Movies & Streaming Reviews
The latest movies & streaming reviews from Jim Schembri, professional film reviewer since 1980.
Atomic Blonde; The Big Sick; Pacmen
ATOMIC BLONDE ***1/2 (115 minutes) MA After being the only interesting thing in Mad Max: Fury Road and giving the ...
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War For the Planet of the Apes; A Monster Calls; Paris Can Wait
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES **** (140 minutes) M The stirring finale of this outstanding reboot of the ...
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The Beguiled, Tranformers: The Last Knight, Chicken People, Baby Driver, A Ghost Story, Cars 3, McLaren, The Book of Love, Rings, Whitney: Can I Be Me, Rough Night, Despicable Me 3; Roger Donaldson Interview
THE BEGUILED **1/2 (94 minutes) M Sofia Coppola’s soft-focus, dumbed down take on the Civil War sex drama about a ...
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Churchill, The Mummy, My Cousin Rachel, Whitney – Can I Be Me, Hotel Coolgardie, Solace, Dog Eat Dog
CHURCHILL *** (105 minutes) M Though he is commonly regarded as one of the most important politicians of the 20th ...
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Wonder Woman, Baywatch, 20th Century Women, Hounds of Love, The Shack
WONDER WOMAN *** (141 minutes) M We’ve waited long enough for a decent female superhero movie to grace us and, ...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales; Wilson; Whiteley; Norman: the Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES *** (129 minutes) M Just when Disney’s sea-faring fantasy franchise seemed ...
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King Arthur – Legend of the Sword; The Viceroy’s House; The Osiris Child; John Wick – Chapter Two
KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD BOMB (126 minutes) M In Macbeth, one of his better plays, William Shakespeare wrote: ...
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Fate of the Furious, Raw, Table 19, Going in Style, Colossal, Denial, Personal Shopper, Their Finest; Interview with Julia Ducournau
FATE OF THE FURIOUS ***** (136 minutes) M For what it is, Fate of the Furious is a brilliant example ...
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Mad Max: Fury Road; Sunday; A Royal Night Out
Hang on: Tom Hardy plays a tepid anti-hero in the long awaited Mad Max: Fury Road. MAD MAX FURY ROAD ...
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