Author Nick Evan-Cook

If there's one thing that unifies this year's stellar crop of Oscar-nominated animated shorts, it's that each one is wildly different to the others. Hailing from all around the world, dealing with a...

Every now and then a film comes along that is so powerful, bold and admirable in its aims and ambitions that you feel the world must sit up and take notice. Joshua Oppenheimer has done it once before with The...

Chock-full of surprises and nigh-on indefinable, Nasty Baby shocks, subverts and delights in equal measure - to say much more would risk revealing too much. Sharp and sardonic, this naturalistically-acted...

A sensitive and touching central performance from Ian McKellen is the most recommendable element of the functional but limited Mr. Holmes. Sadly the protagonist is failed on nearly all sides, hamstrung by...

Stunning Chilean landscapes and artful abstract imagery are the name of the game in Patricio Guzmán's poetic historical/natural documentary.With an approach that leans slightly towards style over substance,...

Jafar Panahi writes, directs and stars in this charming and humorous display of the eccentric spirit of Iranian society. Ostensibly a hidden camera documentary, a large part of the film's appeal lies in...

“Cash money for a picture of Spider-Man!” The beauty of J.K. Simmons as an actor is that he has made a career out of stealing the thunder of his better-known, more highly-paid co-stars. Rarely being...

"I don't want to survive. I want to live." No list compiling the best films of 2014, or indeed this century, could fail to mention the staggering cinematic achievement that is Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a...

How often is it that a pair of the world’s most fêted and adored talents put their minds together to create a film? There are some great examples dotted throughout cinematic history – Ford & Wayne,...

Consisting of three 20-minute animated shorts, animator Don Hertzfeldt’s 2012 masterpiece It’s Such a Beautiful Day packs more pathos and melancholy into its one-hour tale of a stick man than most films...

Considered – even by its many admirers – the huge splitter of opinions in Charlie Kaufman’s oeuvre, his directorial debut Synecdoche, New York is a sprawling, deranged masterpiece in which raw, naked...