Nightcrawler (2014)
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ANNOYING A frustrating film, firstly due to the misleading trailer, and secondly due to the slightly unbelievable...
Short reviews of films, books, plays, theatre, and TV shows, from a young critic.
3/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ANNOYING A frustrating film, firstly due to the misleading trailer, and secondly due to the slightly unbelievable...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: OUTSTANDING Rupert Goold’s interpretation on the life of Judy Garland, who came to fame at an extraordinarily young...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ADORABLE Tom Hanks’ Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in this loveable film is thoroughly deserved, as he...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ASTOUNDING Steven Spielberg’s interpretation of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel is magnificent, a piece of cinematic...
2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: DIFFICULT Donna Tartt’s ‘The Goldfinch’ is translated to screen rather inconsistently by director John Crowley....
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: HILARIOUS Written by real-life couple Kumail and Emily about the beginning of their relationship, ‘The Big Sick’...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INTENSE Audiences are given an insight into the terror of working in the LAPD, through the friendship between two...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INDIE Noah Baumbach explores the difficulty of joint custody post-divorce in his dramatic and heavy feature film....
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: MARVELLOUS Francis Ford Coppola’s classic starts of brilliantly, and just keeps getting better and better as the...
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...
2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: CUTE Cute, but not much more. ‘The Beat Beneath my Feet’ tells the story of a stereotypical ‘different’ boy, who...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SPECTACULAR Céline Sciamma explores ‘girlhood’ and sisterhood in such a raw and lovely way. The plot is full of so...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ENJOYABLE The story of how Reginal Dwight became Elton John, is heart-warming, with a feel-good soundtrack of...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ATTENTION-GRABBING Director David Fincher offers a gripping film following the true, well-known unsolved murders...
2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SUBTLE The first half of the film is brilliant, and unfortunately, the second half does not equal it. Beautifully...
2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ENLIGHTENING Based on the book by François Bégaudeau, audiences are welcomed into Monsieur Marin’s classroom, in...
2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: WRONG An interesting concept, with some terrific acting, but unfortunately, it just does not work. Richard Dane...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: EMPOWERING A true story of a female liberation group who targeted the Miss World Competition of 1970. Kiera...