The sheer joy of that formula, of this character, with every possible disadvantage stacked against him, saving the entire world through a motorbike cliff jump – that’s the magic of these movies.

Grab your popcorn folks, 'cos the Ezra express is about to hit the speed force.

Elemental shines is in its ability to gently guide you to realise the film’s crux yourself, and in the meantime, present you with vivid characters, fun antics and gorgeous animation along the way.

You Hurt My Feelings is all about the little lies we tell the people around us, not out of malicious intent, but in order to avoid a more destructive outcome.

The Boogeyman is a decent horror film that delivers on the prerequisite jumps and jolts, despite sometimes falling into the trappings that come with elaborating on succinct source material.

All-in-all, there have been ten stand-alone Spider-Man movies since 2002. They’ve all been pretty good, but Across the Spider-Verse is the most ambitious, most beautiful, and most satisfying one yet.

Rob Marshall’s The Little Mermaid truly feels like the culmination of Disney live-action remakes from the last few years. But this remake once again reminds us how unnecessary they are.

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.

Beau Is Afraid is far from a perfect cinema-going experience, but it's nevertheless a fascinating and original one.

I felt like I was losing my mamma mia-mind.

While The Pope's Exorcist won't be everyone's cup of tea, for horror fans willing to drop their guard a little bit and embrace a film that's more silly than scary, it's just good, dumb fun.

A true testament to the belief in one’s talent and potential, AIR celebrates the story of how some commonly unknown underdogs saw something in someone that led to one of the biggest and most profitable sportswear partnerships of all time – and it is an endlessly entertaining and enjoyable watch to boot.

The Outwaters is a found-footage horror film that takes the genre to new extremes of experimentation.

Lee Cronin's latest stab Evil Dead Rise carves out new horizons for the horror franchise, while still boasting enough of the strengths of what came before.

Story comes second and spectacle takes centre stage in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

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.

Like its predecessors, Chapter 4 indulges in its extravagance unapologetically and gives us some of the best action scenes not only in the franchise, but in cinema as a whole.

Fantastic Film Festival Australia is back in town, promising cinema without restraints.

We've gotten particularly nasty Ghostfaces two years in a row, but since their creator's passing, the actual films seem trapped in a creative rut, doomed to sacrifice the slick edge that the series was once celebrated for in service of broad appeal.

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.