Cats (2019)
1/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: MISTAKE How could it go so wrong? There are so many things wrong with this film, it is difficult to narrow it down...
Short reviews of films, books, plays, theatre, and TV shows, from a young critic.
1/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: MISTAKE How could it go so wrong? There are so many things wrong with this film, it is difficult to narrow it down...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: JOVIAL Tom Hanks wrote and directed this fun movie, about a young band trying to make it in the 90s music industry....
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...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ORIGINAL The Japanese drama and Palme d’Or winner, ‘Shoplifters,’ follows a dysfunctional ‘family’ who shoplift to...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: WOW The Last Dance tells the story of Michael Jordan’s rise to a basketball legend. In ten episodes, this miniseries...
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: EXEMPLARY The National Theatre Live’s best production published on their YouTube this quarantine. Not only is the...
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...