Reviews

Josh O’Connor plays a rumpled ‘tombaroli’—an Italian tomb raider who yearns to join his lost love underground.

With no dialogue, Robot Dreams confidently leans on its visual storytelling and the strength of its animated performances.

New director Arkasha Stevenson brings us to our knees with this unexpectedly brilliant horror prequel.

Based on a celebrated book about caste and intolerance, this drama manages to make its complex argument feel accessible.

This series doesn’t feel like a throwback: it’s hermetically sealed in its own, manicured universe.

Patel shows a raw directing skill that compensates for the film’s inconsistencies in pacing and tone.

Nominated for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards, the film shares a lot with fellow nominee Society of the Snow.

Rachel House, making her feature directorial debut, has crafted a distinctly New Zealand film centred on kids that young audiences can latch onto.

Lowe writes, stars and directs once again, this time twisting soulmate-ism with her trademark cynicism.

Not detracting too much from the first season’s formula, this new season sees enough tweaks to make its “underground” theme feel distinctive.

Things get pretty gnarly by the end of the Cairnes bros.’ retro romp, and genre fans will leave satisfied.

Takes its character and audience on a journey with some entertainingly outré moments and implications.

This is a big, heavy watch with some head-turning moments—but it gets exhausting pretty quick.

Road House is a sledgehammer. It’s made for big swings. It makes an impact.

Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown doesn’t take any guff in her new action movie, going head-to-head with a dragon.

The Zellner Bros. new comedy follows a year in the life of pissin’, poopin’, baby-makin’ humanoid creatures.

This class act concocts a compelling clash of classes that echoes loudly to the wider state of the country.

This charming little mystery is more my kind of “true” story over music and monarchy biopics.

Sex sells—but you might not want to buy it from this pretentious, half-arsed biographical drama from Netflix.

When the story finds its way back to the central conflict, The Convert compels.

A tragically common experience results in an impossibly affecting story of vulnerability and survival.