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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

Barbieland: Margot Robbie plays the perfect Barbie with Ken (Ryan Gosling) as one of her accessories . Photo: Supplied

Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ movie is worth the hype

It is a brilliant existential comedy that confronts patriarchy in the real world

Nordic warrior: Alexander Skarsgård plays Prince Amleth in the film ‘The Northman’. Photo: Courtesy MultiChoice

‘The Northman’ is brutal but beautiful

In ‘The Northman’ lawlessness and mysticism rule Viking culture as seen through modern eyes

Not entirely dread-ful: Jonah Hauer-King and Halle Bailey as Eric and Ariel in the remake of  Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’. Photo: Giles Keyte/Disney Enterprises

One Movie, One Take: ‘The Little Mermaid’

It’s a good attempt at reimagining the Disney classic, with solid performances, but it’s a tad pedestrian

Ageing before our eyes: Boyhood follows the life of Mason

Boyhood tracks Ellar Coltrane’s coming of age

"In making Boyhood, Richard Linklater truly has created something never before seen in a fiction feature film," writes Nadia Neophytou.

Zaheer Khan celebrates a wicket on the fifth day of a first Test at the Wanderers on Sunday.

Boyhood: One boy’s life, from real to reel

In a world saturated by violence and sensation, true escape comes in Richard Linklater’s moving film Boyhood.

Modern relationship: Lily Collins and Michael Angarano in a scene from The English Teacher.

English Teacher, please stay behind after class

This is the story of the little movie that could have done better. What The English Teacher gets right is the tone and style of the indie sleeper.

Move on, nothing to see here

Elysium is today’s gross global inequality realised. By 2154, humanity is divided into the privileged and the masses on whose backs this is built.

Up in arms:Riz Ahmed in  The Reluctant Fundamentalist

A deadly dialogue

Wikipedia conveniently offers a summary of Mohsin Hamid’s highly acclaimed 2007 novel, <em> The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em>.

Severity and mastery: Defining the film ‘Amour’

The title of Michael Haneke’s "Amour" is a challenge: not ironic, not celebratory, and yet somehow not complicated either.

Durban International Film Festival begins on July 18.

It’s the odd that makes the Durban film festival

The Durban International Film Festival begins on July 18 and, in keeping with its role as SA’s leading festival, it features a huge range of movies.

Britain’s Henry Cavill has a thin

Movie of the week: Man of Steel

It must be the last act of superhero revisionism: abolishing the word “super”.

Charm relieves ‘Spud’ of sequel in(s)anity

The adventure continues in the sequel to the hit South African comedy based on the bestselling series of novels by John van de Ruit.

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Movie of the week: To the Wonder

It’s a fascinating, flawed and vivid piece of work, in some ways a coda or companion piece to "The Tree of Life".

Low-down on some high-flyers: Raúl Arévalo and Carlos Areces in I’m So Excited.

Movie of the week: I’m So Excited

Pedro Almodóvar’s new film is a cheeky comedy about stressy homosexuals in an aeroplane going round and round in the sky without getting anywhere.

Movie of the week: Star Trek into Darkness

JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek installment is as glitzy as his first, but it’s Benedict Cumberbatch as a mysterious new foe that fuels this outing.

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Movie of the week: ‘On the Road’

Your enjoyment of the movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road" will depend on your frame of mind as you walk into the cinema.

Depression and fear: A convincingly recreated IRA funeral in Shadow Dancer.
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Movie of the week: Shadow Dancer

James Marsh’s movie is calm, level, downbeat. The tension is subtle — perhaps subtler than it really should be.

Jude Law stars in 360.
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Movie of the week: 360

360 is rich with human life and the textures of our fractured, disparate worlds

Wild party: Tobey Maguire stars as Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby.
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Not the movie of the week: The Great Gatsby

The main action in the movie is its visual effects, beside which the sad strivings of the mere humans in the narrative are as chaff in the wind.