The Voyeurs (2022)

Imagine L B "Jeff" Jefferies and Lisa Fremont getting off on watching, through a feverishly passed back and forth shared pair of binoculars, Lars Thorgood regularly doing it and you get the idea of Amazon Prime's The Voyeurs, a movie that starts promisingly, riffs interestingly on eyeballs, titillates regularly with a tangle of young, beautiful bodies, but ultimately insults by flinging carelessly at audiences a series of glib, eye-roll inducing twists that only the most unquestioning of viewers will accept.

★★☆☆☆

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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

There is nothing objectionable in watching people catapault from one success to another as Freddie Mercury and his band Queen do in this bandopic, but there is nothing much unique about the trajectory traced by this particular movie, either - the band experiences the crazy heights and then the abject lows experienced by all winners of The Voice and all musicians in movies - have you seen A Star Is Born? - and all you are left with in the end as you watch a painstakingly recreated 20-minute set at a rock concert is doubt regarding the reality of Queen's longevity and questions - because I just don't know - about the accuracy of Rami Malek's impersonation.

★★★☆☆

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