Seven Psychopaths (2012)
2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: DISAPPOINTING Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson; a fantastic cast, and therefore it...
Short reviews of films, books, plays, theatre, and TV shows, from a young critic.
2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: DISAPPOINTING Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson; a fantastic cast, and therefore it...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: IMAGINATIVE In the Prologue, narrator Richard admits that he and his bizarre Classics friends at Hampden College...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SHARP A terrifying thriller. Two detectives (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt) investigate a serial killer (Kevin...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: YOUNG Olivia Wilde’s debut directing attempt is impressive, but certainly not for everyone. Best friends Amy...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INTRIGUING Young, Native American Natalie (Kelsey Chow) is found lying in the snow, dead, after being raped. An FBI...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: FABULOUS Todd Phillip’s ‘Joker’ offers a fabulous interpretation of the well-known Batman character, telling the...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: STUNNING A performance that would blow even a non-theatre lover away. Sophie Okonedo and Ralph Fiennes are...
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...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SAD After watching this film, one cannot describe Noah Baumbach as anything less than a genius. From the screenplay...
1/5 ONE WORLD REVIEW: RUBBISH Unexperienced, homeless orphan Dwight Evans (Macon Blair) seeks revenge for the death of his parents. For a...
2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: UNEXCITING The true story of female French author Colette, who was manipulated into publishing her celebrated...
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...
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: SAD A kind of film which offers what you expect, an engaging storyline of a young married man with a son seeking...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ICONIC Sam Mendes’ direction combined with Roger Deakins’ cinematography creates nothing less than a masterpiece....
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ORIGINAL A group of Jewish men take revenge on the Nazis by scalping their soldiers in an attempt to end the war....
4/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: BRAVE Each night, Johnny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated between the roles of the Creature and Victor...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: INDIVIDUAL Two assassins, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), are sent to Bruges in Belgium to ‘recover’...
2/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: TEDIOUS Brad Pitt is the only exciting part of this movie, which must have cost an extraordinary amount to make, due...
5/5 ONE WORD REVIEW: ECCENTRIC Starting at the end, The Gentleman is extraordinarily engaging, with a star-studded cast, and a narrative...