Category: 4 Star Review

  • Obsession (2026) Review – Be Careful What You Wish For

    Obsession (2026) Review – Be Careful What You Wish For

    In one sentence: A shy young man uses a mysterious wishing toy to make the woman he loves fall for him, only to unleash an obsession far more terrifying than he ever imagined. Have you ever wished the person you liked felt the same way about you? In an age of love bombing and blurred…

  • How To Make a Killing (2026) Review – Wealth, Greed and Morality

    How To Make a Killing (2026) Review – Wealth, Greed and Morality

    In one sentence: A man raised on the fringes of a wealthy dynasty decides to murder the relatives standing between him and his inheritance, setting off a darkly comic spiral of greed and ambition. Life can feel deeply unfair at times, but the way people respond to that unfairness says a great deal about character.…

  • Michael (2026) Review – The Rise of an Icon

    Michael (2026) Review – The Rise of an Icon

    In one sentence: Michael is a biopic charting Michael Jackson’s rise from child star to global icon that focuses on his musical genius and early life. There has been significant anticipation surrounding the Michael Jackson biopic, not only for its scale, but for what it chooses to include or exclude. Once the biggest star in…

  • Eleanor the Great (2026) Review – Grief, Lies and Connection

    Eleanor the Great (2026) Review – Grief, Lies and Connection

    In one sentence: After the death of her best friend, a lonely woman moves to New York and becomes entangled in a lie that forces her to confront grief, identity and the need for connection. Scarlett Johansson steps behind the camera for her directorial debut with Eleanor the Great and rather than placing herself at…

  • Song Sung Blue (2025) Review – More Than Just a Tribute

    Song Sung Blue (2025) Review – More Than Just a Tribute

    In one sentence: Song Sung Blue follows a struggling performer who teams up with a fellow singer to form a Neil Diamond tribute act, as their partnership evolves into a love story shaped by ambition and hardship. Sometimes there are films you overlook because you assume they just won’t be for you. That was the…

  • The Last Five Years (2014) Review – Love Out of Sync

    The Last Five Years (2014) Review – Love Out of Sync

    In one sentence: In The Last Five Years, a couple’s relationship unfolds across two opposing timelines, revealing how love can grow, shift and ultimately fall apart through differing perspectives. Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and I was fortunate enough to see Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler perform…

  • Project Hail Mary (2026) Review – Science, Survival and Unexpected Friendship

    Project Hail Mary (2026) Review – Science, Survival and Unexpected Friendship

    In one sentence: In Project Hail Mary, a lone scientist awakens aboard a spacecraft with no memory of how he got there, only to discover he is humanity’s last hope and that he may not be alone in his mission. Sci-fi is not always a genre that everyone naturally gravitates towards and Project Hail Mary…

  • Send Help (2026) Review – When Workplace Power Dynamics Wash Ashore

    Send Help (2026) Review – When Workplace Power Dynamics Wash Ashore

    In one sentence: In Send Help, an underappreciated office worker and her privileged boss wash up on a deserted island after a plane crash where their workplace power struggle takes on a far more dangerous form. We often imagine survival situations strip people back to their most basic instincts, removing the structures and hierarchies of…

  • Adore (2013) Review – Tides of Desire

    Adore (2013) Review – Tides of Desire

    In one sentence: Adore follows two lifelong friends who find their bond tested when each begins a secret affair with the other’s son, setting in motion a tangled web of love, loyalty and taboo desire. Cinema frequently explores forbidden love, but rarely with the ambiguous morality and emotional nuance found in Adore. The film challenges…

  • Sinners (2025) Review – Monsters, Men and Moral Reckoning

    Sinners (2025) Review – Monsters, Men and Moral Reckoning

    In one sentence: Sinners follows twin brothers who return to 1930s Mississippi to open a blues bar, only to find themselves trapped overnight when a group of vampires seek entry, turning a place of refuge into a desperate fight for survival. It is not often that a horror film performs strongly at the Oscars, let…