Gemma Chan Archives

Exam (2009)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 13, 2014Torturous Existential Job Interview

An existential puzzlebox of a film where a group of job interviewees are locked in a room and asked to work out what the question is. A fascinating conceptual film that falls somewhere between Cube and Saw

Director: Stuart Hazeldine

Actors: Luke Mably, Jimi Mistry, Pollyanna McIntosh, Colin Salmon, …

Category: Science Fiction

13 July 201431 January 2026 by Roog

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Rating: ★½

Sep 23, 2017Live-Action Transformer Robots

The fifth of Michael Bay's Transformers films. This comes with more of an outright comedy focus than any of the other films where Bay seems to be second-guessing his critics and spoofing his own peccadilloes in quote marks, only to produce the silliest entry in the series yet

Director: Michael Bay

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Josh Duhamel, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 September 201722 July 2023 by Roog

Captain Marvel (2019)

Rating: ★★

Jun 8, 2019Marvel Comics Superheroine

After calls to do so, The MCU offers up their first superheroine with very unexceptional results. A competent enough effort but DC's Wonder Woman easily blows everything this tries to do out of the water

Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

Actors: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 June 201928 December 2025 by Roog

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 13, 2021Disney Animation/Fantasy Quest

The 59th animated film from Disney emerges as a modest effort with a cross-Asian cultural focus that eventually builds a strong character arc

Director: Carlos Lopez Estrada, Don Hall

Actors: Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Benedict Wong, Daniel Dae Kim, …

Category: Fantasy

13 March 202130 December 2022 by Roog

Eternals (2021)

Rating: ★★

Jan 22, 2022Marvel Comics Superhero Team

A Marvel Comics offering that is an adaptation of a team created by the greatest comic-book writer/artist of all time. On screen however, this emerges with strangely flat and moribund results

Director: Chloe Zhao

Actors: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 January 202231 January 2026 by Roog

Don’t Worry Darling (2022)

Rating: ★★

Nov 5, 2022Sinister Utopian Town

Actress Olivia Wilde creates a variant on The Stepford Wives set in an idyllic 1950s town where the women seem to be prisoners. Wilde is making a feminist parable but the plausibility of her SF scenario falls apart

Director: Olivia Wilde

Actors: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 November 202220 January 2026 by Roog

The Creator (2023)

Rating: ★★★★½

Nov 25, 2023Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Gareth Edwards, the director of Monsters and Godzilla, makes a genre-defining work about robotics and artificial intelligence set in a stunningly detailed future world. This site's Top Film for 2023

Director: Gareth Edwards

Actors: John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 November 202314 January 2026 by Roog