At The Movies

Join Simon Morris in the best seat in the house as he reviews the latest movies. At The Movies also plays at 1.30pm on Sunday afternoons on RNZ National.

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Review: Riviera Revenge

Riviera Revenge is another popular comedy from French comedy master Ivan Calbérac (The Tasting). A long-married couple’s lives are upended when some 40-year-old letters prove the wife had a brief affair on the Côte d’Azur. The husband plans belated vengeance!
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Review: Together

Together features real-life husband and wife Dave Franco and Allison Brie as a couple who find themselves getting closer than they intended, with horrific consequences. Co starring Damon Herriman (Charles Manson in Once upon a time in Hollywood).

Review: When Fall Is Coming

When Fall Is Coming is a Hitchcock-style thriller about a woman who finds herself accused of planning to murder her own daughter to get custody of her grandson. She enlists an unlikely ally to clear her name. Directed by the versatile François Ozon (Potiche) it features French theatre star Hélène Vincent.

Genre Specific

Simon Morris looks at three films that aim at very specific audiences – horror film Together, and from France, an elegant mystery thriller called When Fall Is Coming, and a traditional French sex farce, Riviera Revenge.

FULL SHOW: A Family Affair

Dan Slevin reviews two new films in cinemas: In The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the first family of the Marvel Cinematic Universe defend Earth from a planet eating supervillain; The Life of Chuck is a moving adaptation of a Stephen King novella; and Dan interviews film critic Richard Scheib about his new book, A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic.
Image from the 2025 film The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Review: The Life of Chuck

Dan Slevin reviews a moving adaptation of a Stephen King novella about life, death and mathematics.
Image from the film The Life of Chuck.

Interview: A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic

Dan Slevin interviews film critic Richard Scheib about his new book - a comprehensive survey of films about plagues and contagion.
Cover of Richard Scheib's book "A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic"

Review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The first family of the Marvel Cinematic Universe defend Earth from a planet eating supervillain – reviewed by Dan Slevin.
Image from the 2025 film The Fantastic Four: First Steps

FULL SHOW: A Little Faith

Dan Slevin reviews four new films in cinemas: In Friendship, cringe comedian Tim Robinson plays a middle-aged man who thinks he’s found a lifelong pal; The Divine Sarah Bernhardt is a biopic about the world’s first global superstar; I Know What You Did Last Summer reboots the 90s slasher franchise; and in Four Letters of Love, the west of Ireland is the setting for a romantic miracle.

Review: Four Letters of Love

Dan Slevin reviews an adaptation of the bestselling Irish romantic novel starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne.
Image from the film Four Letters of Love

Review: I Know What You Did Last Summer

Dan Slevin reviews a remake-slash-reboot of the 90s horror franchise feature g three of the original stars.
Image from the 2025 film I Know What You Did Last Summer

Review: The Divine Sarah Bernhardt

Dan Slevin reviews a biography of the French actress who dominated the stage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and became the first global superstar.
Image from the film The Divine Sarah Bernhardt

Review: Friendship

“Cringe” comedian Tim Robinson plays a middle-aged man who thinks he’s found a lifelong pal in Tim Rudd’s TV weatherman – reviewed by Dan Slevin.
Image from the film Friendship

FULL SHOW: The good, the bad and the wonderfully weird

Dan Slevin reviews three films in local cinemas: In Superman, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn reboots the Man of Steel legend; in Bride Hard, Australian comic Rebel Wilson plays a secret agent bridesmaid saving a wedding from a gang of terrorists; and in the absurdist Canadian comedy, Universal Language, a depressed man returns home to snowy Winnipeg to try and find himself.

Review: Universal Language

Dan Slevin reviews an absurdist Canadian comedy about a depressed man who returns home to snowy Winnipeg to try and find himself.
Image from the movie 'Universal Language'

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