Film Reviews

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Star Trek: Into Darkness

Ronan Wright | 20 May 2013 |

tags: film reviews

The familiar characters face very contemporary issues of terrorism and militarism in this nicely characterised film.

Iron Man 3

Raffaele Chiarulli | 29 April 2013 |

tags: action movies, film reviews

Shane Black has successfully reinvented Iron Man with a combination of humour and depth.

A Hijacking

Ronan Wright | 22 April 2013 |

tags: film reviews, kidnapping, piracy

This extraordinary Danish film about a merchant ship taken by Somali pirates is a masterpiece of tension and characterisation.

White Elephant

Ronan Wright | 16 April 2013 |

tags: Argentina, film reviews

A gut-wrenching Argentinian drama about life in the sprawling slums of Buenos Aires gives English-speaking viewers an insight into the background of the new Pope.

Mea Maxima Culpa: an exposé of an exposé

Sean Murphy | 02 April 2013 |

tags: film reviews, media ethics, sexual abuse

The scandal of an abusive priest in Wisconsin was ghastly enough. But a powerful documentary misrepresents how the Catholic Church dealt with it.

The truth of the Magdalene Laundries emerges

Ronan Wright | 02 April 2013 |

tags: abuse crisis, film reviews, Ireland

A report by the Irish government fails to back widely-accepted allegations of abuse by Catholic nuns.

Oz the Great and Powerful

Laura Cotta Ramosino | 22 March 2013 |

tags: film reviews

The 3D techniques are beautiful but the plot quite predictable in this prequel to the original Wizard of Oz.

Anna Karenina

Laura Cotta Ramosino | 04 March 2013 |

tags: film reviews, Tolstoy

The latest screen adaptation of Tolstoy's famous novel fails to portray the original's emotional complexity.

“Wadjda” - a breakthrough for Saudi women

Mary O'Neill Le Rumeur | 26 February 2013 |

tags: film reviews, Saudi Arabia

The first feature movie made in Saudi Arabia breaks new ground in other ways also.

A Good Day to Die Hard

Raffaele Chiarulli | 20 February 2013 |

tags: film reviews

Entertaining for action movie lovers, but not a patch on the early films of the Die Hard franchise.

The Last Stand

Raffaele Chiarulli | 11 February 2013 |

tags: film reviews

Arnold Scwartzenegger is back on the big screen, as a real old-time hero - one we have all been missing.

Zero Dark Thirty

Brendan Malone | 08 February 2013 |

tags: film reviews

A film that holds a mirror up to America and confronts it with some tough ethical questions.

Monsieur Lazhar

Andrea Valagussa | 29 January 2013 |

tags: film reviews

Students overwhelmed by the suicide of their teacher learn about the mystery of sufffering through her unlikely substitute.

Amour: does old age have any honour left?

Margaret Somerville | 24 January 2013 |

tags: ageing, euthanasia, film reviews

A harrowing film about a French couple’s struggle with dementia is a powerful but inadequate argument for legalized euthanasia.

Playing for Keeps

Laura Cotta Ramosino | 23 January 2013 |

tags: film reviews, marriage, soccer

George is an ex Peter Pan who is looking for both responsibility and maturity, yet unable to conquer either.

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