Category: 3.5 Star Review

  • Finding Emily (2026) Review – Searching for Something Real

    Finding Emily (2026) Review – Searching for Something Real

    In one sentence: After losing a digit from a girl’s phone number, a young man turns a brief connection into an increasingly complicated romantic quest. Romcoms rarely seem to have the lasting cultural impact of films like Bridget Jones’s Diary or Love Actually. Many arrive with charm and disappear just as quickly. With the producers…

  • Twinless (2026) Review – Life Without Your Other Half

    Twinless (2026) Review – Life Without Your Other Half

    In one sentence: After the sudden death of his identical twin, a grieving man forms a close bond with another bereaved twin, only for hidden truths to complicate their connection. Dylan O’Brien has built a varied and interesting filmography and Twinless gives him another opportunity to show his range in a film that feels both…

  • The Drama (2026) Review – The Things We Can’t Unhear

    The Drama (2026) Review – The Things We Can’t Unhear

    In one sentence: A seemingly perfect relationship unravels when a single confession forces a couple to confront whether we can ever truly know the person we love. Has your blood ever run cold when hearing your partner reveal something about themselves that you simply can’t unhear? A moment that fundamentally alters how you see them,…

  • Reminders of Him (2026) Review – Love, Loss and Second Chances

    Reminders of Him (2026) Review – Love, Loss and Second Chances

    In one sentence: In Reminders of Him, a young mother, recently released from prison, returns home determined to rebuild her life and form a relationship with the daughter she has never held, only to find her past standing firmly in the way. Colleen Hoover’s latest adaptation, Reminders of Him, may follow a somewhat predictable path,…

  • Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) Review – Friendship, Fear and Fatal Misunderstandings

    Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) Review – Friendship, Fear and Fatal Misunderstandings

    In one sentence: In Bodies Bodies Bodies, a group of wealthy twenty-somethings gather for a hurricane party, but when one of them dies during a party game, suspicion and paranoia quickly turn friends against each other. Some films appear superficial at first glance, the kind you might dismiss as little more than brain rot. At…

  • Marty Supreme (2025) Review – When Ambition Becomes Obsession

    Marty Supreme (2025) Review – When Ambition Becomes Obsession

    In one sentence: Marty Supreme follows a gifted but egotistical 1950s ping pong prodigy who chases international glory, only to find that his relentless ambition begins to destroy the very relationships and opportunities he believes he deserves. Napoleon Bonaparte once said “Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may…

  • Sentimental Value (2026) Review – A Quiet Study of Love, Loss and Legacy

    Sentimental Value (2026) Review – A Quiet Study of Love, Loss and Legacy

    In one sentence: Sentimental Value follows a troubled theatre actress forced to confront her past when her estranged filmmaker father returns home with a deeply personal script that reopens old wounds. Joachim Trier joins forces with Renate Reinsve once again after The Worst Person in the World in another gentle but powerful film about relationship…

  • Hamnet (2026) Review – A Raw Meditation on Grief

    Hamnet (2026) Review – A Raw Meditation on Grief

    In one sentence: Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s best selling novel, Hamnet explores the impact of the death of Shakespeare’s young son and how this loss was transformed into art through grief, memory and loss. Often we watch films hoping to be surprised, but Hamnet is not interested in twists. Its power lies instead in emotional…

  • Maggie’s Plan (2015) Review – A Rom-Com That Knows Life Is Complicated

    Maggie’s Plan (2015) Review – A Rom-Com That Knows Life Is Complicated

    In one sentence: Maggie’s Plan follows a single woman determined to become a mother on her own, whose carefully laid plans unravel when she falls for a married academic. Romantic comedies often follow a familiar formula and can feel overly predictable. Too frequently, women are portrayed as waiting for a man to arrive before their…

  • A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Review – A Magical Detour into Self-Reflection

    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Review – A Magical Detour into Self-Reflection

    In one sentence: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a magical realism film that follows a couple on an unexpected road of reflection and self-discovery. What would you say if your GPS asked whether you wanted to go on a big, bold, beautiful journey? Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) say yes, catapulting both…