For all its star-power there's not much shining.

~ Andrew Robertson -

For all its star-power there's not much shining.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Not necessarily successful, but nonetheless compelling, even hypnotic

~ Andrew Robertson -

Not necessarily successful, but nonetheless compelling, even hypnotic

~ Andrew Robertson -

Good enough.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Good enough.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's big and loud and works very hard to signify nothing, but like the eye of a hurricane, gaps can be important.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's big and loud and works very hard to signify nothing, but like the eye of a hurricane, gaps can be important.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's entertaining enough if you're familiar.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's entertaining enough if you're familiar.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Deadpool &Wolverine is more of the same.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Deadpool &Wolverine is more of the same.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I was surprised to be as pleasantly surprised.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I was surprised to be as pleasantly surprised.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The film takes its name from a space defined by boundaries, but it doesn't even bother to colour inbetween the lines.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The film takes its name from a space defined by boundaries, but it doesn't even bother to colour inbetween the lines.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Despite a difficult subject matter, It Ends With Us is a powerful piece that features several strong performances, most notably its co-leads.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Despite a difficult subject matter, It Ends With Us is a powerful piece that features several strong performances, most notably its co-leads.

~ Andrew Robertson -

In the opening sequence we're shown a relief carving of a xenomorph. Such a thing could be used as a mould, but the film is so intent on replication that it doesn't break it, or free.

~ Andrew Robertson -

In the opening sequence we're shown a relief carving of a xenomorph. Such a thing could be used as a mould, but the film is so intent on replication that it doesn't break it, or free.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's got the musicality that proper swearing should.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's got the musicality that proper swearing should.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Quaid and Miller's performances do a lot to carry a film that seeks neither to deify or demonise. If it weren't for their chemistry some sections would fall flat.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Quaid and Miller's performances do a lot to carry a film that seeks neither to deify or demonise. If it weren't for their chemistry some sections would fall flat.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Serves as a reminder of a talent who despite some failures hasn't forgotten how to direct thrillers.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Serves as a reminder of a talent who despite some failures hasn't forgotten how to direct thrillers.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Coimbra's touch is assured, Ulisses Malta Jr's cinematography helps create something that looks as crisp as shadows on clean concrete.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Coimbra's touch is assured, Ulisses Malta Jr's cinematography helps create something that looks as crisp as shadows on clean concrete.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Lines around victimhood are rarely clean. Here they're jagged and brittle, fearsome and fearful.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Lines around victimhood are rarely clean. Here they're jagged and brittle, fearsome and fearful.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Again and again there are elements that will be echoed in later works, mirrors and masks and little friends, split screens and thrills and untimely ends.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Again and again there are elements that will be echoed in later works, mirrors and masks and little friends, split screens and thrills and untimely ends.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's fun. It's quite unabashedly so, which is something too many movies based on this sort of property are afraid of.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's fun. It's quite unabashedly so, which is something too many movies based on this sort of property are afraid of.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It finds room for those who despise weakness, and are weaker for it, and is stronger because of it.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It finds room for those who despise weakness, and are weaker for it, and is stronger because of it.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Though it's relatively long it's so packed with incident and detail that it flies by.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Though it's relatively long it's so packed with incident and detail that it flies by.

~ Andrew Robertson -

What isn't untrue is that Anora is brilliant.

~ Andrew Robertson -

What isn't untrue is that Anora is brilliant.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Both sides of the political spectrum have arguments about how the law and justice are not the same. While Callahan and his .44 were making that case one bullet at a time, Juror #2 is a lot slower, with plenty more sitting down.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Both sides of the political spectrum have arguments about how the law and justice are not the same. While Callahan and his .44 were making that case one bullet at a time, Juror #2 is a lot slower, with plenty more sitting down.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's just not very captivating.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It's just not very captivating.

~ Andrew Robertson -

An intense pop-cultural awareness permeates Heretic. This is the doctrinal dialogue of our age.

~ Andrew Robertson -

An intense pop-cultural awareness permeates Heretic. This is the doctrinal dialogue of our age.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I do not know that I could ever with a good conscience describe a film as 'perfect' but this comes close.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I do not know that I could ever with a good conscience describe a film as 'perfect' but this comes close.

~ Andrew Robertson -

After award-winning shorts the deadpan documentarian has made his feature début, and it's a delight.

~ Andrew Robertson -

After award-winning shorts the deadpan documentarian has made his feature début, and it's a delight.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Box-office and quality are at best occasional companions and there's a reason that we distinguish between critical and commercial success. It's likely that as in the film crowds will turn and thumbs will waver.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Box-office and quality are at best occasional companions and there's a reason that we distinguish between critical and commercial success. It's likely that as in the film crowds will turn and thumbs will waver.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The film again manages to balance the astonishing realism of textures like hair and sand and water with character designs that verge on the impressionistic.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The film again manages to balance the astonishing realism of textures like hair and sand and water with character designs that verge on the impressionistic.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Nightbitch is of an ilk that is off-kilter. It is unreliable and unstable. It is visceral and dark. It is taxidermy and what I think are freezer potato pancakes.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Nightbitch is of an ilk that is off-kilter. It is unreliable and unstable. It is visceral and dark. It is taxidermy and what I think are freezer potato pancakes.

