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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
North (1994) Lawrie Zion Right from its opening moments, this "high concept" comedy seems rudderless and hopelessly adrift.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Paul Kalina Neither director Rob Reiner, nor the impressive cast, can rescue the limp and thinly-written script.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Dumb & Dumber (1994) Paul Kalina The plot sustains a series of scatological and sight-gags, some endearingly "dumb" humor, and provides a vehicle for Carrey's impressive talents in knockabout physical humor.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jim Murphy Gruesome but riveting.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Jim Murphy It will tickle your funnybone as well as whiten your knuckles.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Neil Jillett Bates, keeping caricature within almost plausible limits, is wonderfully funny and threatening as the unpredictable Annie.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Barbara Creed The American President works extremely well as a romantic comedy, but it falters badly when it attempts to merge the romance with politics.... Even Frank Capra would have choked on his jaffas.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway (2025) Craig Mathieson It’s obviously stage-bound, but nonetheless sharp in content and execution.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Rip (2026) Craig Mathieson The strewn breadcrumbs are very large, leaving little space for the fetid contemplation a great police corruption thriller needs. Sentimentality should never win out.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Bruce Grant Director Robert Wise has kept the proceedings on an entertaining level.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Colin Bennett It's a bullet worth biting.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Jake Wilson ...the messiness is partly what makes The Bone Temple worth seeing – and with at least one more chapter on the way, there’s happily no way of predicting where the story might lurch next.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (1960) Colin Bennett John Sturges has a fine eye for visually dramatic effects in colored CinemaScope, and the romantic-heroic image is well conveyed.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Age Staff It has a strong plot and the heavy brooding mood of suspense imparted.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Neil Jillett Superb ensemble work by its four young stars rarely masks the fact that "Stand By Me" is a wetly self-conscious little movie.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
A Place in the Sun (1951) Bruce Grant A Place in the Sun is a love story which carries no social challenge. As such, it is one of the most exciting films America has given us.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Trap House (2025) Craig Mathieson Bautista gives his all, but the same cannot be said for Bobby Cannavale as Ray’s partner, Andre Washburn. His performance is boilerplate.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
A Few Good Men (1992) Tom Ryan For its director, 'A Few Good Men' is "just a damned good old-fashioned courtroom drama", and it certainly has some pleasures to offer. The pity is that they're all surface ones...
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Bruce Grant Any resemblance to John Tenniel's illustrations seem accidental. The film, however, was not made for lovers of Carroll, but for lovers of Disney. These will not be disappointed.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Erle Cox (The Chiel) As an effort at wholesale bloodshed the film is unsurpassed.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Time Guardian (1987) Neil Jillett This Australian farrago, with American mini-stars Carrie Fisher and Dean Stockwell clumsily grated on to it, has an incomprehensible plot.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Neil Jillett This is a lively, genial film that never pushes its fun too hard. It provides excitement without nastiness, vigor without vicious violence.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Neil Jillett [Rob Reiner] pushes this film along with an energetic confidence that gives an audience little time to ponder the improbabilities and ambiguities before another lively clash of characters comes along.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Age Staff Apart from the national significance of the picture as the present time, Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a first-class specimen of mystery drama, and is superbly acted by a well selected cast.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Goodbye June (2025) Craig Mathieson It’s a story open to the syrupy and the sentimental, and it can’t quite escape the formulaic, despite an overqualified supporting cast...giving their all to the reconciliation dynamic underpinning the plot.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Shiva Baby (2020) Craig Mathieson The independent film is deeply funny, but plays like a thriller – you never know when Danielle might snap. Sennott is terrific, with reactions that are revelatory.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025) Craig Mathieson Sometimes, the dialogue he recounts has a sitcom banter to it, but the laughs have a genuine persistence.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Ricky Gervais: Mortality (2025) Ben Pobjie Mortality is at its best when Gervais isn’t elaborating philosophies, but relaxing into conversational style, albeit a more foul-mouthed and impolite conversation than you might be used to.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Great Flood (2025) Craig Mathieson Kim Byung-woo’s film doesn’t relent, but its unexpected plot twists are not fully satisfying.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Murder in Monaco (2025) Craig Mathieson The narrative’s entertaining momentum is vivid and eventually uncertain – Usry finishes by reconsidering all he’s presented.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke (2025) Lenny Ann Low Clarke was a fairly private person, but here Lorin, and her dad, reveal the personal forces that shaped his ability to corral silliness and wit as an everyman figure while exposing the innards of political, economic and social flimflam.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) Neil Jillett Compared with many films around at the moment, this comedy shows some imagination and is mildly entertaining.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Bloodlust (1992) Neil Jillett The swings in style, from deadpan to contemporary Gothic, are more inept than funny.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Hook (1991) Neil Jillett Hook lacks fun and tension (the reliance on John Williams's bombastic score is another give-away that Spielberg knows everything is going wrong). The film staggers along and regularly comes to a complete stop.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Bruce Kaplan The film packs about as much as tension as a blancmange.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Neil Jillett It is hard to feel any interest in the fate of people who, you suspect, will be hauled out of unexciting predicaments by supernatural forces.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
True Lies (1994) Tom Ryan A slick but shallow mix of espionage adventure and romantic comedy.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Neil Jillett [James Cameron's] screenplay...is confusingly plotted, despite the skinniness and unoriginality of its ideas.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Terminator (1984) Jim Schembri Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast as a "cyborg"... It is also a remarkable achievement that the film gets the audience to take its bizarre premise seriously.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Good Boy (2025) Craig Mathieson Is it nepotism when a film’s director casts his dog in the lead role? Thankfully, it works in this high-concept supernatural thriller...
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Bump: A Christmas Film (2025) Craig Mathieson The movie has a posthumous, pleasurable energy, worthy of a tale where chaos and comfort were everyday realities.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (2025) Craig Mathieson It tries to squeeze too much into 50 minutes, but it’s genuine where it matters.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Sandra Hall It’s a little too serpentine, spun out with so many twists that the film seems longer than it should, but retains enough of the charms that made the original such a hit to please the fans.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
A Christmas Carol (1984) Brian Courtis I thought this unambitious but novel adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' was generally handled rather well.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Peeper (1975) Colin Bennett Quite early on, the endless weak plot complications and soon become a heavy millstone around its neck.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Love+War (2025) Craig Mathieson Ultimately, the good outweighs the makeweight, especially as Addario is a striking personality with a history intertwined through too many of this century’s wars.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Playdate (2025) Craig Mathieson The final act loses steam, but there’s comic lunacy here worthy of MacGruber.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) Colin Bennett No myth-making magic here.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Wedding Banquet (2025) Craig Mathieson When you’re remaking a film as good as Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy,...the best you can hope for is a timely update that has its own tenor. Transposed from New York City to Seattle, Andrew Ahn’s film mostly achieves those benchmarks.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Hedda (2025) Craig Mathieson The machinations, like the camera’s movement, are elegant.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
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