Graeme Strachan

@The_reviewist

Graeme Strachan is a writer based in Edinburgh. He has been a critic and reviewer for over 15 years, covering film, theatre, video-games and restaurants. He also likes to dabble in film and television production during the day.

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Hedda

Rather like Hedda herself, this is a garish and attention-seeking, yet ultimately soulless creature

Counterstrike

A solid, unpretentious piece of action entertainment

The Gorge

Fun but largely forgettable and disposable entertainment

La Dolce Villa

Your gran will probably enjoy and have forgotten this film in a week’s time

The Last Showgirl

Will wash the taste of Showgirls out of the mouths and minds of audiences

Sector 36

A competent, if underwhelming, Indian crime thriller

Uglies

A film that’s even more shallow and vacuous than the beauty-obsessed society it portrays

Alien: Romulus

In Space You’ll Feel A Serious Sense of Deja-Vu

Spy × Family CODE: White

Maybe the most fun you’ll have during a cold war

There’s Still Tomorrow

Italian smash hit updates the greats of neo-realism for a new audience

Late Night With The Devil

David Dastmalchian delights in this devilish late night TV horror

Dune: Part Two

A staggering spectacle of space, sand and slaughter

The New Boy

Australian dreamlike drama fails to contend with the topics it sets itself

Spaceman

The most disappointing Spaceman since Babylon Zoo

Damsel

A girl vs. dragon action fantasy that outstays its welcome almost immediately

Origin

A well intentioned but messy evocation of the writing process

Madame Web

A catastrophic mess of a movie

Deliver Us

A well shot, but extremely confused anti-antichrist romp

American Fiction

A scathingly funny swipe at lazy modern storytelling

Ferrari

Enzo Ferrari; The Man, the Machine and The Mundanity

Maestro

A beautiful but oddly disappointing tribute to Leonard Bernstein

Naga

One Saudi woman’s drug-fuelled slog through the desert of patriarchy

Blood Vessel

Nigerian drama makes disappointingly mediocre use of a great premise

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

An occasionally charming, if utterly unnecessary and flawed prequel