Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: The Equalizer is - first and foremost - a good character-study which plays the cards of its intriguing central character close to the chest - slowly unraveling a mysterious man as the film progresses. We begin in his apartment where... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Source Code's strongest asset is its clever mystery and the way Ben Ripley's script chooses to reveal its cards as it progresses. At the very start in a rather genius scene in which a man appears to be trapped inside another man's bo... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Mel Gibson's Braveheart is the ultimate movie epic - a historic story of war, romance and tragedy about suppressed people rising up that's executed with both pathos and cinematic splendor to make for three hours of rousing entertainm... Read the full review »

Avengers: Endgame (2019) spun an intricate web of potential alternate realities for the Marvel Universe earlier this summer, and the initial task of untangling the fallout rests on the shoulders of Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019). If you're expec... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: It seemed unlikely that Barry Jenkins would top the mastery of Moonlight in his next effort, but 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' miraculously sees him do just that with an epic, sweeping, tragedy-ridden romance that packs an even great... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: At its heart 'Big Hero 6' is effectively the lovely story of a young boy coming to terms with intense grief and loss through the membrane of a plump white nurse-come-ninja robot, and whilst that whole concept may sound a bit odd on p... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Richard Curtis seems to get a bad wrap these days for making overly safe and light-hearted romance films about anxsty, white, middle-class members of the opposite sex, but in my opinion the results are generally very successful as th... Read the full review »