2010s
Is Pokémon Detective Pikachu a classic telling of the Pokémon journey? No, but is it a welcome glare of personality and hope? Absolutely.
Begging to be experienced, discussed, and remembered, Mosul follows a former CIA counter-terrorism officer documenting a journalist in war-torn Iraq.
The 27 Club is a cheaply made streaming title with little to no thought put into it – there was a seed of an idea here but nobody to tend the garden.
Game of Thrones’ bad writing of Sansa and Brienne and the racially fraught implications of the episode’s ending, make this episode a huge letdown.
Just Say Goodbye is a laudable strive to enlarge the implications and the all-inclusive consequences of suicide.
With the most creative kills anywhere, a deeper mythology, and great additions to the cast, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is even more deadly and enjoyable.
Tolkien is competently made, beautifully visualised and at times even excellent, with Nicholas Hoult providing much needed heart in the lead.
The Biggest Little Farm is a gorgeous documentary on par with the raw beauty of Planet Earth or any other nature documentary.
Subversive, icky and incessantly spellbinding, writer-director Anthony Stabley operates artistically well in Everlasting.
Young adult love stories will always have an audience, but After was trite, formulaic, and lacking in any kind of sparkle.
Like Miyazaki, Kosaika focuses on growth as a result of loss and ties it with the spiritual and fantasy world in Okko’s Inn.
Tell It to the Bees is a pretty dreary period piece, and one that doesn’t sit well in the current landscape of queer cinema.
The Chaperone is a film that’ll be gone by the month’s end, swallowed by the studio system and erased by this year’s loaded summer season.
Despite few releases due to Avengers and politics, cinemagoers were served with two major Bollywood releases this month: Romeo Akbar Walter and Kalank.
Diamantino is too insufferably quirky to offer any meaningful statement on the socio-political issues it references.