Reviews

Few twentieth century film industry professionals can boast a career as storied or influential as Sidney Poitier - the quality and significance of his work on screen as an actor, behind the scenes as director,...

In Bruges stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite in The Banshees of Inisherin, written and directed by Martin McDonagh, a black comedy set on the fictional island of Inisherin, just off Ireland’s...

Throughout the career of pop legend David Bowie - especially as he burst onto the scene as alter ego Ziggy Stardust - the question of personal and artistic identity was at the fore of his publicity. Brett...

From writer-director Rian Johnson, the highly anticipated Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery features an impressive lineup of stars, including Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr.,...

Based on the 2012 young adult novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz comes Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, helmed by writer-director Aitch Alberto. Set in 1987 El Paso, this...

Michael Grandage’s My Policeman, based on the 2012 romance novel of the same name by Bethan Roberts, is set in 1950’s England, where policeman Tom (Harry Styles/Linus Roache) marries school teacher Marion...

In Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, we’re introduced to Charlie (Brendan Fraser), a reclusive English professor struggling with the personal relationships he has with his friend Liz (Hong Chau) and his...

From the minds of writer-director Eric Appel and the best accordion player within a very niche genre of music, Al Yankovic as co-writer and producer, comes the satirical biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story....

With Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino combines the romantic coming-of-age story of Call Me By Your Name with the realist horror of his Suspiria adaptation, taking a melancholic approach to the story of a...

The opioid crisis has long been an overlooked rot in the heart of the U.S., and Laura Poitras’s thunderous documentary tackles it with compassion and innovation. She takes an oblique approach, focusing...

Blue Jean announces the arrival of a major talent in writer/director Georgia Oakley’s feature debut. It’s hard to believe she wasn’t even born in 1988, when this film is set, considering how...

One can’t help but wonder if Netflix’s much-publicised recent financial troubles are down to business decisions like giving Alejandro G. Iñárritu millions to make Bardo, rather than just sending him to a...

It’s hard to imagine a more perfect choice to adapt Kurosawa’s iconic Ikiru (1952) than Kazuo Ishiguro. Born in Japan but raised in the UK since the age of 5, the Nobel Laureate bridges both cultures,...

Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise (1985) depicts an era where the relative security of Western middle class life mutated into nihilism. The Gladney children eagerly watch plane crashes on TV, safe in their...

While a smart work of autofiction, Husband might be too clever for its own good. Professor Devorah Baum and her spouse Josh Appignanesi are in New York. She has a book to promote, he’s there to care for...