Reviews

With Mike White’s Brad’s Status, a serious Ben Stiller plays a character like those he’s embodied in his work with Noah Baumbach. Brad is familiar – another version of the antiheroes in Greenberg and...

Having been a Hollywood staple for what seems like an eternity, it's almost inconceivable that Aaron Sorkin has taken so many years to move into direction. With his Oscar-winning prose, defined by its...

In true Barnum spirit, director Michael Gracey’s dazzling musical The Greatest Showman embraces his subject’s famous proclivity for massaging the truth. The man who once paraded elderly ex-slave Joice Heth...

Ah, the third album. A Hard Day’s Night. Colouring Book. OK Computer. Artists are lucky to make it this far in the cutthroat music industry, and film is no different. There are think-pieces to the end of...

It's that time of year again. Christmas? No. Time for a new Star Wars release! After the continuity-eschewing interlude of Rogue One, we're back in the franchise's main stable to catch up with the characters...

Watching Jennifer Peedom’s (Sherpa, 2015) Mountain is an incredibly visceral experience. As the camera faces down vertically on a precariously dangling climber (without ropes) and a sheer mountain face, the...

While it is indeed a Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi is unmistakably Rian Johnson's work. The stakes are smaller and more tangible than in The Force Awakens - this is more about the emotional toll that war...

Menashe may rest on the laurels of its striking USP – it’s a Yiddish-language film starring a father-son duo of non-professional actors – yet it’s both charming and totally immersive. The narrative...

This was originally reviewed on 01/09/17 as part of Venice Film Festival. Mass migration is one of the biggest international crises of the last decade, with more people displaced now than at any point...

This was originally reviewed on 26/09/17 as part of London Film Festival. It's a strange cinematic coincidence, but the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings have proved fertile ground for two excellent recent...

This was originally reviewed on 23/09/17 as part of London Film Festival. Debut director Dave McCary and SNL co-star Kyle Mooney have teamed up for Brigsby Bear, a videophile flick that is ripe for laughs...

Beyond the usual blarney about desecrating the corpse of a beloved film, there’s one golden rule for reboots: you need to bring something new to the table. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle – where there are...

This was originally reviewed on 09/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Takashi Miike’s 100th film Blade of the Immortal is concrete proof that the director has no intentions of slowing down. The usual...

Directed, written, and produced by the film’s star Ana Asensio, Most Beautiful Island is a confident and innovative feature film debut. Following the film’s protagonist Luciana, an undocumented immigrant...

Arriving against the backdrop of division, intolerance and hate that is 2017, Wonder is exactly what the doctor ordered to cheer us all up in time for Christmas. With a marketing campaign based around the...