Author Danielle Davenport

Out To Win will interest its audience, and perhaps even provoke awareness. It's a fascinating documentary which scrutinises the intersecting, conflicting, and mutually revealing powers of prejudice and sport....

Home is an enjoyable family movie. All the ingredients for DreamWorks magic are present: imagination, expert animation and plenty of comic charm. While perhaps not as precise as the creators may have hoped...

Life begins with exciting momentum. It enjoys high quality writing and is genuinely funny at times. It is aesthetically impactful. So what’s the problem? Good writing does not necessarily equal a good...

Love and Mercy begins with promise but this is subsequently dismantled. The positives include wonderful orchestration and initially smooth linkage between the separate chronologies; they extend to the able...

There are some who might approach Cinderella with cynicism or circumspection. Abandon these sentiments. Yes, the film begins somewhat too treacly, complete with melodramatic exchanges and breathily gasped...

It might seem peculiar that a film comprised of a series of observations and very little dialogue could be so riveting, yet it is. This is facilitated by Jem Cohen’s insightful eye. Through his perspective...

There is much to recommend Selma besides the lure of Martin Luther King. It is creative and well told; never indolent and always interesting; grandiose yet intimate. DuVernay - through a wonderfully slender...

Alex Garland is in confident control from Ex Machina’s boldly brisk beginning to perfectly-pitched end. Carefully composed shots, swift cuts and succinct dialogue bestow the tumultuous pace and visual...

“You don’t want to wake up, do you?” The response to Under the Skin is visceral. Jonathan Glazer’s visually spectacular and profoundly unsettling masterpiece is a film that has polarised critics...

I first saw Life of Pi in immersive, delicate and dreamlike 3-D, and left the cinema enraptured by the story I’d seen. The spectacle of the film offered adventure, emotion, allegorical insight, and stunning...

Ambition affords an unusual luxury to ORWAV; only 6 minutes, 39 seconds to discuss in our economical 100 words… It is an impressive and dizzying 399 seconds in which a space mission meets philosophy,...

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them has the makings of a stellar offbeat romance: confidence, intrigue, pathos and a dream cast in Chastain and McAvoy. However this undoubtedly accomplished and artistic...

James Kent has lavished care on this searing story of love and war so as to produce a familiar yet fresh adaptation. The emotions exposed throughout Testament of Youth are sagaciously measured, truthful and...

This sensory and disorientating documentary is extremely poignant, an effect heightened by footage accentuating Collins’ former dynamism as well as incremental tonal shifts paralleling the ascendance of...

Leigh’s joyful rendition of J.M.W. Turner’s final years is unique and unpredictable, an incandescent homage to light, beauty and inimitable talent. The audience is treated to captivating scenery, its...