28/100

Fan-fiction quality. A few chuckles were had at some of the more oddball moments (Grindelwald smoking a hookah to see into the future was a winner), but the majority is aggressively nondescript. Despite a baffling quasi-first-person opening, it looks fine. Sounds fine too, and that’s all good and well but positives like these are nullified when rammed head-first into a humdrum attempt at stretching out something so hackneyed. Shame, because Redmayne’s Newt would make for a lovely centrepiece if…

It's difficult to articulate the skin-crawling, bone-chilling and spine-tingling aura of Denis Villeneuve's Enemy. In the full 90 minutes, we cross and recross the emotional spectrum all the while mesmerised by the films surreal tone and eeriness. Mystifying to all upon first inspection, the film was never intended for lethargic audiences. It was intended for the analytical and inquisitive who constantly and passionately congregate the clues in an attempt to solve the bamboozling riddle. I, myself, may not have unlocked…

The arresting fashion in which Darren Aronofsky injects profundity into a predominantly superficial genre may be the most impressive accomplishment of the resplendent and epic Noah. Aronofsky, a filmmaker with the incessant purpose to innovate and redefine, puts forth one of his most divergent motion pictures but simultaneously one of his most mainstream with this re-imagining of Noah's ark. A true blockbuster on the surface, the sweeping temperament of Noah is uncommonly matched with intelligence and a bonafide, gravitating narrative…