movies

Disappointing, this could have been great

After a string of duds, Shyamalan returned to studio filmmaking with this 2021 thriller probing ageing and sickness – via the beach that makes you old

It is a pleasure to see Day-Lewis back on screen, and he dominates a movie of big scenes and big performances, co-written with and directed by his son

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/predator_badlands

The toothy villain is humanised and made sympathetic in this disappointing horror sci-fi – at which point it ceases to be the Predator

A better title for this would be something like “Hero (2002) is a case study in propaganda tactics and a really good movie”, but bad title or not it was a pretty good video imo

With a great script from Justin Piasecki this David Mackenzie-directed movie is pleasingly old fashioned, complete with Hitchcockian set piece

Bizarre dialogue riffs add flavour to this likable film about two friends on a road trip to track down some super rare records

Pedro Almodóvar has always had something to say, but “Parallel Mothers” may be his most ambitious statement to date. This is a film that operates on multiple registers simultaneously: a motherhood story wrapped inside a love triangle wrapped inside a political warning so urgent it reverberates far beyond Spain’s borders.

Foy convinces as a grieving academic who trains a goshawk in this film based on Helen Macdonald’s bestselling nature memoir

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/good_fortune

Debts, secrets and a cartoonish Tilda Swinton catch up with Farrell’s self-styled ‘Lord Doyle’ as he confronts his own destiny in a chance to win salvation

Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (1970)/ 智取威虎山 / Zhi qu wei hu shan

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/roofman

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/good_boy_2025

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_battle_after_another