Film Reviews

Mark Rylance dresses to kill in refreshingly old-fashioned gangland drama The Outfit

Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas erotic thriller Deep Water seductively whispers: Who thought this was a good idea?

Wonderful lo-fi sci-fi After Yang will make you dream of electric sheep, and Colin Farrell

Regina-set South Asian dramedy Donkeyhead gets tantalizingly close to breaking new ground

Canadian family film The Wolf and the Lion goes to the dogs

Netflix’s The Adam Project has 1.21 gigawatts of Ryan Reynolds super-smarm

Turning Red is top-tier Pixar, no matter your love or hate for Toronto

Heartbreaking Indigenous drama Wildhood triumphs, even when treading bleak spaces

Stylish, terrifying rom-com Fresh is an online-dating movie out for Bumble blood

Oliver Stone moves from conspiracy theories to ‘conspiracy facts’ with provocative JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

Horse-racing drama Jockey races to finish line thanks to Clifton Collins Jr.

Robert Pattinson propels The Batman to gigantic, delightfully creepy superhero heights

Cyrano soars thanks to a towering performance from Peter Dinklage

Tremendous coming-of-age drama Scarborough is a micro-budget masterpiece of Canadian film

Hats, and heads, off to creators of Netflix’s nicely gnarly Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel

Channing Tatum unleashes a crowd-pleasing brain holiday with new movie Dog

The Cursed is no ordinary slash-and-snarl fandango

Not even Spider-Man himself can save the dreadful Uncharted’s contempt for its audience

Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson save Marry Me from its irreconcilable rom-com differences

Bananas Céline Dion biopic Aline has moments of gold and flashes of light

Siri, can you please improve Steven Soderbergh’s latest pandemic-era experiment Kimi?

Liam Neeson has too few butts to kick in the embarrassing, bottom-of-barrel Blacklight

Beguiling romance Compartment No. 6 is Russia’s answer to Before Sunrise

Kenneth Branagh’s moustache slays in Death on the Nile, but his co-stars are left dead in the water

Penelope Cruz dominates Pedro Almodóvar’s soul-saving melodrama Parallel Mothers

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll throw up: Jackass Forever finds gain in pain

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America turns incendiary history into a dry lecture

Woody Allen’s gag is finally up with the tired, preposterous Rifkin’s Festival

Wonderful new romance What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? will make you a Mubi devotee

Netflix’s spelling bee comedy Definition, Please spells success for the South Asian community

Asghar Farhadi’s Amazon Prime Video drama A Hero proves that the truth won’t set you free

Excellent drama Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy another epic in miniature from director of Drive My Car

Jessica Chastain’s The 355 is harmless spy nonsense that’s perfectly timed for January doldrums

George Clooney’s The Tender Bar is drunk on its own mediocrity

American Underdog fumbles its faith-based filmmaking

Denzel Washington’s melodramatic A Journal for Jordan is out of step with reality