David FarnorThis understated quest to photograph an elusive snow leopard in Tibet is a thoughtful, spellbinding ode to nature.Read More
Time Travel Thursday: The Final Countdown (1980)
April 28, 2022 | Matthew TurnerKirk Douglas and Martin Sheen headline this disappointing thriller about a modern-day Navy warship getting transported to Pearl Harbour in 1941.Read More
Catch up TV: Brooklyn Nine-Nine S8, Comedians Giving Lectures S3, Romeo & Duet
April 27, 2022 | David FarnorWhat’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.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 8 (All 4)
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VOD film review: Uncharted
April 27, 2022 | Laurence BoyceThis action-packed video game adaptation is a familiar but diverting ride.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
April 26, 2022 | Helen ArcherThis lightly amusing life insurance fraud drama is a quintessentially British retelling of a quintessentially inept British crime.Read More
Russian Doll Season 2 review: A wild ride
April 26, 2022 | Sophie DaviesThe second season of Natasha Lyonne’s stunning, ambitious time-bending series is just as inventive and compelling as the first.Read More
VOD film review: The Souvenir: Part II
April 25, 2022 | Charlotte HarrisonJoanna Hogg’s raw, self-reflective exploration of processing trauma is a creative tribute to the transformative power of cinema.Read More
VOD film review: Held
April 25, 2022 | Anton BitelTravis Cluff and Chris Lofing’s entrapment thriller stages manipulative scenes from a marriage under patriarchy.Read More
















