California Schemin’
CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’ has hints of greatness throughout its script but ultimately lands as a safe debut for James McAvoy that doesn’t dare to tread very far outside the formula for music biopic cinema.
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Glass
Despite issues, GLASS represents a successful melding of its two parent films, preserving their strengths and, more often than not, shedding their weaknesses. Alice Pullen reviews.
Submergence
SUBMERGENCE is much like the drowning its lead characters spend time talking about: suffocating, cold, and surrounded by wet fish. Jim Ross reviews at Glasgow Film Festival.
Filth
FILTH is a superbly lurid and comedically pitch-black spiral into a man’s mental hell, with James McAvoy on perhaps his best form to date.
Trance
Although TRANCE is engaging and evokes his finest work, lack of empathy and glib plot ‘twists’ determine its future as a footnote in Boyle’s career, writes Jim Ross.