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Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda 3
Third time around and you may think the gag about a bumbling panda being a Kung Fu master is wearing thin, but no, Po is as entertaining as ever.
Our review of Batman v Superman
Before seeing a preview of this superhero superclash, reviewers were advised multiple times not to put spoilers out into world ...
Movie review: Risen
This American film starts off as as swords and sandals detective story, with Jesus the missing person, before defaulting to a hollow gospel drama.
Our review of 10 Cloverfield Lane
Producer J.J. Abrams sure knows how to release a film. In 2007, he launched a mysterious trailer for an unnamed sci-fi film at a Transformers screening, creating a buzz that saw Cloverfield, as it was soon to be known, collect just over US$170 million.
Alex Casey: Gods of Egypt
In the stark, filmic landscape that lies beyond the Oscars, there is nothing but badly CGI-ed tumbleweed.
Review: Sun and stars make a splash
Ralph Fiennes couldn't make a bigger splash if he tried, rampaging through director Luca Guadagnino's relationship drama.
Movie review: Gods of Egypt 3D
Soap opera melodrama and visual effects wizardry combine in a mythical Egyptian fantasy adventure - and it's an uncomfortable mix.
Movie review: Mahana
The first local release of the year is an impressive adaptation of Witi Ihimaera's 1994 novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies.
Alex Casey: Zoolander 2
It has taken me a while to process things in the aftermath of Zoolander 2.
Review: Film a fine portrayal of human horror
The story of the Sonderkommando, the "special units" of Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps forced to assist with the exterminations of the Final Solution, has been little-told in the cinema.
Maggie Smiths latest film a 'dame' good time
If you liked the arched eyebrow of the dowager countess at Downton Abbey, you just have to get a load of this.
Review: Rom-com's lesson fails to deliver
Director Christian Ditter has already tackled rom-coms with British film Love, Rosie, but in How to Be Single he goes from riffing on one relationship to wrangling a clutch of them, with the ensemble piece getting the better of him.
Our review of 'frivolous' Zoolander 2
There was little about 2001's Zoolander that warranted a sequel, and yet here it is.
Oscar nominated movie a 'masterpiece'
When Patricia Highsmith wrote The Price of Salt in 1952, its subject matter was so taboo that she needed to use a pseudonym, Claire Morgan.
Sick of superhero movies? This is the movie for you
You have to wonder how this exchange slipped past Deadpool's financial executives.
Review: Little Room to move
Warning: If you missed the book and don't know what the room is in Room, what follows may contain more spoilers than you need.
Review: Chris Pine's sea rescue story 'lacks urgency'
Chris Pine and Casey Affleck play two real-life US Coast Guard sailors who saved 32 men from a sinking oil tanker off Cape Cod in the winter of 1952.
You need to see this film
Journalists are constantly exasperated by the depiction of journalism in the movies: crusading reporters who never take notes write their own (very bad) headlines for stories based on hunches, improbable disclosures, lucky breaks and dramatic confrontatio
Review: Raunchy road trip makes for 'pointless' comedy
Other than starring in David O. Russell films, in recent years seven-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner Robert De Niro has taken to appearing in lightweight films reassuring baby boomers they're relevant, and can still party large.
Review: Love conquers sexual politics
Predictably and understandably, this film about one of the first known people to undergo a surgical sex change has been criticised for tweaking the historical record and, more sophisticatedly, for its heteronormative approach to a transgender story.
Review: Oscar nominated film 'bland'
It's hardly surprising that stories of immigrants to the Land of the Free have such a proud cinematic history: the immigrant experience has everything - risk, longing, regret, hope, danger - that makes for great drama.
Review: Penguin's pal saves the day in new kids movie
If you're looking for a sweet family film to entertain the younger kids these holidays, Oddball will do the trick.
Movie review: The Big Short
The Big Short is equal parts goofy crime caper and cold-blooded rage against the machine that created the Global Financial Crisis.