Shepherds and Butchers (2016)

Shepherds and Butchers’s biggest failing is its inability to consider race with any nuance – surprising, given its apartheid-era setting.

Live By Night (2016)

Live By Night begins as the gangster film we’ve seen before – Boston, molls, tommy guns and prohibition.

A xXx movie doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in 2017, but maybe it doesn’t need to.

Teen self-sabotage: don’t do it. (Do go see The Edge of Seventeen, though. It’s great.)

Assassin’s Creed is a disaster: a morass of muddled imagery, incoherent plotting and dreadful screenwriting.

On the surface, The Boy and the Beast has much in common with director Mamoru Hosoda’s previous film, Wolf Children.

Sophia Takal’s Always Shine opens with one of the best sequences of the year.

Good thing The Wait has some serious formal heft, or the whole exercise would be intolerable.

Mustang’s sisters are confined, but this is a story of their resistance as much as it is a story of their imprisonment.

Someone decided that a frothy fanservice anime needed to emulate Neon Genesis Evangelion’s labyrinthine seriousness. Someone was wrong.