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Awais Irfan

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Biography:

Awais Irfan is a Scottish-born film and TV writer now based in London. He has been reviewing films since 2013, when he was just 15 years old, and has a cultivated a diverse portfolio of features, reviews, and interviews as well as film festival coverage from Cannes, Venice, New York, London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3/5 EDIT “For Good won’t convince the naysayers, but for the fans, it’s more time spent in the world of Oz… and that’s not such a bad thing.” – The Hollywood News Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Roofman is worth seeing in spite of the absurdity of the true story: it's one of kindness, heart, and a real testament to the human spirit. This is storytelling of old; this is cinema for the soul.” – FILMHOUNDS Magazine Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Not all of the ideas coalesce, but Bugonia is Yorgos Lanthimos at his most thoughtful and thematically ambitious – and it has a great deal of fun in the process.” – Screensphere Nov 20, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% 1/5 EDIT “The Disney-ifcation of a world notoriously bristling with style and thematic edge is tragic to see; it’s ironic, then, that a film so intrinsically about AI feels so woefully manufactured by AI. Not even Nine Inch Nails can redeem this.” – The Hollywood News Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% 4/5 EDIT “What does it take to be the best? The Smashing Machine is as much the answer as it is the name Kerr came to be known by: it’s a wrecking ball to one’s self, an insatiable appetite that quite literally destroys and smashes until there is nothing left.” – The Hollywood News Oct 10, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “It’s very clear, as it’s all unfolding on (if you’re lucky) gorgeous VistaVision, that this is one of the major works from one of the all-time greats: the kind of film whose impact will be felt long after the credits roll.” – The Hollywood News Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 4/5 EDIT “Gladiator 2 is a good time at the movies and that’s something of a lost art these days. Mescal’s turn is more vengeful than Crowe’s but the rage and physicality of the performance quickly cements his leading man status.” – The Hollywood News Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “It’s scuzzy and rough-around-the-edges and never makes a fully cohesive whole that rises above the sum of its parts, but Caught Stealing is propulsive and thrilling in its pockets and a riotous time at the movies nonetheless.” – The Hollywood News Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Flight Risk (2025) 29% 2/5 EDIT “But the direction is bland and with a script that doesn’t offer much, Flight Risk is perhaps not the successful takeoff Mel Gibson was looking for. It’s a pretty disastrous crash landing.” – The Hollywood News Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 46% 3/5 EDIT “Director Julius Onah’s action is slick and Red Hulk, as minimally as he is used, proves a fun foil to Cap in the film’s concluding moments. It’s enjoyable but, this many years into the MCU, audiences deserve more.” – The Hollywood News Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Warfare is an experience: a blood-curdling, bone-shakingly intense one at that, throwing you right into the depths of hell with these men. Their guttural screams will linger long after the credits roll.” – The Hollywood News Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “A shaggy, soulful espionage thriller about people finding the good in themselves and each other and coming together to save the day, this is a step in the right direction that promises exciting things to come. Simply put: it’s the MCU’s best in years. ” – The Hollywood News Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 4/5 EDIT “The Final Reckoning ties together the last thirty years of Mission in expectedly (and fittingly) big, messy, sprawling, showstopping fashion. If this is indeed the end for Hunt and his team, they’ve lit the fuse and gone out with a bang.” – The Hollywood News Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Lilo & Stitch (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “Lilo & Stitch (2025) isn’t as good as the original. It’s shaggier and messier, and feels redundant. Why does it exist, if not to add anything to what came before? It’s lesser than the sum of its parts. Despite this, though, Stitch still endures. ” – FILMHOUNDS Magazine Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 52% 2/5 EDIT “Despite a few fun moments and solid kills, Death of a Unicorn lacks the thematic and emotional bite this story needs. Maybe Scharfman got too excited by the promise of unicorns. And perhaps this would have been better served as a short film.” – Movie Marker Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Elio (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “It’s Pixar at its best: weird, wonderful, and emotional storytelling about our very humanity through grandiose, high-concept animated adventures. Elio is about embracing ourselves. We are not alone. And yet again, Pixar is there to show us the way.” – The Hollywood News Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Karate Kid: Legends (2025) 58% 3/5 EDIT “Like Li Fong (Ben Wang) himself, Karate Kid: Legends has the rugged spirit of a champion. It's scrappy, rough around the edges, but it fights like hell and makes its punches count. And in karate, that's what matters most.” – FILMHOUNDS Magazine Jul 23, 2025 Full Review How to Train Your Dragon (2025) 77% 5/5 EDIT “Most live-action adaptations lack the awe-inspired glint of their predecessors. With How to Train Your Dragon, however, it’s every bit as soulful and magical as the original and takes Hiccup and Toothless’ first flight to all new heights.” – Screensphere Jul 23, 2025 Full Review
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