★★★★½ - THE POST - The Salt Path is a simple wee gem of a film - Raynor Winn and her husband Moth invested their life savings in a friend's business. When that business failed in 2015 the Winns were naïve in the ways of courts and of bastards, and they lost everything they owned and more. Homeles…

★★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN - Cruise does things his way in this eighth and last Mission: Impossible, as his maverick agent Ethan Hunt takes on the ultimate in AI evil - Here it is: the eighth and final film (for now) in the spectacular Mission: Impossible action-thriller franchise, which manifests…

★★★★ - THE POST - Lies We Tell is a historic thriller set to a slow burn - We are in rural Ireland in the 1860s or thereabouts, in a sprawling manor house and estate that goes by the name of Knowl. Nineteen-year-old Maud has inherited Knowl after the death of her beloved dad. Because Maud is so…

★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN - An orphaned Irish teenager spars with her scheming uncle in this insightful reworking of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel - Here is a tightly laced, elegantly cut gothic period drama that might unfairly get overlooked as the barrage of upmarket cinema vying for awards begins. The…

★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN - Queer review – Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s erotic drama - Queer is a story of lost love and last love and mad-about-the-boy obsession, featuring an excellent performance from Daniel Craig – needy, horny, moody, like his Knives Out detective…

★★★★★ - STUFF - Miki Magasiva's haunting, heart-warming debut simply stunning - Mareta Percival (Anapela Polataivao) has always put her kids’ first. Not necessarily her own flesh and blood – teenage daughter Lanita (Tiare Lily Savea) is more than capable of looking after herself – but rather the…