BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE | REVIEW

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Released unto a post-slap world, the fourth Bad Boys carries the double jeopardy of also being Will Smith’s first shot at a box office still reeling from its darkest year. There’s a reason they’ve called this one Ride

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE | REVIEW

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If you thought Deadpool & Wolverine would exercise one iota of patience before wheeling out its show pony – the return of Hugh Jackman to his X-Men origins – then you thought wrong. Shaun Levy’s threequel is

INSIDE OUT 2 | REVIEW

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Nine years have ebbed and flown since our last visit to Riley’s mind, the setting of Pete Docter’s groundbreaking animation Inside Out. They’ve not been kind. Not universally so and certainly not for the studio that

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE | REVIEW

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One of the great strengths of John Krasinski’s original Quiet Place, beyond its ruthlessly effective premise, was the decision to set the film far into the post of its post-apocalyptic setting. Day 472. The world belonged

MAXXXINE | REVIEW

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From the moment she struts into her first frame in MaXXine, skin-tight in silhouette and denim, Mia Goth is everything. In a film all about exploitation and the thirst for fame, only she has the fangs

DESPICABLE ME 4 | REVIEW

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Despicable Me peaked with Silas Ramsbottom. Not the Steve Coogan voiced character, per se, but the sequence of his jowly introduction. Was it Kevin, or perhaps Bob, who looked furtively to his neighbouring minion and sniggered

FLY ME TO THE MOON | REVIEW

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The world changed forever in July 1969. Or, perhaps, it didn’t. If you go in for that sort of thing. An extraordinary number of people still do it would seem, with conspiracy no less ripe

TWISTERS | REVIEW

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If the pervading memory of Jan de Bont’s 1996 block-fluster Twister is an image of bovine aeronautics, it’s hard to picture how its instantly less iconic 2024 sequel, from Minari director Lee Isaac Chung, will be remembered. Perhaps only

THE MENU (2022) REVIEW

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A DELECTABLE AND DEVIOUS CINEMATIC DISH   While popular film genres such as action, horror, and comedy are the more dominant categories of feature film classifications, there are a plethora of subgenres out there that

DEVOTION (2022) REVIEW

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JUST BE MY WINGMAN!   When the rising conflicts of World War II ended, another round of warring strife began to ensue in Korea, which pulled the forces of the United States / United Nations