Reviews – ROUGH CUT

Review: Captain Marvel

Marvel’s first female superhero flies straight into a well-worn template that lacks gusto.

This mischievous survival film attempts to reclaim the complicated rape-revenge narrative.

Claire Denis’ ambitious first English-language flight into space is brought crashing down by glaringly conventional representational issues.

Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem reunite in Asghar Farhadi’s latest melodrama, where past merges with the present to unexpected results.

A makeshift heptad form a syncronised swimming team in this wryly offbeat, exposition-filled French dramedy.

Any celebratory spirit is scarce in this observational documentary centered on enigmatic fashion icon, Yves Saint Laurent.

This Danish single-location procedural is more concerned with its gripping phone conversation than any visual charm or narrative plausibility.

Ali Abbasi’s Swedish fable writhes in twists and turns, though renders its ethereal elements too literal.

Nadine Labaki’s neorealist drama respects the depths of a child’s sorrow and anger at an impoverished world.

Barry Jenkins’ follow up to Moonlight is an empathetic craft of feeling.

Willem Dafoe plays Vincent van Gogh in this murky symphony of paint and celluloid.

Mads Mikkelsen can’t save this pulseless survival film that takes too long to thaw out.

This Scandinavian revenge remake doesn’t deliver beyond its zippy, marketable premise.

This biopic based on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is not especially deep or complex, but it is empowering comfort food.