Movie reviews by Chris Evans
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Resident Evil: AfterlifePaul W.S. Anderson returns to the director’s chair for the fourth installment of the Resident Evil horror franchise with more guns, blood and zombies than ever before and all in…
The Secret in their EyesArgentinian director Juan Jose Campanella has proven with his latest film, The Secret In Their Eyes, that small budget foreign-language films can compete with the big boys as the excellent thriller…
The Brothers BloomRian Johnson’s new drama The Brothers Bloom comes across like a Wes Anderson movie, combining screwball comedy, action adventure and film noir with a slick professional looking sheen glossed over the…
City of Life and DeathLu Chuan’s City Of Life And Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!) is the most brutal, but brilliant, war film I have seen in a long time. From start to finish it is un-relentlessly harrowing in its depiction of…
The Scouting Book For BoysBafta award winning shorts director Tom Harper makes his feature debut with this coming of age drama, starring rising British talent Thomas Turgoose of This Is England fame in the central role as…
ChloeThe most striking thing about multi award-winning Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s film Chloe is the actress Amanda Seyfried who plays the title character. The transition from teeny bop all singing,…
Mother And ChildColombian director Rodrigo Garcia has already proven to be an adept director of dramas both for TV with Six Feet Under and The Sopranos, and small feature films such as Nine Lives. But it is with…
Ice Age: Dawn of the DinosaursThe third installment of this animation adventure film series is certainly not one for the cynical adult moviegoer, but I’m sure the executives at Fox International, the film’s distributors, won’t be…
The Scouting Book For Boys
Bafta award winning shorts director Tom Harper makes his feature debut with this coming of age drama, starring rising British talent Thomas Turgoose of This Is England fame in the central role as a…
Bafta award winning shorts director Tom Harper makes his feature debut with this coming of age drama, starring rising British talent Thomas Turgoose of This Is England fame in the central role as a…
The Class (Entre les murs)Laurent Cantet's docu-drama set in a tough Parisian school was a worthy winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival last year, and is a serious contender for an Oscar in the foreign…
Vicky Cristina BarcelonaWoody Allen has re-emerged from the ashes of his exploits in England with this delightfully light, but sparky romantic comedy set in…
Stranger Than FictionWill Ferrell playing a bland tax man who’s every move is narrated by the irritating drones of Emma Thompson may not sound like an enticing prospect, but strangely this film has a lot to offer and its…
Casino RoyaleThe reinvention of 007 after a successful run with Pierce Brosnan in the lead was a big gamble for the film’s producers, Barbara Brocolli and Michael G Wilson, especially with a blonde actor playing…
The MagicianAustralians tend to produce films from completely opposite ends of the spectrum, either farsical, but edgy comedies like Muriels Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert or…
An American HauntingThis formulaic horror movie mirrors its predecessors, The Ring and The Village, with scary girls in white gowns and long hair, and chase scenes through the woods, without ever establishing an image…
CapotePhilip Seymour Hoffman’s victory at the Oscars for his performance as celebrated US writer Truman Capote came as a surprise to no one. For the duration of the film, Hoffman steals the show, showing…
FeedThe director of this gore fest, Brett Leonard, hardly inspired confidence when he told those in attendance at the screening that he would be in London for a few days working on the latest Highlander…
Lady VengeanceThere has been a wave of Asian movies crashing onto our cinema screens of late, and riding atop that wave is South Korean director Park…
JarheadI had high hopes for this film as an illustration of the disastrous political landscape caused by the American military's gung-ho approach to war with little or no forethought for the plight of the…
Brokeback Mountain In Hollywood’s first homosexual cowboy movie, the two leading characters, played sensitively by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, are drawn together as shepherds in the vast wilderness of the Rocky…
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