In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much more…
Film Review - NT Live: Prima Facie
Prima Facie is a play that refuses to be taken at face value.
Film Review - The Origin of Evil
For those of you who are pro lesbian rights and pro lesbian wrongs, The Origin of Evil is the perfect Friday night French flick with all the lesbians, major plot twists, and tea you need!
Film Review - Sick of Myself
From the producers behind The Worst Person In the World, comes one of the best features in the world… about the ACTUAL worst person in the world.
Film Review - Everybody Loves Jeanne
The 2023 Winner of the Online Film Critics Society Awards for the Best Non-U.S. Release, it’s clear that Everybody Loves Jeanne is winning hearts around the world!
Film Review - Sisu
Offering up a gold rush of entertaining action and ridiculous predicaments for its masochistically macho protagonist to fight through, Sisu mostly sticks the landing in delivering a satisfying and fist-pumping cinematic experience.
Film Review - Alcarràs
Alcarràs is a moving piece of cinema that will quietly consume you for its two-hour runtime with feelings of awe, anticipation, some chuckles, and empathy for the farmers that put fruit into our homes.
Film Review - Talk to Me
Talk to Me is another solid addition in the outback horror canon - a beating heart, pumping with fresh blood.
Spanish Film Festival Review - Two Many Chefs
Two Many Chefs (2022) is Joaquín Mazón’s new comedy film that has heart but loses its edge with repetitive jokes and lazy storytelling.
Film Review - Marlowe
You’d be hard-pressed to say that its intended audience of older, weekday-matinee filmgoers won’t be satisfied by watching a canonised movie star like Neeson doing his thing as a 1930’s detective. Just don’t expect to be wowed by its stunning execution or originality.
Film Review - The Blue Caftan
This film, meditative and delicate in its portrayal of two queer men in a muslim country, is important for people being pushed to the margins by ideology that is outdated and homophobic and is therefore an important moment in African cinema, not to be missed.
Film Review - EO
EO is a bold and bray-ve exploration of modern Europe through the eyes of a circus donkey who embarks on a long and lonely journey.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - Beaten to Death
Beaten to Death is an uncompromising and particularly nasty slice of Ozploitation that mostly delivers on the bluntness of its title, with a few neat cinematic tricks up its sleeve.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - The Outwaters
The Outwaters is a found-footage horror film that takes the genre to new extremes of experimentation.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - Zillion
Zillion tells the story of the exhilarating rise and fall of visionary entrepreneur Frank Verstraeten, the man responsible for creating and owning – for a time – Belgium’s most chaotically electric nightclub.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - Quantum Cowboys
Quantum Cowboys is a bold expedition into the Wild West, the mind-boggling multiverse, and the very capacity and parameters of the cinematic form itself.
Film Review - Pearl
If you’re a fan of Pearl’s previous instalment X and expect it to have the same gritty, slasher, exploitation elements to the story, then you may have to limit your expectations for this film.
Film Review - Living
Oliver Hermanus’ Living is a film that doesn’t ask for much. It simply wants the audience to observe.
Film Review - To Leslie
To Leslie is a very old-fashioned human drama; a straightforward character study with modest ambitions and a complete disinterest in modern trappings of spectacle, metacommentary, or narrative obfuscation.
Film Review - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All the Beauty is this wonderful study of the marginal, of someone with a heart uncorroded by time in the halls of power, who leverages the success of their life’s work to take on a pure, irredeemable evil.
Film Review - Empire of Light
Despite Ward and Colman’s impressive performances, and some beautiful Roger Deakins cinematography, Empire of Light is unfortunately weighed down by a messy screenplay that can’t untangle itself before the credits.