Author Alex Goldstein

Thessaloniki has one of the oldest Jewish communities in Greece—but a lengthy presence doesn’t guarantee a safe one. The City and the City blends re-enactment and documentary techniques in a series of...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our LFF coverage. For a comedy-drama that hovers between life and death, Never Gonna Snow Again is achingly beautiful. Szumowska and Engerlt...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2019 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. It's taken 20 years for Michael Caton-Jones to bring his adaptation of Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos to the...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. You could say a film about isolation, in 2020, is timely. But for all the many beats they have in common,...

“I always played older,” Olympia Dukakis once told the New York Times. “I think it was the voice.” From 40 years old, Dukakis was playing mothers of grown children and elder stateswomen - and...

Tangled has always had a bit of a mixed reputation. Although cinema-going audiences treated it fairly kindly, it struggled to make back its mammoth budget. Critics shrugged at it - complaining it was a little...

So many women’s stories are about freedom: choosing it, fearing it, paying for it. At the London Film Festival this year, two of the most talked about features - Nomadland and Ammonite - had the same...

There's a story every creative falls for. It's the one where the off-beat genius, the colour-outside-the-lines character is finally given free rein with their crayons. Everything that comes before is hard, and...

They say history repeats itself. For Matt Hulse, it's more like a replay - or five. Over and over again he assembles trios of kids from a Glasgow youth theatre group to represent his younger self, his sister...

There's a whiff of nostalgia from Harry Michell's black comedy about Christian assassins on the rampage, and it's mostly the better for it. Its decidedly British feel - hints of Clockwise and Nuns on the Run -...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2019 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. With Marriage Story prominent on the festival circuit, LFF's other divorce drama, Hope Gap, threatens to be...

“All I really want is to believe in you.” Not 12 minutes into this hopelessly ill-conceived adaptation of the beloved Eoin Colfer books, Artemis Fowl (Ferdia Shaw) speaks for us all. It’s a schoolboy...

Another year, another Jane Austen adaptation. Autumn de Wilde's Emma is the latest in a multi-million dollar legacy for the beloved author who, though she saw some success in her lifetime, suffered a great...

Syllas Tzoumerkas' third film is as slippery as the eels that form its backbone. It's intense, brutal and surprising - full of strange asides and meandering paths, held together by the suffocating setting of...

"With that hair," comments a local pilgrim to a visiting stranger with long curls and a full beard, "you're either sick, a wacko, or a scientist." It sums up Alaa Eddine Aljem's gentle farce about faith...