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Channel24 (South Africa) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Gabi Zietsman, Grethe Kemp, Ilan Preskovsky, Phumlani S Langa, Rhodé Marshall.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Ilan Preskovsky Throw in a couple of beloved actors in the lead roles and fun supporting turns by Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and it really should have been something special rather than what it is: a likeable, admirably ambitious, but deeply flawed oddity.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Ilan Preskovsky “Comfortable” is probably not the word one would want to associate with horror, but it’s as much a feature as it is a bug in this “final” Conjuring movie.
Posted Sep 07, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Together (2025) Ilan Preskovsky It has some impressively gnarly body-horror set pieces and large dollops of appropriately pitch-black humour, but its genre trappings are very much in service of the relationship drama and character exploration at the heart of the film.
Posted Aug 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Superman (2025) Ilan Preskovsky At a time when it feels like we need the symbolism of Superman more than ever – that beautiful fairy tale of someone with incredible power who only wants to use that power for good - the real deal has, at last, returned to our big screens.
Posted Jul 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
F1 The Movie (2025) Ilan Preskovsky For a souped-up car commercial, it’s a far better movie than it has any right to be. Furthermore, the fact that it was made in close collaboration with the FIA means that the whole thing has an air of real authenticity about it.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Ballerina (2025) Ilan Preskovsky There is a lot of pleasure to be had in watching one of the most beautiful women on the planet beating the snot out of a succession of faceless baddies. More surprising is how good a job it does of carving its own little place in this absurd world.
Posted Jun 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Life of Chuck (2024) Ilan Preskovsky The sentimentality, the forced narrative leaps, the simple messaging quickly become “features” when you realize what this film actually is and what it’s trying to do...it is as much a fairytale as something like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Posted Jun 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Karate Kid: Legends (2025) Ilan Preskovsky There’s just no getting around it, Karate Kid: Legends is a complete and utter mess that gets by almost entirely on the considerable charm of its cast and a general easygoing warmth and sweet nature that’s hard to deny.
Posted May 31, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Ilan Preskovsky It may be one of the weaker entries in a series that includes at least three of the greatest films ever made within its genre, but it still leaves 99.99% of other films in that genre in its dust.
Posted May 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sinners (2025) Ilan Preskovsky There are many, many reasons to like Sinners – which is, for my money, Coogler’s very best film to date – but first among them is the way the film careens through several wildly different genres and somehow still comes out of it as a cohesive whole.
Posted Apr 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Mickey 17 (2025) Ilan Preskovsky Still, even if Mickey 17 fails to engage the brain anywhere near as much as something that is clearly poised to be "intelligent sci-fi" should do, it's still a well-made, entertaining, funny and ultimately warm-hearted romp.
Posted Mar 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Monkey (2025) Ilan Preskovsky The Monkey is not a horror movie. I don’t believe for a second that any of it is supposed to be even remotely scary. [It's] an utterly deranged, absurdist existential-comedy with a very sick and twisted sense of humour. And I loved every minute of it.
Posted Mar 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Brutalist (2024) Ilan Preskovsky The Brutalist and its main character are basically fictional, but the result is as authentic as any biopic of a real-life person. By not being limited to facts, Corbet has the freedom to really dig into the truths at the heart of his film.
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Anora (2024) Ilan Preskovsky Anora does touch on Big Themes like class warfare and female empowerment, but first and foremost, it's a genre-bending mix of screwball comedy, unlikely romance, thriller and character-drama that keeps the pace up and the laughs coming throughout.
Posted Feb 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A Complete Unknown (2024) Ilan Preskovsky Portrayed with eerie accuracy by Timothée Chalamet, who has arguably never been better, the Dylan of A Complete Unknown may not be completely unknown, but he absolutely lives up to the word most frequently associated with his general nature: mercurial.
Posted Jan 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Kraven the Hunter (2024) Ilan Preskovsky It's why, for all that Kraven: The Hunter really isn't anywhere near as bad as its reputation already suggests and is certainly a step up from something like Madame Web and Morbius, it still has no real reason to exist.
Posted Dec 24, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Carry-On (2024) Ilan Preskovsky Any idiot can make this sort of film, but considering how bad, not to mention boring, most of them are, it's no small feat to make one that is genuinely thrilling, genuinely suspenseful, and genuinely fun.
