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THE INTERNET'S MOST HONEST FILM REVIEWS. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.


The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
Of Lagercrantz's three novels in the series, this is by some distance the best, but it's arguably the hardest to adapt for the screen.
Jan 21, 20242 min read


The Searchers (1956)
The Searchers is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. Although it's great, this is a claim too far.
Jan 21, 20242 min read


Dead Ringers (1988)
Cronenberg's follow up to his eponymous version of The Fly (1986) concerns the lives of a pair of identical twins.
Jan 21, 20242 min read


Jade (1995)
William Friedkin's erotic thriller has been battered by critics and audiences alike down the years.
Jan 20, 20242 min read


Snake Eyes (1998)
Brian De Palma with a Rasomon style thriller in Las Vegas? Sign me up! Or not.
Jan 20, 20242 min read


Outland (1981)
Apart from the fact that there isn't an alien in Peter Hyam's Outland, this may as well be Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) made by Luc Besson.
Jan 19, 20242 min read


Society of the Snow (2023)
J.A Bayona's account of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash and its survivors in the Andes in 1972 is a tour de force.
Jan 12, 20243 min read


Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
King tells the true story of William O'Neal, a petty criminal who avoids jail time by agreeing to an FBI plea deal.
Jan 1, 20242 min read


Southern Comfort (1981)
During the Vietnam war, a squad of National Guardsmen take part in a military training exercise in the deep swamps of Louisiana.
Jan 1, 20242 min read


Archive (2021)
Fans of Duncan Jones' sci-fi masterpiece Moon (2009), or Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014) will feel in eerily familiar territory here.
Jan 1, 20241 min read


Dressed to Kill (1980)
Critics and academics have dissected and castrated Dressed To Kill for years, and it's true, this is far from De Palma's finest.
Jan 1, 20241 min read


Jagged Edge (1986)
I’m a sucker for a Joe Eszterhas script. But this isn't quite up there with his finest.
Jan 1, 20241 min read


Psycho (1960)
There’s only so much you can say about Psycho before you simply start repeating all the superlatives that have come before.
Dec 31, 20231 min read


Azor (2021)
This is fantastic schooling in low-key effectiveness.
Dec 29, 20231 min read


Ferrari (2023)
Michael Mann's biopic of Enzo Ferrari finally reaches us, nearly twenty five years after it was originally pitched.
Dec 28, 20233 min read


The Fifth Element (1997)
Whoever wrote The Fifth Element must have surely been sectioned immediately on the films release.
Dec 17, 20232 min read


Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Frequently held up as the finest of the Batman animated films, this is also a key feature in the future films of the franchise.
Dec 17, 20231 min read


Taken (2008)
Surprisingly, Taken isn't simply ninety minutes of brainless violence.
Dec 17, 20232 min read




No Sudden Move (2021)
Since Steven Soderbergh retired back in 2013, he's managed to direct at least five full length films.
Dec 17, 20232 min read
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