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In the Grey feels like the sort of anonymous streaming-era action thriller that would quietly appear on Netflix one Friday afternoon and be forgotten by Monday morning.

Guy Ritchie’s ‘In The Grey’ is all plan and no personality

The legendary director’s latest thriller boasts a strong cast and explosive finale but lacks the colourful characters and charm that defined his best work

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play an engaged couple on shaky ground in ‘The Drama’.

‘The Drama’: A dark comedy about thought, guilt, and perception

A pre-wedding confession spirals into paranoia and hilarity, as The Drama probes how our hidden thoughts reshape love, trust, and identity.

‘Project Hail Mary‘ finds humour in the void

Ryan Gosling anchors a visually stunning sci-fi epic that blends survival, humour and heart, transforming a lone mission into an unexpected story about connection

Simple story: Will Arnett and Laura Dern star in Is This Thing On? It’s not a laugh out loud comedy but Will
Arnett’s performance is affecting and the chemistry between him and Dern is believable. Photo: Supplied

Marriage is no joke

A thoughtful look at marriage, resentment and reinvention, Bradley Cooper’s latest film lets its characters stumble, flail and quietly evolve

Heir: Rachel McAdams is a real revelation in Sam Raimi’s film Send Help.
Bradley Preston plays a smug nepo-baby. Photo: Supplied

A gleefully twisted tale of ambition and survival

Rachel McAdams is a revelation in Sam Raimi’s gleefully twisted tale of ambition, survival and very bad corporate decisions

Leonardo DiCaprio in the thriller One Battle After Another. Photos: Warner Bros. Pictures

One Battle After Another: The revolution will be cinematic

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio join forces for a high-stakes, darkly hilarious thriller exploring family, revolution and lingering trauma

The interpretation: Director Kola Tubosun has made a documentary about Wole Soyinka (above). Photo Keystone-France/Getty Images

Wole Soyinka: The artist captured in a moment long gone

Kola Tubosun has made a documentary about Nigerian creative Wole Soyinka who has just turned 90

Photo: Netflix

Unravelling the intrigue behind political thriller Heart of the Hunter

Film depicts the quest of black men to be present fathers and fight for love when threats emerge

‘Gaia’ is more than an eerie, haunted forest film. It juxtaposes the beauty of the natural world with the fragility of our hi-tech, industrial society.

Local film ‘Gaia’ is a psychedelic take on fantasy and horror

Gaia’ is more than an eerie, haunted forest film. It juxtaposes the beauty of the natural world with the fragility of our hi-tech, industrial society

The release of the new James Bond, film’s favourite super spy, is more significant than ever. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP) (Photo by MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images)

‘No Time to Die’: James Bond’s not-so-secret mission to save cinema

The release of the new James Bond, film’s favourite super spy, is more significant than ever

Transplanted: Steven Yeun (centre) plays Jacob, the husband in family drama Minari, which can be streamed on Showmax. Photo: (A24)

Screen Grab: An eastern western, way down South

In the acclaimed ‘Minari’, now streaming on Showmax, a Korean family start farming and fuming in the Ozarks

Iconic: Sola Sobowale returns as crime boss Eniola Salam

Review: Nigeria’s ‘King of Boys’ was a smash hit. Does the sequel do it justice?

Kemi Adetiba’s Netflix miniseries is certainly stylish — but it’s missing the panache of the original

In the Afrikaans sci-fi gem on Showmax, found footage reveals an inexplicable object in the Karoo

Screengrab: ‘Wesens’ has the final weird

In the Afrikaans sci-fi gem on Showmax, found footage reveals an inexplicable object in the Karoo

International solidarity: A demonstration in memory of Dulcie September in Paris, France after her murder in 1988. The banner readers: ‘Dulcie was our friend’. (Georges Merillon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images)

Review: ‘Murder in Paris’: Who killed Dulcie September?

Fast-paced and densely structured, a new documentary retrieves Dulcie September from the confines of ‘forgotten apartheid hero’

Sakawa is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of an online dating fraud syndicate in Ghana. (Supplied)

Sakawa Review: Ghana, e-waste and online dating scams

Sakawa is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of an online dating fraud syndicate in Ghana

Eleanore Bouw-Spies

M.I.A.’s collage clarifies the cause

Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A. piece together old and new visuals to piece together a collage of the experiences that developed the artist.

Superhero of the moment: Chadwick Boseman plays the film adaptation of the Sensational Black Panther which launches in theatre tonight.

A superhero worth the wait

Black Panther might depict a fantasy of the continent but the its contribution to black geekdom remains important

Liberal hubris: Allison Williams and Daniel Kaluuya star in Jordan Peele’s disturbing comedy horror

Jordan Peele uses satire to expose racism’s horror

The magic of this film lies in the fact that it seamlessly fuses biting satire with the horrifying spectre of racism.

La La Land is a story for our uninspiring age.

We’re living La La Land

In this era of post-truths and mediocrity, this pastiche of a movie that masquerades as an original deserves to win.

Admirable zeal: Jessica Zitter

​A dying breath of fresh air

A hard-hitting film raises serious ethical questions about keeping a patient alive at all costs.