Shallow, uninspired and indulgently inconsequential, WHAT IF…THOR WERE AN ONLY CHILD? takes our favourite Asgardian and amplifies the oafish arrogance we only briefly glimpsed in the movie to the point where you have to wonder how in the Nine Realms he’s still worthy of Mjolnir. When his parents take separate vacations, Thor decides to use his unsupervised time to head to Midgard to part-ay. P,…

A grounded and consequential revenge thriller, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN lures you in with its apparent vulnerability but it’s hiding an emotional sucker punch that’s likely to take your breath away. Cassie (Carey Mulligan), a medical school dropout still scarred by a terrible event which happened to her best friend at college, lives a deliberately quiet, unremarkable life. Superficially, she lives…

Before this film, my knowledge of “Warcraft” was pretty much restricted to the brilliant “Make Love, Not Warcraft” episode of “South Park” and that YouTube video of Leeroy Jenkins. Luckily, you don’t need any knowledge of the various other iterations of the franchise to enjoy this rollicking sword and sorcery adventure.

With Draenor, the Orc home world dying, Gul’dan (Daniel Wu) unites the Orc…

There’s something comfortingly familiar and yet frustratingly unambitious about SpongeBob’s latest cinematic outing. All the usual hallmarks are there: it’s cute and unashamedly goofy, the roster of characters are exactly as you might remember them and the oddball plot rambles along in the haphazard way we’ve come to know and love, peppered with the occasional sharp point of satire and parody.…