Action and adventure films
Novocaine review – Jack Quaid is put through the grinder in ultraviolent action comedy
A man’s inability to feel pain comes in handy in this extravagantly gory bank heist caper
Wendy Ide
30, Mar, 2025 @2:00 PM
A Working Man review – Jason Statham puts the hours in, to no avail
The actor dons a hard hat for more knuckle-dusting mayhem but is let down by David Ayer’s portentous direction
Wendy Ide
30, Mar, 2025 @11:00 AM
Amazon confirms producers to steer next James Bond film: ‘greatest sense of responsibility’
Spider-Man’s Amy Pascal and Harry Potter’s David Heyman will helm the tech company’s first official 007 adventure
Benjamin Lee
25, Mar, 2025 @5:55 PM
Samuel L Jackson on shark thriller Deep Blue Sea: ‘I’ve had many deaths – but everyone remembers this one’
‘I had no idea I’d get so wet. I was in water for a month. For the storm scenes, they were dumping it on us from towers. There were big-ass waves flying everywhere’
Interviews by Chris Broughton
24, Mar, 2025 @3:12 PM
Why are the most expensive Netflix movies also the worst?
Streamer’s endless quest to make an unforgettable blockbuster continues to sputter out with the release of $300m dud The Electric State
Jesse Hassenger
17, Mar, 2025 @2:00 PM
In the Lost Lands review – not much to find in pointless science-fantasy
George RR Martin story flabbily retold in a dreary postapocalypse where Milla Jovovich has few spells to cast as a witch for hire
Peter Bradshaw
12, Mar, 2025 @1:00 PM
Novocaine review – throwaway one-joke action comedy brings the pain
Jack Quaid is a charming lead as a man who can’t feel pain but this high-concept caper brings low-level enjoyment
Benjamin Lee
11, Mar, 2025 @3:41 PM
The Accountant 2 review – Ben Affleck’s autistic assassin returns for solid sequel
There’s more ludicrous plotting and macho action in Amazon’s decent enough fan service follow-up
Adrian Horton in Austin
09, Mar, 2025 @2:07 PM
The Electric State review – Millie Bobby Brown’s bot war yarn is soulless digital content
Brown, Chris Pratt and Stanley Tucci head the human cast of this muddled and derivative adaptation of a book by Swedish sci-fi artist Simon Stålenhag
Peter Bradshaw
07, Mar, 2025 @3:00 PM
Old Guy review – Christoph Waltz is grumpy hitman on verge of retirement in action comedy
Waltz and Lucy Liu lead this tale of an assassin grudgingly mentoring a younger up-and-comer, but their strong turns can’t fire up the ho-hum story
Peter Bradshaw
05, Mar, 2025 @11:00 AM
Last Breath review – thrilling underwater survival drama
Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu star in a terrifyingly well-constructed adaptation of a documentary about a nightmarish accident
Adrian Horton
27, Feb, 2025 @1:00 AM
The name’s Bezos, Jeff Bezos: what can we expect from Amazon’s James Bond?
With one of the film industry’s most lucrative franchises signed over to Amazon MGM, 007 could be facing down the barrel of spin-offs, quasi-crowdsourcing and a cinematic universe to rival Marvel
Andrew Pulver
21, Feb, 2025 @2:18 PM
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