There's little memorable about Trolls, but you got to hand it to these weirdly happy people - they sure know how to put a smile on a kid's face.

I'll admit that The Founder, the story of the birth of McDonald's, is a little harder to swallow than a cheeseburger and fries. The

Allied's strong sense of déjà vu sure makes it look nice. But it sure doesn't help make it a great film.

It's not often a censor's notes can be such a spoiler (Violence, horror, sexual material & necrophilia). You may want to add misogyny, cannibalism and vampirism to that list.

The Founder is a bland movie which becomes less great American business saga, than a mildly engaging, mildly uncomplimentary Kroc biopic.

Crazy found-footage thriller Operation Avalanche has arrived just in time for the supermoon rising over the country, keeping us all

Fantastic Beasts feels like something darker, stranger and altogether much less of a theme park blueprint than the Potter movies.

Moon landing hoaxsters will undoubtedly be very happy with Operation Avalanche.

War on Everyone is a film that is remarkably tone deaf and quite awful.

Following 2014's acclaimed Love Is Strange, Little Men is another very New York story with real estate concerns from director-writer Ira Sachs.

These doco directors brought clarity, perspective and humanity with The 5th Eye, which covers New Zealand's role in the Five Eyes spy alliance.

Arrival does have moments of story daftness, however, Adams' performance as Dr Louise Banks is terrific.

The Light Between Oceans, directed by Ryan Gosling fanboy Derek Cianfrance (Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine) is the latest

REVIEW: Mel Gibson will be hoping that Hacksaw Ridge can reset the bones of a broken career.

The predictability of an unhappy resolution headed the tears off - but the redemptive ending knocked me. I was still sobbing as I left the cinema.

Affleck, autism and accounting combine for enjoyable if ropy action movie.

Oh good. Another rich prick gets a cape and a suit. Wait, come back. This isn't that sort of superhero movie.

The way Hell or High Water gently and precisely unfurls its plot, the characters and their motivations lifts this above the ordinary.

As a spoof or spy movie, you have to say this about Keeping up with the Joneses - it sure can't keep up with those Smiths.

If Shideh wasn't already feeling demonised enough. She's a liberal-minded woman living in Tehran during the final years of the 1980s Iraq-Iran war.

The second Jack Reacher film fails to measure up to just about everything.

Ouija: Origin of Evil is a familiar story but Flanagan throws in just enough creepy and witty twists to keep you interested in how it turns out.

For all its classy production values, Café Society isn't as invigorating as Woody Allen's top-notch work can be.

As the 2014 Oscar-nominated anthology Wild Tales showed, Argentinean cinema does like its black comedies.

It's ten years since Tom Hanks first played the dull but exceedingly well-read Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code, and seven since he did another lap of art-history orienteering in Angels and Demons.

A whodunit story makes an absorbing thriller on page, but less so on screen, even if it also delivers a compelling title character.

It's a spectacle-driven disaster movie that isn't pure escapism. It's got wanton destruction by the barrelful, but it makes every life - or death count.

As a crisp digest of a lurid true-crime story that sprawled over 10 years, the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox deserves credit for concision.

It's called The Magnificent Seven which marks it as a remake of a remake - the 1960 original Western lifted its plot from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.

Director Tim Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs' time travelling, gothic novel about children with peculiar abilities is filled with immaculate costumes, imaginative monsters and an overall attention to detail that you don't get at the movies every day.