Thank you, Detective Pikachu, for being a videogame movie that doesn’t suck
Could videogame movies be evolving?
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Film is indivisible from whānau in Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
An exploration of family alongside a celebration of creativity.
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New to Netflix, Prospect is an above-average sci-fi Western gem
A lot more to offer than just being an exercise in trope regurgitation.
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Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare drama All is True rings false
Shakespeare scholars will not be pleased.
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Zac Efron is stunning and charming in Netflix’s sadly boring Ted Bundy pic
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’s worst offence is being boring.
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Netflix doco Knock Down the House captures rise of AOC and much more
Political doco includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among its four subjects.
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We loved the absolute hell out of rom-com Long Shot
Rogen and Theron are funny as all hell.
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The Chills doco proves enthralling, emotional, and at times bleakly comical
Also conveys a real New Zealand-ness in both personality and place.
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The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir delivers a fun European feel-good trip
Proves optimistic and full of enough feel-good humanity.
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Spoiler-free Avengers: Endgame review – “good luck bettering this”
Both a victory lap and unexpected nostalgia trip.
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Netflix’s Someone Great tepidly tries to cross Broad City with Blue Valentine
“Easily the best thing about Someone Great is its cast.”
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Curse of the Weeping Woman might be the last Conjuring Universe film I see
This could have made for a rich, elegant, atmospheric horror flick.