~ Andrew Robertson -

For fans of the musical, this will give them more of what they already like, perhaps even too much. For those not yet fans I'm not sure this will give them enough.

~ Andrew Robertson -

For fans of the musical, this will give them more of what they already like, perhaps even too much. For those not yet fans I'm not sure this will give them enough.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Director Edward Berger and his director of photography Stephane Fontaine have made every frame art.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Director Edward Berger and his director of photography Stephane Fontaine have made every frame art.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The absurdity is one of its delights.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The absurdity is one of its delights.

~ Andrew Robertson -

To mix courtly and cavalry intrigue requires stable footing and the film is well poised.

~ Andrew Robertson -

To mix courtly and cavalry intrigue requires stable footing and the film is well poised.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Film's ability to change scale and scope turns Better Man from a jukebox musical into something at once more and less personal.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Film's ability to change scale and scope turns Better Man from a jukebox musical into something at once more and less personal.

~ Andrew Robertson -

As much as 2073 mentions things, it digs no further.

~ Andrew Robertson -

As much as 2073 mentions things, it digs no further.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A film doesn't have to have a message, or a moral; indeed if its only motive is mercenary then that's fine, as long as it entertains. Kraven just doesn't.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A film doesn't have to have a message, or a moral; indeed if its only motive is mercenary then that's fine, as long as it entertains. Kraven just doesn't.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Remake is perhaps less apt than revisitation, if not outright revision.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Remake is perhaps less apt than revisitation, if not outright revision.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Unlike many adaptions it does want to have fun, worrying less about being pixel-perfect or po-faced than propulsive plotting.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Unlike many adaptions it does want to have fun, worrying less about being pixel-perfect or po-faced than propulsive plotting.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It is gorgeous, both to look at and to listen to. It's perhaps Larrain's most accessible film, though that's as much to do with its star as its subject.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It is gorgeous, both to look at and to listen to. It's perhaps Larrain's most accessible film, though that's as much to do with its star as its subject.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Halina Reijn's film is a rewarding piece of work, in no small part because of how it challenges its subjects and its audience.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Halina Reijn's film is a rewarding piece of work, in no small part because of how it challenges its subjects and its audience.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It purports to an authenticity that is itself imagined, a glossy act of nostalgia that feels antithetical to the shock of the new that Dylan's apparently meant to represent.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It purports to an authenticity that is itself imagined, a glossy act of nostalgia that feels antithetical to the shock of the new that Dylan's apparently meant to represent.

~ Andrew Robertson -

An ostensibly rousing speech is aiming for Braveheart but has all the grip one would expect from an address to an adhesive sales conference.

~ Andrew Robertson -

An ostensibly rousing speech is aiming for Braveheart but has all the grip one would expect from an address to an adhesive sales conference.

~ Andrew Robertson -

If you're not already invested it's unlikely you'll care.

~ Andrew Robertson -

If you're not already invested it's unlikely you'll care.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It feels like a mid-season episode of one of the interminable slew of acronym-based law enforcement shows.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It feels like a mid-season episode of one of the interminable slew of acronym-based law enforcement shows.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There's little new under the sun, and even less by moonlight.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There's little new under the sun, and even less by moonlight.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It might be too much to expect a film to tell a bigger story, but that hope is borne in part because it doesn't really manage to tell a smaller one.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It might be too much to expect a film to tell a bigger story, but that hope is borne in part because it doesn't really manage to tell a smaller one.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The thing that most suggests Companion isn't based on a lost Philip K Dick story is that it has more developed female characters.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The thing that most suggests Companion isn't based on a lost Philip K Dick story is that it has more developed female characters.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There comes a point where ingredients stop being a recipe and start resembling a shopping list.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There comes a point where ingredients stop being a recipe and start resembling a shopping list.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A sophisticated palate will discern any number of flavours running through Black Bag, but these are glosses on a traditional recipe.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A sophisticated palate will discern any number of flavours running through Black Bag, but these are glosses on a traditional recipe.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Establishing shots of boats and docks and archive footage are not only more genuine than the film's version of events but more convincing.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Establishing shots of boats and docks and archive footage are not only more genuine than the film's version of events but more convincing.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I laughed, and was not alone in doing so, out loud, and repeatedly.

~ Andrew Robertson -

I laughed, and was not alone in doing so, out loud, and repeatedly.

~ Andrew Robertson -