Posted Dec 24, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Gladiator II (2024) Ilan Preskovsky Washington is brilliant even in films that are undeserving of his talent, but even if he is the best thing about Gladiator II, the film itself more than lives up to his almost unparalleled star quality.
Posted Nov 16, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Magpie (2024) Ilan Preskovsky It's a rocky, windy, sometimes frustrating road to get there, but it's the sort of ending that justifies an entire film. Whatever reservations I may have had throughout Magpie's previous 85 minutes, had all but vanished as the credits rolled.
Posted Nov 10, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Conclave (2024) Ilan Preskovsky Aside from a final twist that is, arguably, one twist too far, the plot is as fully believable as its vividly drawn characters. Conclave is authentic, in other words, but it's also immensely satisfying as both a character drama and a twisty thriller.
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Venom: The Last Dance (2024) Ilan Preskovsky As Last Dances go, then, it's less an impeccably choreographed waltz than a bizarre bit of freestyle where the most fun part is watching the dancer fall all over himself. Which is not without its appeal, but it's not enough to sustain it for two hours.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Ilan Preskovsky There's a thin line between complex and confused and Joker: Folie à Deux never gets a handle on that line, leaving the impression of a film with something to say but is either not sure of what that something is or how, exactly, to say it.
Posted Oct 07, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) Ilan Preskovsky Unfortunately, Mignola’s weaknesses as a writer shine through and more than any of the shoddy CGI or often less-than-impressive acting, any potential the film had was ultimately squandered on an unengaging plot, leaden pacing and a very one-note villain.
Posted Oct 02, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Gabi Zietsman The film may focus on Indiana feeling out of place in the modern world, yet The Dial of Destiny avoids becoming a cynical finger-wagging at everything wrong with the world today.
Posted Sep 26, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Ilan Preskovsky Everything about Kinds of Kindness is carefully honed to be as alienating as possible. It's grotesque. It's incredibly strange. It's very slow and very long. But more than anything, it just begs not to be "enjoyed" in any conventional sense of the word.
Posted Sep 16, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
The Crow (2024) Ilan Preskovsky This "Batman Begins" approach to the Crow simply doesn't do the source material justice and makes for a film that is sorely lacking in both depth and a sense of fun...Something this silly, simply shouldn't be this portentous and this dour.
Posted Aug 26, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Alien: Romulus (2024) Ilan Preskovsky The problem is that however good Alien: Romulus is at recapturing much of the spirit of the original film, it's also so slavishly devoted to it that it ends up missing one key ingredient that made Alien such an event in the first place: originality.
Posted Aug 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Ilan Preskovsky This film was made by fans for fans, and it is entirely unapologetic about that...if Deadpool broke the fourth wall in his two previous cinematic outings, he sets an atomic bomb beneath it in Deadpool & Wolverine. "Meta" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Posted Jul 26, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Twisters (2024) Ilan Preskovsky But thrilling set pieces alone do not make for a great summer blockbuster. You have to actually care about the characters involved in those set pieces for them to land. And Twisters wisely keeps its characters very much front and centre.
Posted Jul 15, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) Ilan Preskovsky A Quiet Place: Day One is a terrible film. Certainly, it's much better than most prequels, not least because it doesn't take away from the original films. But it does fall massively short of both the standards set by the series and of its own ambitions.
Posted Jun 30, 2024  Edit critic review
1/5
The Watchers (2024) Ilan Preskovsky I don't know how she did it, but Shyamalan Jr. managed to exactly replicate the worst of Shyamalan Sr.'s stilted, unnatural dialogue to a tee and mix it in with people who resolutely refuse to act like actual human beings.
Posted Jun 22, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Ilan Preskovsky It's amazing what a difference a sympathetic, engaging protagonist makes. Furiosa may be an objectively weaker film than its predecessor, but it's a much more enjoyable and satisfying experience overall.
Posted Jun 22, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5
Girl You Know It's True (2023) Ilan Preskovsky And to be fair, Verhoeven is very successful at making us care about this group of con artists. You may leave the cinema still thinking of Milli Vanilli as a sad joke, but at least a sad joke that is actually funny and actually sad.
Posted Jun 22, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Boy Kills World (2023) Ilan Preskovsky Sometimes, a colourful, violent, pop-culture-savvy revenge flick is just a colourful, violent, pop-culture-savvy revenge flick. And that's OK. Especially when it's as funny, demented and joyfully silly as Boy Kills World so demonstrably is.
