Us Review
Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. Jordan Peele’s follow up to the Oscar winning Ge…
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Transit Review
Where fictional literary adaptations risk little in terms of causing offense (hello Shakespeare), 2018 German-drama Transit walks the fine line between poetic licensing and insensitivity by transition…
The Oath Review
Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. Like standing in the eye of a hurricane, assessing every piece of debris flashing past your face, it often a fool’s…
The Guilty Review
If 55% of communication is made up of body language, then the pressure put on the remaining 45% when it is primarily employed to help create a tense, powerful narrative in a visual medium like film, i…
Triple Frontier Review
When you have the likes of Oscar Isaac, Ben Affleck, Garret Hedlund, Charlie Hunnam, and Pedro Pascal headlining a film you would expect nothing but the best but sadly, with Triple Frontier, you get n…
Destroyer Review
Destroyer is a punch in the gut, every day, for decades. It’s a bruise conjuring force of anguish and aggression that works like a soldering iron on an open wound, cauterising trauma that will never h…
Dogman Review
For the dog lovers out there, we’re used to watching films where dogs are part of the main plot, and inevitably, one of the dogs dies to create some kind of empathetic moment. Fortunately, with Matteo…
The Sisters Brothers Review
I’ve had this review sitting at the top of my ‘to do’ list for a good two weeks now. Yet, whenever I sat down to write, it slipped my mind. I simply forgot that it needed to be done. Which is a mighty…
Next of Kin Bluray Review
Bored. That’s what I was feeling roughly half-way through Next of Kin. But, as it wore on, it surprisingly began to demand my attention, and by the end, I was completely engaged. Next of Kinrevolves a…
Fell Review
Grief is an all-encompassing entity that consumes your life if left untamed. In Kasimir Burgess’ film Fell, the grief that takes residence in Matt Nable’s Thomas after the accidental death of his daug…
If Beale Street Could Talk Review
It doesn't matter that this film stole my heart. I didn't need it anyway. Author James Baldwin’s work has rarely been translated to cinema. I Am Not Your Negro took unpublished writings and p…
We Don't Need a Map Review
Warwick Thornton is a director with an agenda – namely, the agenda to bring Indigenous stories and history to life via cinema. From Samson & Delilah to Sweet Country, he strings a bow that links t…