Caution Spoilers

Ask me about a movie! Wait, not that one

  • Home
  • Film Reviews
  • Shorts
  • Documentaries
  • TV Shows
  • Video Reviews
  • Re-caps (spoilery!)
  • Trailers/Clips
  • Interviews
  • Film Articles
  • Podcasts
  • Film Club
  • Stunts
  • Posters/Images
  • Festivals
  • Kids
  • Film News
  • Awards
  • Actors
  • Genres
  • Annual reviews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

The Reef: Stalked 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

31st July 2022 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Four women are hunted by a shark while on a seagoing kayaking adventure. Received wisdom is that sharks got a raw deal from Peter Benchley’s novel and Spielberg’s classic movie. Though they’ve now been so thoroughly rehabilitated — personally I trace it back to Viz magazine’s self-explanatory cartoon strip The Pathetic Sharks — it’s hard… The Reef: Stalked Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: great white, grief, shark

All is not black and white in new trailer for The Righteous

4th May 2022 by Sarah

“Be careful what you wish for. But be certain what you pray for.” Frederic prays for his penance — possibly rashly, it turns out. This first feature from director-actor-writer Mark O’Brien is a dark chiller about a burdened man who feels the wrath of a vengeful God, after he and his wife are visited by… All is not black and white in new trailer for The Righteous Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: AAA, black and white, god, grief, the righteous, thriller

Pig 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

14th August 2021 by Sarah 1 Comment

A man’s truffle pig is stolen and he travels into the city to find it. Pig‘s titular pig is an adorable old ham. When she’s happy she snorts like an old man laughing at his own jokes, while the river tumbles and twigs crackle around her; when she’s taken you can hear her shrieking in… Pig Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: grief, pig, portland, restaurants, truffles

Promising Young Woman: the end

5th August 2021 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Cassie plots the denouement to her own story, and though he knows the risk she’s taking, for her it’s worth it. Without Nina, Cassie sees herself as half a person (she wears a chain with half a pendant on it, while Nina had the other half). Cassie knows she might well die, and that her… Promising Young Woman: the end Read More

Filed Under: Re-caps (spoiler warning!) Tagged With: AAA, carey mulligan, emerald fennell, grief, Promising young woman, revenge

Pieces Of A Woman: the final bit of the jigsaw

18th January 2021 by Sarah 1 Comment

Warning: very spoilery about the end of the film – if you want to read my review instead, it’s here. Pieces Of A Woman is about Martha navigating her grief when her baby dies, and part of that is about her regaining control after the birth. Births are often unpredictable but she had tried to… Pieces Of A Woman: the final bit of the jigsaw Read More

Filed Under: Re-caps (spoiler warning!) Tagged With: baby loss, grief, pieces of a woman, vanessa kirby

Pieces Of A Woman 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

18th January 2021 by Sarah Leave a Comment

When Martha and Sean’s baby dies shortly after her home birth, the months that follow see relationships around her fracture as Martha tries to navigate her grief. When Martha goes into labour, she and her husband Sean find their chosen midwife stuck with another birthing mother. They’re sent Eva instead, an unexpected development but not… Pieces Of A Woman Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: baby death, boston, family, grief, relationships, stillbirth

The Secret Garden 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

25th October 2020 by Sarah

An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle’s estate. I was underwhelmed by The Secret Garden but not the secret garden. The film feels soulless, its magic and reality uneasy (flower)bedfellows; while the garden is a gorgeously tangled, artfully curated wilderness housing everything a child, kept captive by an adult world… The Secret Garden Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: 1940s, country house, Frances Hodgson Burnett, grief, horticulture, india, partition, yorkshire

Love Sarah 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

3rd July 2020 by Sarah

A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother’s dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandmother. My main thought after watching Love Sarah was to hope there would be an accompanying recipe booklet. The cakes look delicious: billowing cream,… Love Sarah Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: bakery, baking, grief

Mizuko (short film) Short Film 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

17th June 2020 by Sarah

In Japan, there is a special way to mourn an abortion. Mizuko (Water Child) is a short animated documentary film inspired by these Buddhist traditions. For a film that tackles such a sensitive subject, and through so many different styles, Mizuko feels very calming, a soothing ripple washing over us even as it encourages us… Mizuko (short film) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: abortion, buddhism, grief, miscarriage, pregnancy loss

The Aeronauts 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

29th October 2019 by Sarah 4 Comments

A period drama about the weather really is peak British filmmaking. Corsets and barometers – what could be better? And they get to change the world. Set in 1862, this is an exhilarating journey up, up and away; with breathtaking action and a thoughtful central relationship between a doer and a thinker, as balloon pilot… The Aeronauts Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: altitude record, balloon, grief, meteorology, weather

Replicas 1.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

3rd May 2019 by Sarah 2 Comments

There’s something pleasingly pointed about a man jokingly claimed to be immortal starring in a movie about creating a form of immortality. Sci-fi cloning film Replicas was also co-produced by Keanu Reeves, whose youthful visage and apparent appearances in portraiture through the ages baffles many who apparently can’t tell the difference between two men with dark… Replicas Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Re-caps (spoiler warning!) Tagged With: bereavement, clones, cloning, grief, science

Amaurosis trailer: no longer unseen

25th April 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

A shocking family event, a strange new friend who may or may not be all he seems, and an isolated Lake District location – all the elements are there in indie thriller Amaurosis. Previously released in the UK with the title The Unseen, this is an effective and eerie film about the effects of grief…. Amaurosis trailer: no longer unseen Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: Amaurosis, bereavement, Gary Sinyor, grief, intermittent blindness, Jasmine Hyde, richard flood, simon cotton, The Unseen, thriller

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

Looking For

About Sarah

About Sarah

Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, John Wick lover and Gerard Butler apologist. Still waiting for Mike Banning vs John Wick: Requiem

Site info here.
Or email me on [email protected]

Reviews

Netflix and chill: the film club discusses The Pale Blue Eye 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

See How They Run 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Maneater 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Clarkson’s Farm (TV series, season 1) 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

The Reef: Stalked 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Persuasion 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

GATLOPP: Hell Of A Game 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Jurassic World: Dominion 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Top Gun: Maverick 5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Senior Year 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

H20h no! The Film Club watches Black Water: Abyss 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (TV mini series) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Pursuit Of A Jigsaw (short film) Short Film 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Operation Mincemeat 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Reed’s Point 2 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Let The Wrong One In 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Death On The Nile 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Deep Water 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Moonfall 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

Get the latest reviews by Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to and receive notifications of new reviews by email.

Copyright © 2023 · Caution Spoilers Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in