Review
At first, Joker: Folie a Deux is entertaining. Then it quickly isn’t
Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, the sequel is wildly misconceived – a small story inflated by grandiose intentions.
- by Sandra Hall
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The Critic is nasty but not nasty enough (as a critic, I would say that)
This sordid yet cosy British melodrama starring Ian McKellen is full of people behaving badly, but it never quite comes together.
- by Jake Wilson
There’s not enough Aubrey Plaza in this Aubrey Plaza film
In My Old Ass, a teenager is visited by her 39-year-old self who offers a preview of their shared future. And it’s not what she hoped.
- by Sandra Hall
Wolfs feels like a last hurrah for Brad Pitt and George Clooney
The film may be about underworld fixers, but it’s really about the screen sensation when you put two movie stars together.
- by Craig Mathieson
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis should have been weirder
The legendary director’s ambitious swing about the fall of the US empire, told as a modern Roman fable, is packed to bursting with ideas that don’t always work.
- by Robert Moran
The director of How to Train Your Dragon is back with another excellent animation
Featuring a cast including Lupita Nyong’o, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Pedro Pascal and Mark Hamill, The Wild Robot is both beautiful and original.
- by Sandra Hall
★★★½
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Demi Moore’s audacious body horror dives beneath the surface
The Substance is a morbid satire on Hollywood, the beauty industry and the dream of eternal youth.
- by Jake Wilson
James McAvoy is electrifying in this buzzy horror. But is it any good?
Horror remake Speak No Evil is a clever but nauseating frightener about the consequences of remaining silent in the face of rampant domestic abuse.
- by Sandra Hall
Boxing drama Kid Snow is the kind of Australian film we used to make
Forget about political correctness, director Paul Goldman and the film’s writers have no desire to give us a revisionist version of the past.
- by Sandra Hall
Almost everything in this film will divide audiences – that’s why it’s great
Last Summer suggests that when desire takes hold, morality flies out the window.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★★
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Inspired, witty and full of warmth, June Squibb’s Thelma steals the show
Writer-director Josh Margolin has a deft and tender touch when it comes to the tricky relationship between farce and poignancy.
- by Sandra Hall
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