Buried was proof that nobody in Hollywood can play bruised and exhausted better than Reynolds

Martha's narrative works like a fractured psyche, making us feel just as vulnerable as Martha, never sure if we're safe or certain of where we are.

In fact, despite Caine’s clear desire to pay for an extension to his house, he does seem to have fun with the role

I was rather alarmed at the almost total absence of hats

Red Tails functions as a sort of feel-good rah-rah picture the likes of which Hollywood doesn't make about war anymore

Running to around 90 minutes, Chronicle is an urgent, lean and sinewy piece of filmmaking, shot and edited with quiet confidence

If you have a physically gifted star, you shouldn't have to shoot around him as much as this movie does

It seems as if Soderbergh doesn’t really understand the genre at all, and if he does, then it feels as if he’s looking down on it, which is even worse

The whole first act feels like Farming: The Movie

There are undeniable flashes of brilliance within Shame, but they can’t stand up under the pressure of its inescapable monotony

I have never heard an entire theater groan en masse like I did at the finale of this particular movie

A curiously airless film which gallops through a congratulation of Thatcher’s career at such a pace you’d feel better informed by a Wikipedia page

It’s like Fight Club on ice at times, with every slug, every drop of blood and every beating heavily focused on

In this alternate universe, the moral and emotional heart of the First World War resides in Joey, a young nag from Devon.