Movie reviews of Alice Bishop

1975, Documentary

Depressive entertainment at its finest, Grey Gardens speaks to both the misunderstood and the unloved...

2017, Drama, Comedy

Funny in inference yet too fast paced to match the beat of a happy heart...

2018, Drama, History, War

Hemsworth and co. deliver the goods as expected, galloping and sniping their way to a decent action movie...

2003, Drama, Action, Suspense, Mystery

A confident, practically Shakespearean mystery-thriller which delights in peeling back the layers of its narrative at a breathless pace.

1986, Animation, Drama, Comedy, War

A haunting depiction of innocence in times of chaos.

2018, Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Excels with a bonkers premise, proving quirky and engaging despite the limitations of its family-friendly set-up.

2018, Drama, History

Factually accurate where necessary but conveniently blindsided by the opportunity to manufacture another Meryl Streep nominations movie...

2018, Drama, Action, Suspense, Crime, Mystery

Delivers the thrills but fails to muster the stamina to overcome conceptual exhaustion.

2017, Adventure, Animation

Aces it with both character and setting, leaving us weeping beyond the credits without a single pang of sadness to ruin a Saturday afternoon.

2018, Horror, Suspense, Mystery

Hangs on by a thread to the series’ original concept, proving no better than the average Paranormal Activity movie...

2017, Drama, History

Sees a great make-up job disguised as a memorable history piece...

2017, Drama, Comedy, Science fiction

Socially aware without stating its motives, using the odd sight gag to pad out reams of drifting fodder.

1984, Drama, Crime

Sergio Leone gives us something to cry about in the aftermath of irreversible loss and unforgotten memories.

2017, Drama, Suspense, Crime, Mystery

Has all the tools but little to care for in its tale of unnecessary betrayal and callous greed.

2017, Drama, Crime

Laboriously paced with an unearned 140 minute run-time yet consistently attention-grabbing with the glamorous Jessica Chastain...

1962, Drama, Action, History

An edge-of-your-seat thriller with the precision and patience to thoroughly explore all that its genre has to offer...

2017, Drama, Suspense

Mature in some ways but undeveloped in others...

2017, Drama

Proves utterly lost as a work of semi-fiction, giving us little to applaud in the closing credits...

2017, Fantasy, Action, Crime

An awful metaphor made with the subtlety of a mass shooting and the direction of a broken compass...

2017, Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy

The kind of dopey performance funfair that one might expect from a contemporary reboot of a family classic...

2017, Adventure, Fantasy, Science fiction

Presents a new angle with an unyielding respect for all that came before it...

2017, Drama, Comedy

Slips into familiar territory...

1960, Drama, Comedy, Love

Both quick-witted and switched-on, an old-school but ageless classic...

1984, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy

A horror movie with an eye for transcribing the good, the bad, and the ugly of the holiday season through an allegorical tale...