Author Jack Blackwell

From the moment Lady Gaga was cast in this fourth big-screen iteration of A Star is Born, everyone involved must have been thrilled to have its title take on such an obvious double meaning. She is, of course,...

Lizzie wastes no time laying out its theories as to who committed the 1892 Borden murders, a grisly double homicide by hatchet for which no one was ever found guilty. Opening on the immediate aftermath of the...

This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 27/09/2018. It’s still relatively rare for internet stars to make a successful leap into cinema, but that is, for the...

Jennifer Kent’s first film since her rapturously received horror The Babadook, The Nightingale bears no resemblance to that haunted house story, instead coming across more as The Revenant 2: Australian...

How soon is too soon to make drama out of tragedy is a question that Hollywood has long wrestled with. 22 July director Paul Greengrass knows this terrain perhaps better than anyone, helming United 93 just...

This review was originally published as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage on 05/09/2018. Brady Corbet’s fascination with power and influence - so evident in his blistering debut about...

This review was originally published as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage on 05/09/2018. Never Look Away’s most striking achievement is that it remains watchable for its over three hour runtime, a...

A splashy, flashy courtroom drama, The Accused feels, in many ways, like a throwback. In the era of Peak TV, where mysteries often unravel over tens of hours only to reveal further questions to be answered, a...

This review was published as part of our Venice film festival coverage on 03/09/2018.  With At Eternity’s Gate coming out less than a year after Loving Vincent, the life of Vincent van Gogh seems like...

This review was originally published as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage on 03/09/2018. S. Craig Zahler’s last two films, Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99, pushed the boundaries of being...

With a title like The Sisters Brothers, so called for its colourfully named leads, and supporting characters with monikers like Hermann Kermit Warm, Jacques Audiard’s western looks at first glance like a...

In a Venice year jam-packed with new, excitingly original works from established masters of world cinema, it was very difficult to pluck up excitement for a generic-looking French Infernal Affairs pastiche....

Suspiria is not a film to have mild feelings about. Like Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, Luca Guadagnino’s remake/reimagining arrives in Venice as a work of gonzo, philosophically minded horror that all but...

For all the wrong reasons, you can tell Peterloo was a passion project for Mike Leigh, and that the longstanding, beloved auteur has a deep fascination for the period. Every scrap of historical detail about...

As diverting as Non Fiction is, you would never want to spend an extended period of time with any of its characters. A cadre of dry, self-serious intellectuals, they’re all having affairs and engaging in...