Five Feet Apart a ten tissue weepie
Five Feet Apart wants its audience weeping ASAP and will stop at nothing to get eyeballs leaking. Brace yourself for major sniffles on the way.
Leigh Paatsch
What to watch this weekend
Free Solo features one of the great action scenes to hit the big screen and headlines the best new movies to stream. But there’s also something scary, a gritty police drama and even a cheesy TV reboot. Here’s what to watch this weekend.
The Dirt a polluted time capsule of toxic masculinity
Lowering every expectation possible will not prepare you for the depths this biopic can sink as metalhead morons Motley Crue congratulate themselves for all the women they swiftly bedded, shedded and worse.
Us will get under your skin, and inside your head
Us is a treacherously trippy exercise in enigmatic terror from American writer-director Jordan Peele, whose unheralded debut Get Out was a box-office sensation in 2017.
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