Our Star Ratings

We aim for our reviews to make you hungry for even more visits to the cinema, and our star ratings will whet your appetite and get you reaching for the popcorn!

Here’s a short but useful guide as to what each star rating basically means…

 

Top quality cuisine

Close to perfection

Appetite has been satisfied

You’ll be hungry for more

A decent stomach-filler

A bit undercooked

Near flavourless

Rotten taste in the mouth

An inedible monstrosity

Actual poison

Search from our massive back catalogue of movie reviews and previews:

The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet)

In 20th century America, a Hungarian Jewish architect is given the opportunity to design a monumental new building…

William Tell (dir. Nick Hamm)

The story of William Tell, the huntsman who led a resistance against the Austrian Empire…

Wolf Man (dir. Leigh Whannell)

A family man transforms into a terrifying creature…

Here (dir. Robert Zemeckis)

A peek into the lives of many people throughout time, from the same exact spot…

A Complete Unknown (dir. James Mangold)

A young Bob Dylan makes a name for himself in the early 60s…

The Damned (dir. Thordur Palsson)

In 19th century Iceland, the inhabitants of a fishing village make a haunting decision…

Babygirl (dir. Halina Reijn)

A CEO has a sexual reawakening with her younger intern…

A Real Pain (dir. Jesse Eisenberg)

Two American cousins head to Poland for a Holocaust tour…

Maria (dir. Pablo Larraín)

The final days of world-renowned opera singer Maria Callas…

Nickel Boys (2024, dir. RaMell Ross)

In 60s Florida, two young boys are sent to an abusive reform school…

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