A Profound Journey
Est. 1995
Articles published in 2022.
Rian Johnson brings Benoit Blanc back for a sun-drenched whodunnit aimed squarely at the tech-billionaire class. Lighter and looser than its predecessor, sharper than its plot pretends to be. 8/10.
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Ryan Coogler turns a film he never planned to make into a study of grief with a kingdom underneath it. Heavy where the first was light, but the world-building still holds. 8/10.
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A celebrity chef serves a tasting menu to a room of people who do not deserve it, and the satire of wealth and fine dining is sharp, controlled and very funny until the targets start to sit a little too still. 7.5/10.
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The first German-language film of Remarque's anti-war novel arrives on Netflix as a hard, beautifully made trench picture that is easier to admire than to love. 7.5/10.
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Jordan Peele swaps the suburbs for the high desert and aims a summer blockbuster at the question of why we cannot stop looking. Big, strange, and properly cinematic, even when it keeps you at arm's length. 8/10.
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A Predator prequel that strips the franchise back to one hunter, one weapon and a question of survival. The leanest entry since the original, and the smartest in years. 8/10.
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David Leitch packs a Tokyo bullet train with squabbling assassins and lets the carnage compound. Critics found it overstuffed; I found it the most rewatchable thing of the summer. 9/10.
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The Russo brothers spend Netflix's biggest cheque yet on a globe-trotting spy chase with a marquee cast. It is glossy, fast, and a little anonymous, but it is also good fun. 7.5/10.
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Thirty-six years on, Tom Cruise climbs back into the cockpit for a legacy sequel that flies a great deal better than it has any right to. Real jets, real grief, and the most exciting aerial cinema in years. 8/10.
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The Daniels throw the whole multiverse at a tax audit and somehow land a film about a mother and daughter. Exhausting, inventive, and far warmer than its chaos lets on. 8/10.
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