Jake Abatan

‘Monkey Man’ Review: Dev Patel Delivers A Punchy Directorial Debut Dev Patel makes his directorial debut with Monkey Man, a bloody revenge action movie to rival John […]

Festival Picks: Highlights from Berlinale 2024 Jake Abatan shares three festival highlights from this year’s 74th annual Berlinale, which took place in F […]

‘Past Lives’ Berlinale Review: A Richly Felt Romantic Drama One of the most deeply affecting films in competition at 2023’s Berlinale tells a story of diasporic love s […]

For audiences growing tired of the MCU’s multiverse madness, the childish and irreverent Thor: Love and Thunder feels like a welcome escape.

★★★✰✰

Overburdened with a self-seriousness and distinct la […]

Sofia Coppola’s richly crafted and emotionally poignant films have been severely undervalued by contemporary critics. Perhaps this is down to her “unapologetically hyperfeminine aesthetic”, or the fact that she d […]

In Everything Everywhere All At Once Michelle Yeoh plays an overburdened wife, mother, and small business owner whose reality splits apart during a tax audit. 

★★★✰✰

With a title as hyperbolic as Everything […]

Nicolas Cage confronts his larger-than-life persona in this brilliant meta-infused action comedy.

★★★★★

Nick Cage is Nick Cage. That’s the simple, yet hugely appealing premise to The Unbearable Weight of M […]

Harry Wootliff’s latest film is a sensual tale of tainted love, told from a refreshingly feminine perspective.★★★✰✰

Adapted from the Deborah Kay Davies novel True Things About Me, the newest film from emergi […]

Jacques Audiard’s monochrome anthology of Parisian love shows that dating in the digital age is far from black and white

★★★★★

There’s a fable-like quality to this distinctly contemporary drama, adapte […]

Guillermo del Toro’s first film since 2018’s The Shape Of Water is a grotesque noir—but one you won’t want to take your eyes off. 

★★★✰✰

“Take a look at yourself sinner” reads a funhouse sign near the […]

This first documentary from Andrea Arnold follows the mundane existence of a dairy cow named Luma. 

★★★✰✰

Cow opens with the birth of a calf, viscerally captured up close by a handheld camera. It’s a cru […]

Philip Barantini trades in the kitchen sink for a pressure cooker in realist British drama Boiling Point. Stephen Graham stars as Head Chef Andy, just barely keeping it together in the swirling world of staff […]

Paul Thomas Anderson trains a lens back on his native Los Angeles with Licorice Pizza—a heavy slice of nostalgia topped with absurdist comedy. 

★★★★✰

“Licorice Pizza” describes an unholy concoction of th […]

19 years after Metroid Fusion, and in a world now brimming with Metroidvanias, Metroid Dread provides a thrilling end to the Samus Aran saga. 

It’s been a long time since Metroid fans have been able to ex […]

This film is being screened as part of the 2021 BFI London Film Festival and you can find all of our coverage of the festival here

This time trading in the pastel for monochrome, Wes Anderson is back with […]

*Please note: this review discusses spoilers concerning The Souvenir (2019)

This film is being screened as part of the 2021 BFI London Film Festival and you can find all of our coverage of the festival […]

Having hung up his 00 status to start a new life with Madeleine Swann, No Time To Die starts with an old friend pulling Bond back onto the world stage for one last mission. Bond is back, and his timing is […]

Social media antics: check. Elaborate listening parties: check. Disastrous release schedule: check. Kanye West’s long anticipated tenth studio album ‘Donda’ is finally here.

Kanye West’s public image has bee […]

29 years after the original, that name is back on everyone’s lips. ‘Candyman’ sees the titular boogeyman return at the hands of up and coming artist Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), who finds that the myth r […]