Action and adventure films
The Woman King review – a thunderously cinematic good time
Magnificent Viola Davis heads Gina Prince-Bythewood’s ass-kicking, thought-provoking epic inspired by a real-life all-female army
Wendy Ide
01, Oct, 2022 @2:00 PM
Lou review – Allison Janney gets her Taken but leaves us wanting
A welcome action lead for the Oscar winner is wasted in a Netflix kidnap thriller that underwhelms and exhausts
Benjamin Lee
23, Sep, 2022 @7:09 AM
Avatar review – James Cameron’s laboriously silly blockbuster shows its age
Ahead of the release of new chapter, the first in the franchise yields little – even the much-vaunted tech is old hat
Peter Bradshaw
21, Sep, 2022 @2:00 PM
Burial review – alternative-history drama of the battle over Hitler’s corpse
Intriguing alt-history about a struggle to capture the dictator’s corpse is ill-served by vague characterisation and feeble action scenes
Phil Hoad
20, Sep, 2022 @2:00 PM
Sam Mendes: the next James Bond film should be directed by a woman
The director of Skyfall and Spectre addressed a key behind-the-scenes aspect of the Bond franchise
Catherine Shoard
15, Sep, 2022 @2:15 PM
Devotion review – sturdy flyboy biopic needs more maverick spirit
Toronto film festival: An inspiring yet by-the-numbers retelling of the first Black man to compete in the navy’s flight training program
Charles Bramesco in Toronto
13, Sep, 2022 @1:50 PM
End of the Road review – Queen Latifah finds a dead end in clumsy Netflix thriller
Some authentic moments of racial tension aside, this derivative and trope-heavy trip isn’t worth taking
Radheyan Simonpillai
09, Sep, 2022 @7:14 AM
Wolves of War review – Ed Westwick pouts his way through behind-the-lines Nazi thriller
With a limited budget and overfamiliar storyline, this British war film never rises above a few nail-biting moments
Cath Clarke
05, Sep, 2022 @10:34 AM
Beast review – are you on Team Lion or Team Idris?
An enraged lion gives Idris Elba’s Nate and daughters a safari to remember as director Baltasar Kormákur brings unusual depth to the animal attack genre
Wendy Ide
27, Aug, 2022 @2:00 PM
Samaritan review – Sylvester Stallone slums it in Amazon’s superhero saga
There’s an overwhelming sense of deja vu in this competently made but immediately forgettable tale of a superhero forced out of retirement
Benjamin Lee
25, Aug, 2022 @7:00 PM
Special Delivery review – noirish bruiser is Fast and Furious in South Korea
Parasite’s Park So-dam stars as an elite courier ferrying fugitives in an action thriller packed with dangerous driving
Phil Hoad
15, Aug, 2022 @8:00 AM
Fall review – wildly effective survival thriller delivers seat-edge suspense
Two young women are trapped on top of a 2,000ft tower in an absolutely absurd yet undeniably effective nightmare
Benjamin Lee
10, Aug, 2022 @3:00 PM
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