Posted May 05, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Civil War (2024) Ilan Preskovsky Why set a film amid a second American Civil War if you're not going to make use of its setting... Why make a piece of speculative fiction if you're not going to use it to, you know, speculate?
Posted Apr 18, 2024  Edit critic review
1/5
Asphalt City (2023) Ilan Preskovsky It's all just so grossly misjudged. By indulging so heavily in its unyielding misery, Sauvaire and Co only end up dehumanising those they are trying to celebrate and alienating anyone who tries to put themselves through it.
Posted Apr 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Ilan Preskovsky It's monumentally stupid, with terrible dialogue, phoned in performances, weightless CGI, and all the fidelity to physics of a Loony Toons cartoon. It's also a total blast and easily the best MonsterVerse film outside of maybe Kong: Skull Island!
Posted Apr 04, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Miller's Girl (2024) Ilan Preskovsky Miller's Girl, in the end, feels exactly like what it is: a first attempt. It's ambitious, and it has good, even great things about it, but as a school report might put it, it (and its creator) shows promise but is just not quite there yet.
Posted Feb 26, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Madame Web (2024) Ilan Preskovsky So, no, Madame Web is nowhere near as terrible as you've heard, but there's only so much that a good premise and a great cast can do with this bad of a script.
Posted Feb 17, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Beekeeper (2024) Ilan Preskovsky If all you want is the 'Stath' doing his thing, the film basically delivers, but if the hope is for this to do for the 'Stath' what John Wick did for Keanu or Mission Impossible did for Tom Cruise, it's a failure and a rather lame one at that.
Posted Jan 30, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
Poor Things (2023) Ilan Preskovsky For all that I loved every second of this mad, beautiful, hilarious, moving and original cinematic masterpiece, I don't for a second think that everyone else will agree.
Posted Jan 21, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Ferrari (2023) Ilan Preskovsky As it stands, Ferrari is a real missed opportunity with enough genuinely great elements to highlight just how much of a missed opportunity it really is.
Posted Jan 03, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) Ilan Preskovsky Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is not a good movie, but as a standalone encapsulation of so much that was both wrong and sometimes right about the DC Extended Universe, it could hardly be a more fitting end to the whole enterprise.
Posted Dec 23, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Napoleon (2023) Ilan Preskovsky However well-staged the various battles are, this aspect of his story amounts to not much more than a superficial skip through decades of history that had me joining Napoleon himself in wishing that we were back at home with Josephine instead.
Posted Nov 26, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
The Killer (2023) Ilan Preskovsky It may be a far cry from Fincher heavyweights like Se7en, Fight Club and Gone Girl), but considering how bleak and serious so many of his movies are, the pulpy feel of The Killer makes it a welcome addition to his catalogue.
Posted Nov 21, 2023  Edit critic review
1/5
The Exorcist: Believer (2023) Ilan Preskovsky Never mind that it's all but impossible to figure out just what the film is trying to say with the exorcism, but it is so thoroughly devoid of any internal logic or basic storytelling competence that I can't explain what happened even if I wanted to.
Posted Oct 12, 2023  Edit critic review
5/5
Past Lives (2023) Ilan Preskovsky Its greatness doesn't so much immediately grab you by the throat but worms its way into your affections more and more with each passing scene, building and building until it becomes impossible to deny in its note-perfect final act.
Posted Sep 23, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
The Equalizer 3 (2023) Ilan Preskovsky But what works about the film isn't the way the revenge plot amps up by having the baddies become more and more deserving of their fates, but the simple pleasures of watching McCall hanging out with the local residents of this lovely little Italian town.
Posted Sep 01, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
The Equalizer 2 (2018) Ilan Preskovsky Those random bits of setup that are thrown into the early parts of the film feel almost entirely gratuitous and do nothing but distract from what’s going on around them, but they actually get far more irritating once they start to pay off.
Posted Aug 31, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
The Equalizer (2014) Ilan Preskovsky The film would collapse under its own preposterousness, not to mention its absurdly bloated running time (b-movies should not be 130 minutes long, under any circumstance) had it not had, at its centre, one of the best leading men in the business.
Posted Aug 31, 2023  Edit critic review
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