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For all its claims of authenticity, Warfare is deeply deceptive. It starts by misleading you, a claim is put forward that ‘this film only uses their memories’ (their being the soldiers depicted therein). On a number of levels, this is profoundly untrue but the way it is untrue is deeply revealing about the film itself. 

Let’s start out linguistically, the key offenders are the determiner, ‘this’, the adverb, ‘only’ and the verb ‘uses’. The determiner is picked out…

Originally conceived as a Netflix TV series, with two episodes penned by Cronenberg before the project was canned. From that, we have The Shrouds. In of unrealised TV series that ended up as films, don't mistake this for Cronenberg's Mulholland Dr.. ittedly, it is deeply strange and enigmatic but it's also just incredibly messy. It bears all the hallmarks of a wider project condensed down. The pacing is peculiar (the final act far too rushed), there are far more…

The ever reliable James Wong (consistent deliverer of 3 star experiences) comes undone. The worst aspects of his previous works become the only aspects here: terrible character work, simplistic yet rushed narratives, prosaic general direction and some action that just doesn’t work on screen. The real thing that’s wrong with this film is actually very simple: it’s everything. 

Every aspect is bad. No aspect is good. 

I don’t know Dragon Ball. I could list some characters, and happily would, but…

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick put forward a far reaching epic that would take us to the year 2001 in order to explore human culture. Reader, if you really want to understand human culture in a way that relates to 2001, go no further than James Wong’s seminal film, The One. 

Maybe it’s not the breadth of human experience on celluloid but it is 2001 bottled. When future scientists and archeologists ask what 2001 was like, this film will be the…

Soren Kirkergaard wrote that 'life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards'. Aftersun is an impressionistic portrait of this truism, an intricate web of framing devices that comes across as effortless.

In fact, describing Aftersun makes it sound so much more complicated than it is. The film presents three narrative perspectives, all adopting the lens of Sophie (Frankie Corio), the daughter of Calum (Paul Mescal) (the father and daughter relationship that the film entirely revolves around).…

I like to think that if this was released now, it would be torn apart by audiences, rather than just a few critics. I like to think it would be roundly rejected and would inspire frequent think pieces that were also full of recommendations of what you should watch instead.

But then I Green Book won best picture and that this film’s overt popularity is because it gives the people what they want. It gives them the stereotype of…