It relies on the familiar formula of a megalomaniac seeking global domination and the superhero determined to stop him in escapist fun.

It is hard to sustain two villains, when most Superhero, or Superheroine, films have just one, and this movie largely sustains its pace through outstanding special effects, which it delivers well.

It’s disappointing to find that Docter’s latest project, a blend of drama and comedy, while often funny, fails to make an impact similar to those of Toy Story, Up, or Inside Out.

Raising questions, not giving answers, Soul is an animated delight.

The ethnic, sectional and economic tensions of the Reconstruction era are explored in the epic adventure “News of the World”.

This is a home-grown movie of quality that authentically captures the Australian spirit of Jane Harper’s best-selling novel. As a thriller, the movie builds its tension slowly to a devastating finale that ties its subplots together.

Probably too sweet for many an audience, but probably engagingly sweet for many more. And, a bit of a change, in fact, to see a young couple so lovingly committed with a wedding ceremony as one of the most significant events of their lives.

But, for a film released in 2020, it is in the vein of Black Lives Matter. It is a condemnation of those who have preserve the racist attitudes of the past – where white supremacist violence can erupt.

This is the kind of documentary that can be described as “consciousness-raising”. But the “raising” is only part of the exercise – “consciousness-challenging” is the important factor.

This is a personal drama of two women in a relationship.

Many of us in the audience will realise that we are in a world, in a story of Australian history, with which we are not particularly familiar.

And then comes one of the greatest coincidences in contemporary films!

The action has been transferred to the US, to the state of Alabama, and the central characters are African-American, bringing in significant race issues underlying the action.

Much is tailored to the needs of drama in "Godfather, Coda." But one cannot manufacture urgency in a film that lacks the kind of cosmic conflict of its two predecessors.

Viola Davis is a manipulative diva who commands attention and obedience. Her mesmerizing performance consumes the screen, and Chadwick Boseman as Levee broke my heart.

This femme fatale is in Sin City for what she calls a “therapeutic getaway,” a fancy name for having sex with a stranger.

I loved the climactic portions of “Soul” that helped Joe himself realize that although playing jazz is his life’s greatest passion, perhaps ultimately it was not his most significant purpose in life.

Nolan’s true triumph lies in filling this complex world with characters who keep it spinning with their desires, which in turn are finely tuned products of the new world and the familiar.

Was everyone just naïve about the flipside of the creation of these digital platforms? Did no one truly consider the human factor in all of this, that is, the very real human struggle with good and evil?

It is urgent and suspenseful, even if one is aware that around its periphery exists information that, in a courtroom, would be deemed quite relevant to the case.