The film has a lot of energy and plenty of appealing characters but it's poorly paced with too many subplots.
Mumble's son, Erik, is struggling to realise his talents in the Emperor Penguin world. Meanwhile, Mumble and his family and friends discover a new threat their home - one that will take everyone working together to save them.
A mixed bag, as while Everett the actor masterfully evokes the mournful mix of decadence and decay of the last years of Wilde, Everett the filmmaker is, like so many before him, too much in love with the brilliant old rogue for his own good.
The film ends up becoming tonally unresolved, stuck a little awkwardly between heart-on-sleeve candour, humour and attempts at creating a rollicking, carefree air of cool knowingness.
Hara-kiri: Death Of A Samurai is in fact a lesson in artful restraint, slowly and deliberately building to its violent conclusion with a multi-layered narrative of flashback and counter-flashback.
Takashi Miike follows 13 Assassins with a neo-classical remake of the Yasuhiko Takiguchi story about desperate, impoverished ronin and implacably cruel feudal lords.
The film utililses typical Japanese broad humour and a lot of innuendo, but for the most part it manages to keep up the pace and maintain an element of tension.
A group of thieves is recruited for a dangerous mission which turns out to have a personal twist.
Skilfully crafted, The Harbinger is a rightly distressing, melancholy take on the events of the recent past and the troubles we still live with today.
A woman leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who's suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.
Everything is elevated to an almost cartoonish level, but the performances are big enough to carry it, with Elba maintaining a calm presence at the centre.
When an outlaw discovers his enemy is being freed from jail he rounds up his gang to seek revenge.
As a director, he captures the seedy glamour of the gambling world perfectly and as a writer he propels a taut, no-frills story along with a screenplay that’s literate and believable.
A veteran gambler takes a young drifter under his wing.
It’s funny to begin with, watching Pansy rant with no filter, sharing her negative thoughts on everything from baby clothes with pockets to sofa salespeople, but gradually we realise just how close to the edge she is.
Life's a constant struggle for Pansy. Racked with physical and mental pain, her dealings with the world are channeled through anger and confrontation - only her sister understands and is able to help her.
A cri de cœur on behalf of all those from who hope has been stolen
Ali earns a living illegally selling gasoline on the street. He doesn’t have any contact with his family, but when he receives news that his father has died, he is forced to become responsible for his two younger sisters.
Moroccan-born Faucon directs with understated skill, never flinching from unpalatable truths.
At the end of the 1950s, beginning of the 1960s, the war in Algeria continued. Salah, Kaddour and other destitute young Algerians join the French army as harkis.
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life.
Held together by three impressive performances, with Tyra the standout, Harpoon deftly plays with audience assumptions and sympathies, exploiting our prejudices as each character gradually reveals hitherto unseen depths.
Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean under suspicious circumstances.
The performance Erivo delivers is the film's greatest asset and makes her a serious contender this awards season, but though she dominates the film, she's not all there is to appreciate here.
The story of freedom fighter Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into an American hero.
If anyone has any doubts that James Stewart was the consummate film actor, his performance as Elwood P Dowd in this classic comedy of the Fifties will dispel them.
Consistently above the quality of the average genre film, and always visually interesting..
A high-school senior obsessed with all things horror and Halloween lands his first job - as a scare actor at the famous Markoff’s Haunted Forest attraction in Maryland. Then a mysterious series of killings begins.
The film is based on a Disney theme park ride, but feels like a creaky merry-go-round compared with the thrilling rollercoaster that was Pirates Of The Caribbean.
A workaholic estate agent learns
to appreciate his family when
trapped in a haunted house.
Once the film starts to get brutal, it’s easy to become so focused on the horror that one loses sight of the mystery, and this seems to be a conscious trick on Tsai’s part.
A legend in Taiwan's mountains says that when lost, hikers encounter a figure in a yellow raincoat who points to a blurry path, leading them to disappear.
In post-World War II Venice, Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a séance. When one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.
Dvorák is well cast in the central role, couching Havel's charm and general enthusiasm with an air of uncertainty, especially when he faces tough choices and the loss of his freedom.
Biopic of Vaclav Havel, focusing on his life and increasing political activism in the Seventies.
Director Aki Kaurismäki's latest is a humanist hug of a fable, which concludes that while big miracles may happen, it's the everyday 'miracles' people create for one another that really count.
Soderbergh lays the pretension on thick in flashbacks to the Barcelona job that is clearly at the root of her problems, with slo-mo here and black and white there doing nothing to distract from the fact that it has all the substance of a chocolate bar adv
It’s ridiculous to have a Russian director who obviously has strong opinions about Russia and especially about the Russo-Ukrainian war make such a tone-deaf film about the Russian threat.
Two heads of state form an unlikely alliance to combat a global conspiracy.
