Annabelle movie review: everything that is wrong with movies today
A yawningly empty movie, the epitome of brainless, heartless, soulless, shameless cash-grab corporate filmmaking.
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In Darkness We Fall (aka La cueva) movie review (London Film Festival)
An effective mood of claustrophobia cannot overcome the fact that you’ve seen this all before, and better.
Honeymoon movie review (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
Very effective in creating an unsettling mood, but its horrific, fantastic speculation ends, frustratingly, just when it could have gotten really intriguing.
The Guest movie review: making cheesy 80s sausage
THE SOFT PRETTY ENGLISH ACTOR: I’m tired of all these damn television costume drama roles. Get me something totally badass.
Deliver Us from Evil movie review: weak spirits
A rote police procedural conducted by a cardboard movie cop investigating a supposedly demonic evil that simply cannot compete with nonsupernatural reality.
The Purge: Anarchy movie review: standing up to power and privilege
Doubles down on the first film’s angry approach to inequality and violence, and again reflects an image of America that is ugly but only slightly distorted.
Pluto movie rating: yellow light
Brings a socially aware twist to the Korean horror genre, but ultimately fizzles as a cultural cautionary tale.
Coherence movie review: night out of mind
Deploys twisty sci-fi concepts to warp the almost-clichéd dinner-party soap opera into a horror story of the human condition in the face of quantum philosophy.
Miss Violence movie review: keep it in the family
Deeply unnerving, yet it borders on a salacious exploitation of the everyday horrors it means to condemn.
The German Doctor (aka Wakolda) movie review: don’t mention the war
The subtle veil of horror draped over things we take for granted as good and wonderful aspects of humanity is deeply unsettling…
