Little White Lies

It’s certainly a work that requires a low tolerance for excitement, as the story doesn’t end so much as it enters into a predictable slow fade.

As much as Spider-Man: No Way Home felt like slavish fan service, it did at least feel like it was telling its own story. Brand New Day might be hitting a reset button to a certain extent with a scrappy anonymous hero determined to win MJ’s heart, but so much late stage focus on its villain makes it more of a branding exercise for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday then anything else.

All of Christopher Nolan exists within The Odyssey. All of humanity exists within filmmaking. Yet cinema always finds new ways to tell old stories; this is the great magic of the medium.

Ultimately, Shoot the People succeeds more as a celebration of photography than as a portrait of a single photographer.

The biggest disappointment of Evil Dead Burn was how hard it is to see Vaniček’s unique vision, evident in Infested, anywhere in this film.

Rosebush Pruning is proudly a weird, bad time at the movies, but it’s also a film that selects its targets and then hits them with dead aim.

While the comedy is excellent (hyperbolic but vulnerable at its core), there is even more value in The Invite​’s remedial humour and a shared attempt to not only make the contradictions of hetero-monogamy more palatable, but pleasurable.

At its core it’s a film about the joy of hanging out and creating stuff with your pals – a daffy but delightful ode to delusional dreamers the world over with an admirable commitment to the bit.

The film’s unpredictability and refusal to be categorised mirrors its protagonist. Beneath the chaos is the idea that, as human beings, we contain multitudes. And this isn’t a bad thing – the film argues that the only thing that can define us is those around us and how they treat us. If we’re weird but everyone else is also weird, doesn’t that make all of us normal?

It might not be the most raucous or ridiculous send off, but Best and Last feels like the finale that Jackass deserves.