Metro (UK)

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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
4/5
On the Basis of Sex (2019)
2
3/5
Cold Pursuit (2019)
Viewers will either hop aboard the black comedy or make like Laura Dern (here playing Neeson's wife) and exit early.
Posted Feb 20, 2019
3
5/5
Capernaum (Capharnaüm) (2018)
Deep breathing is required to get you through some of the movie's tougher scenes but, as a whole, it's a testimony to human resilience and the astonishing power of hope.
Posted Feb 20, 2019
4
3
Justice League (2017)
Ezra Miller and Wonder Woman can only do so much to save a film of stilted dialogue, bad direction, inexplicable angles and a plot that quite frankly is boring.
Posted Feb 14, 2019
5
4
The Hate U Give (2018)
It is at times tough to watch and never shies away from showing other points of view, often using black comedy to do so
Posted Feb 14, 2019
6
3
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
7
3/5
The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
Given our current level of #BrexitShambles despair, it's a timely tonic to have a film extolling hope in an age when 'hearts are hollow and the land is lost and leaderless'.
Posted Feb 12, 2019
8
3/5
Instant Family (2018)
Don't expect any real grit, though: the Hollywood ending slips down as easily as warm chocolate sauce.
Posted Feb 12, 2019
9
A Private War (2018)
10
4/5
It's unclear if this is about how the genders play differently, toxic masculinity or growing up. But it's still tons of fun, if a little forgettable.
Posted Feb 6, 2019
11
5/5
If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)
The plot could be straight out of a soap opera but, as its Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay suggests, the script offers something far more textured and complex
Posted Feb 6, 2019
12
4/5
Green Book (2018)
There are a few cheesy moments as the two men learn life lessons from each other but the acting is a joy, the co-stars coaxing complexities from their characters.
Posted Jan 30, 2019
13
4/5
14
5/5
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
15
3/5
The Mule (2018)
While it's a little clunky, with Earl's casual racism likely to trouble some, it's gently paced and the script is wryly amusing
Posted Jan 22, 2019
16
4/5
Vice (2018)
It's an exhilarating explosion of a biopic.
Posted Jan 22, 2019
17
2/5
Destroyer (2018)
Directed by Karyn Kusama, it's a grim watch, which proves perversely compelling - up to a point.
Posted Jan 22, 2019
18
2/5
Glass (2019)
M Night Shyamalan's trilogy isn't a shattering disappointment, Glass is so out to dazzle you with its convoluted universe-folding that it becomes a turn-off.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
19
4/5
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
It's not a perfect film, as you'd expect from a debut, but it's a gutsy and gorgeous landmark.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
20
3/5
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Beautiful Boy is just all too pretty and weirdly unemotive. It's less a satisfying movie than a beautifully burnished actors' showcase.
Posted Jan 16, 2019
21
3/5
The Front Runner (2018)
Not Reitman's most exciting work but still a watchable political thriller.
Posted Jan 9, 2019
22
4/5
Stan & Ollie (2019)
23
4/5
Colette (2018)
24
4/5
An endearingly honest, darkly comic account of one man overcoming his past.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
25
3/5
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)
26
5/5
A Star Is Born (2018)
27
2/5
The Happytime Murders (2018)
In the end, The Happytime Murders offers what's in the trailer, and very little else.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
28
3/5
The Festival (2018)
It takes a little while to get going, but once it does The Festival is a funny take on a British summer institution.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
29
2/5
Characters are barely developed, their motivations seem flimsy, and the film's third act (set in a cavernous private mansion) is plain ridiculous.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
30
3/5
Breaking In (2018)
Quick, disposable entertainment that leaves you wanting to see Union given a meatier action role.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
31
3/5
Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
A pleasant if unremarkable family film that will do just enough to keep young fans happy.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
32
4/5
Journeyman (2017)
A moving tale of love and conflict, told by two wonderful British actors.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
33
3/3
Wonderstruck (2017)
Wonderstruck is absolutely gorgeous, but doesn't have the substance to back that up.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
34
2/5
Proud Mary (2018)
The idea of Henson as a cool action hero is something most movie fans can get excited for, but she needed a much better film than this.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
35
2/5
Mary Magdalene (2018)
A well-constructed drama, but one that will inform rather than inspire.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
36
1/5
Peter Rabbit (2018)
A 24 carrot flop
Posted Jan 8, 2019
37
4/5
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
The dark heart of Lynne Ramsay's latest may be too brutal for some, but You Were Never Really Here is a terrific piece of film making
Posted Jan 8, 2019
38
2/5
Wonder Wheel (2017)
If matters outside of film making mean this is one of (Allen's) final movies, it's a flat note to go out on.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
39
4/5
I, Tonya (2018)
A delightfully acerbic look into a poisoned American Dream, where adulation is worth going to prison for.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
40
5/5
Lady Bird (2017)
Lady Bird is a film that describes the joys, mistakes and dramas of teenage years more eloquently than anything you might see this year.
Posted Jan 8, 2019
41
1/5
Life Itself (2018)
Half an hour in (if you're generous) and you'll realise you don't give a hoot about any of them. Avoid.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
42
5/5
The Favourite (2018)
This is The Crown like you've never seen it before.
Posted Jan 3, 2019
43
2/5
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
44
3/5
Lizzie (2018)
Retelling the story from the female perspective, it's rather sterile at times, hampered by flaccid pacing. But Sevigny is unforgettable as Borden.
Posted Dec 19, 2018
45
3/5
Papillon (2018)
Both men put in good work but their bromance never convincingly ignites in this solid but anonymous effort by Danish director Michael Noer.
Posted Dec 19, 2018
46
3/5
Bumblebee (2018)
47
5/5
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Emily Blunt sails serenely down from the sky on the end of a kite, she makes this role her own.
Posted Dec 13, 2018
48
3/5
White Boy Rick (2018)
Thought-provoking points about racial injustice are raised, only to be sketched over by the script. Still, where White Boy Rick hooks you in is as a family drama.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
49
3/5
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
Essentially a love letter to Redford's own screen career, it helps if you share his twinkle-eyed nostalgia for roguish criminals.
Posted Dec 5, 2018
50
5/5
Sorry to Bother You (2018)