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Ilan Preskovsky

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Biography:

Ilan Preskovsky is a South African freelance features writer and critic, whose love for film, TV, comics and music is neatly paired with a lifelong obsession of reading every review and opinion piece he could get his hands on. His reviews appear regularly on the Arts and Life section of South Africa's largest news site, News 24, and as a freelancer, his other writing can be found on any site, magazine, or community newsletter that will have him.

Reviews

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 37% 3/5 EDIT “Throw in a couple of beloved actors in the lead roles and fun supporting turns by Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and it really should have been something special rather than what it is: a likeable, admirably ambitious, but deeply flawed oddity.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Oct 6, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% 3/5 EDIT ““Comfortable” is probably not the word one would want to associate with horror, but it’s as much a feature as it is a bug in this “final” Conjuring movie. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Morning Glory (2010) 57% 7/10 EDIT “But as Morning Glory quickly proves, maybe there's nothing wrong with a bit of good, old-fashioned fluff in your cinematic diet. Especially if the fluff in question is as well-handled, entertaining and flat-out joyful as it is here.” – Because Everyone Else Has One (blog) Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% 4/5 EDIT “It has some impressively gnarly body-horror set pieces and large dollops of appropriately pitch-black humour, but its genre trappings are very much in service of the relationship drama and character exploration at the heart of the film.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Aug 17, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “At a time when it feels like we need the symbolism of Superman more than ever – that beautiful fairy tale of someone with incredible power who only wants to use that power for good - the real deal has, at last, returned to our big screens.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Jul 13, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% 3.5/5 EDIT “For a souped-up car commercial, it’s a far better movie than it has any right to be. Furthermore, the fact that it was made in close collaboration with the FIA means that the whole thing has an air of real authenticity about it.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% 3.5/5 EDIT “There is a lot of pleasure to be had in watching one of the most beautiful women on the planet beating the snot out of a succession of faceless baddies. More surprising is how good a job it does of carving its own little place in this absurd world.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Jun 8, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% 4/5 EDIT “The sentimentality, the forced narrative leaps, the simple messaging quickly become “features” when you realize what this film actually is and what it’s trying to do...it is as much a fairytale as something like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) Jun 8, 2025 Full Review Karate Kid: Legends (2025) 58% 2.5/5 EDIT “There’s just no getting around it, Karate Kid: Legends is a complete and utter mess that gets by almost entirely on the considerable charm of its cast and a general easygoing warmth and sweet nature that’s hard to deny. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) May 31, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 3.5/5 EDIT “It may be one of the weaker entries in a series that includes at least three of the greatest films ever made within its genre, but it still leaves 99.99% of other films in that genre in its dust. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) May 25, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “There are many, many reasons to like Sinners – which is, for my money, Coogler’s very best film to date – but first among them is the way the film careens through several wildly different genres and somehow still comes out of it as a cohesive whole. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “Still, even if Mickey 17 fails to engage the brain anywhere near as much as something that is clearly poised to be "intelligent sci-fi" should do, it's still a well-made, entertaining, funny and ultimately warm-hearted romp.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Mar 13, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% 4/5 EDIT “The Monkey is not a horror movie. I don’t believe for a second that any of it is supposed to be even remotely scary. [It's] an utterly deranged, absurdist existential-comedy with a very sick and twisted sense of humour. And I loved every minute of it.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Mar 2, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “The Brutalist and its main character are basically fictional, but the result is as authentic as any biopic of a real-life person. By not being limited to facts, Corbet has the freedom to really dig into the truths at the heart of his film. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% 5/5 EDIT “Anora does touch on Big Themes like class warfare and female empowerment, but first and foremost, it's a genre-bending mix of screwball comedy, unlikely romance, thriller and character-drama that keeps the pace up and the laughs coming throughout.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Feb 10, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Portrayed with eerie accuracy by Timothée Chalamet, who has arguably never been better, the Dylan of A Complete Unknown may not be completely unknown, but he absolutely lives up to the word most frequently associated with his general nature: mercurial.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Jan 14, 2025 Full Review Kraven the Hunter (2024) 15% 2.5/5 EDIT “It's why, for all that Kraven: The Hunter really isn't anywhere near as bad as its reputation already suggests and is certainly a step up from something like Madame Web and Morbius, it still has no real reason to exist.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Dec 24, 2024 Full Review Carry-On (2024) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “Any idiot can make this sort of film, but considering how bad, not to mention boring, most of them are, it's no small feat to make one that is genuinely thrilling, genuinely suspenseful, and genuinely fun. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) Dec 24, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 5/5 EDIT “Washington is brilliant even in films that are undeserving of his talent, but even if he is the best thing about Gladiator II, the film itself more than lives up to his almost unparalleled star quality. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) Nov 16, 2024 Full Review Magpie (2024) 81% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's a rocky, windy, sometimes frustrating road to get there, but it's the sort of ending that justifies an entire film. Whatever reservations I may have had throughout Magpie's previous 85 minutes, had all but vanished as the credits rolled. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) Nov 10, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Aside from a final twist that is, arguably, one twist too far, the plot is as fully believable as its vividly drawn characters. Conclave is authentic, in other words, but it's also immensely satisfying as both a character drama and a twisty thriller. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) Nov 7, 2024 Full Review Venom: The Last Dance (2024) 40% 2/5 EDIT “As Last Dances go, then, it's less an impeccably choreographed waltz than a bizarre bit of freestyle where the most fun part is watching the dancer fall all over himself. Which is not without its appeal, but it's not enough to sustain it for two hours. ” – Channel24 (South Africa) Oct 28, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% 2.5/5 EDIT “There's a thin line between complex and confused and Joker: Folie à Deux never gets a handle on that line, leaving the impression of a film with something to say but is either not sure of what that something is or how, exactly, to say it.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Oct 7, 2024 Full Review Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) 37% 2/5 EDIT “Unfortunately, Mignola’s weaknesses as a writer shine through and more than any of the shoddy CGI or often less-than-impressive acting, any potential the film had was ultimately squandered on an unengaging plot, leaden pacing and a very one-note villain.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% 3/5 EDIT “Everything about Kinds of Kindness is carefully honed to be as alienating as possible. It's grotesque. It's incredibly strange. It's very slow and very long. But more than anything, it just begs not to be "enjoyed" in any conventional sense of the word.” – Channel24 (South Africa) Sep 16, 2024 Full Review
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