Movie reviews of Richard Alaba

The star-studded cast would have enjoyed the frolic and so will any audience if the film is approached in the right way. Review

Ticks all the top boxes for storytelling, casting, filming and action. It really is an epic. Review

Science fiction or comedy, this is neither. Review

The atmosphere is kept tight throughout. For gore fans, It’s a treat. Review

Despite star billing, meticulously crafted sets and evocative soft-focus atmospherics, this is one Blanchett film that struggles to inspire. Review

An outstanding modern adaptation of an all-time classic. Review

It soars higher, above the rom-com ebbs and flows of young love dreaming into the future. Review

An entertaining, if somewhat clichéd story of feminine triumphalism in the fabricated-value world of television commerce. Review

In place of the cowboy’s happy ending, their fate enshrines them as saints of the sisterhood and icons of the feminist film genre. Review

Both a tragic love story and a profoundly heroic film. Review

A wonderfully crafted film, but unsettling in its ability to leave you yearning. Review

It has a vacuous and incoherent narrative arc, its characters are all tired old cultist clichés... Review

A bitter-sweet love story that goes beyond gender boundaries... Review

A moving story about the unbounded nature of a mother’s love... Review

A moving film that lingers in the memory long after the final image of a lonely road fades to black. Review

Poverty-porn of the worst kind and not an honest documentary. Review