Emma (2020)
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SAME Another Jane Austen translated to cinema, but this time it’s exactly like every other film or TV series about...
Short reviews of films, books, plays, theatre, and TV shows, from a young critic.
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SAME Another Jane Austen translated to cinema, but this time it’s exactly like every other film or TV series about...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: WEIRD Christopher Nolan’s direction is nearly always iconic, but his 2010 movie just doesn’t hit quite the same as...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ADMIRABLE A TV show created and filmed in lockdown was never going to be fantastic, but that doesn’t mean that the...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: EXPECTED Another classic Woody Allen movie. Although the script is hilarious, at points, the humour feels somewhat...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: AVERAGE Brian Helgeland directed and wrote the screenplay for this biographical thriller about the infamous Kray...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: COOL The story of Queen, and their journey to fame and success, mainly focussing on the life of Freddie Mercury. It...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ANNOYING A frustrating film, firstly due to the misleading trailer, and secondly due to the slightly unbelievable...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: TOUCHING A young photographer is hired to give insight into the lives of police officers who deal with paedophiles...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: BIZARRE Set in Australia over two time periods, as Mike Kingley (Geoffrey Rush) explains to his granddaughter...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: REVEALING The Social Network tells the story of how Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) created ‘Facebook,’ and the...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: DISJOINTED The Leeds Playhouse’s production is rather bitty. While giving the audience insight into various...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: FUN Jon Favreau stars in and directs this feel-good family film, playing a brilliant but unsuccessful chef who...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: HAPPY An hour and a forty minutes of joy. Fabulous actors, including Jessica Brown Findlay, Jeremy Irvine, Andrew...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SATISFACTORY A story that needed to be heard just isn’t told that well. Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ADORABLE An unexpected friendship forms between tetraplegic Philippe (François Cluzet) and his carer Driss (Omar...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SWEET The story of John Lennon and how he met Paul and George. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, with her husband...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: BRUTAL Directed by stuntman Sam Hargrave, it is no surprise that the fight scenes and moments of violence in the...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INTERESTING Three housemates are talking, with almost every scene set in their shared bathroom. A simple concept,...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: CHRISTMASSY A lovely film evoking much happiness to audiences. Telling the story of love through about sixteen main...
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: COMPELLING The true story of women who made the seats for Ford, and on being named unskilled labourers, fight the...