In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much more…
Film Review - Zootopia 2
If you love Shakira’s vocals, slow burn romances, justice, and films that encourage critical thinking, then Zootopia 2 is the film for you.
Film Review - Nuremberg
A good historical film doesn’t need to be perfectly accurate, but it does need to portray its era with enough authenticity to spark fascination and encourage viewers to learn more.
Film Review - Lurker
Lurker is an impressive independent film that presents itself as a cautionary tale for the modern and inter-connected world we live in today.
Film Review - Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
Now You See Me: Know You Don’t is a magic act you’ve seen before.
Film Review - Wicked: For Good
Wicked: For Good is good, not great. But that’s okay - it still manages to hold space for an extremely emotionally satisfying ending.
Film Review - Keeper
Oz Perkins’s Keeper is a film that wears its intentions on its sleeve: intimate horror wrapped in relationship anxiety, an exercise in dread that occasionally achieves something quietly memorable.
Film Review - The Running Man
Ultimately, The Running Man (2025) is a curious beast: a film that wants to critique spectacle while indulging in it, that gestures toward emotional depth but never earns it.
Film Review - Predator: Badlands
If you’re here for scale, spectacle, and a smartly realised peek into the Predator society, Badlands is a satisfying hunt.
Film Review - Die, My Love
Die My Love excels as a showcase for Lawrence and Pattinson, two actors at the top of their A-game.
Film Review - After the Hunt
Fans of Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Julia May Jonas’ Vladimir will enjoy After the Hunt’s refusal to do the thinking for you.
Film Review - Shelby Oaks
Shelby Oaks is a fine horror film with flashes of promise, but too many inherited ideas and not enough discernible passion.
Monster Fest 2025 Film Review - Shell
Through a series of confounding creative decisions, Shell decries superficiality, yet refuses to look anything less than polished.
Film Review - Black Phone 2
Arriving a mere two years after the first film scared up a minor success at the box office, Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2 leans into its lineage and then sharpens its teeth […]
Film Review - Bugonia
Bugonia refuses the safety of well-worn genre fare and instead thrives in its own damp moral fog.
Film Review - Life After
Life After (2025) lifts heavy in its turbulent journey through moral dilemmas.
Film Review - The Smashing Machine
The Smashing Machine is a star turn for Dwayne Johnson, and sadly, very little else.
Film Review - The Strangers: Chapter 2
If you’re absolutely craving a modern slasher, wait to stream it with friends, popcorn, and maybe a beer or two, but just don’t expect too much in the way of carnage or catharsis.
Film Review - Splitsville
The joy of Splitsville is in watching its craziness unfold with no indication of where it’s going next, and I hope every person's first experience with it is as exciting as mine.
Film Review - One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another is an instant classic: a restless, thrilling action flick that’s concerned not with some war in a fictional universe or far-off land, but an honest-to-god boots-on-the-ground war within modern America.
Film Review - The Conjuring: Last Rites
Even though Last Rites' final moments were somewhat heart-warming as a fan of the first two, its catharsis is wasted on something which could’ve been so much better.