Reviews

The 1980s period detail is spot on, so too are the observations about generational differences and how things come around (Harry, younger than Adam, sports a similar moustache to Adam's dad and prefers 'queer' to 'gay'). ...

Adam Driver crash-lands his spaceship on a planet full of dinosaurs and proceeds to have less fun than that summary might suggest. ...

A Man Called Otto is adapted from the book A Man Called Ove, and the film of the same name. ...

Brilliantly bonkers slice of genre-defying multiverse madness from the people who brought you 2016's Swiss Army Man. ...

(A second viewing might reveal whether the film references are a little over-egged - I felt at times the film was a bit too soundtrack-heavy, but that's really the only criticism I have.) ...

The film starts with the sound of an orchestra tuning up and then some gunshots and honestly it stays like that pretty much all the way through the film. ...

The huge scope and spectacle of it is both its greatest strength and greatest weakness - while it does succeed in managing multiple plot strands as different characters try to stop Thanos in different ways across the galaxy, and it does successfully give these characters their own emotional beats al... ...

The whole premise of the film seems built around the idea that Barnum is creating something fun for the mass that stuffy critics just dont get because they dont know how to have fun and I think the makers of this film firmly believe thats what they are doing with this film. ...

Theres also a sense that the showy explicitness of this sex scene (and another towards the end of the film) are slightly at odds with the message of the rest of the film. ...

But if you don't care about any of that and just want to see your favourite comic book characters brought on life on the screen, battling it out and saving the world, there are worse films you could watch. ...