Mr Darcy meets Basil Fawlty in promising big screen debut
Nida Manzoor’s Polite Society starts out as a Pakistani Pride and Prejudice in today’s London and leaps an impressive distance from there.
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Ana de Armas has a surprising excuse for not texting back in action comedy Ghosted, an Apple TV film about a spy and a civilian forced to join forces to stop the baddies.
Joaquin Phoenix in surreal odyssey or three-hour anxiety attack?
The actor’s performance as a late-40s man with a medicine cabinet full of problems deserves four stars.
Russell Crowe excels as Vatican exorcist-in-chief
The Pope’s Exorcist is a more fictional account that takes The Exorcist and adds a bit of the Da Vinci Code and a splash of Indiana Jones.
Whodunnit sequel not quite a killer
In Murder Mystery 2 Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler peddle borderline dad jokes. It’s a Friday night movie; one to watch with a glass of something and the brain in sleep mode.
This Michael Jordan, Nike film deserves Oscars buzz
Ben Affleck’s Air is less a sports movie than a sports marketing movie. The script is sharp and the performances are tremendous.
This timely sequel is a subversive delight
The Bookbinder of Jericho, like its predecessor, blends fact and fiction. Like all good historical novels, it has a timeliness that makes it relevant today.
John Wick 4: Are we watching Keanu Reeves in a video game?
Three hours of relentless shooting and little acting makes the fourth film in the Wick franchise an epic disappointment.
Say cheese? One was seldom impressed
The first time John Swannell photographed Queen Elizabeth II he asked the sovereign for a ‘little smile’. But ‘Her majesty doesn’t smile on cue. She smiles when she feels like smiling’.
Why Sly’s fight club is still worth a ringside seat
You will feel every punch and check that your teeth haven’t come loose while watching Michael B. Jordan in Creed III. But this is more than a fight film.
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