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This film was previously reviewed on 20/02/2018 as part of Berlinale 2018. “Why does one run towards ruin?” As Oscar Wilde, Rupert Everett is a self-indulgent falling star, a whimsical washout whining...

This weekend saw the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, an origin story which stars Alden Ehrenreich as the eponymous smuggler and answers some of the burning questions that Star Wars fans have asked for...

This film was previously reviewed 30/08/17 on as part of Venice Film Festival. "White guys go crazy in the South American jungle" is a well-worn genre at this point. From Werner Herzog’s one-two of...

This review was published as part of our Cannes festival coverage on 13/05/2018. If you want to know what a film is, ask Jafar Panahi. Under the thumb of a repressive Iranian regime that censors its cinema,...

This film was previously reviewed on 22/02/18 as part of Berlinale. The hijacking of Air France 139 was the work of numerous factions allied to a range of political causes, and their interplay is one of the...

Here’s a tough one: how do you make a cinema audience sympathise with a WW2 Nazi? It’s probably best that he doesn’t buy into the regime - no-one would like that. It would help to make him reject the...

Spike Lee’s Pass Over brings Antoinette Nwandu’s play of the same name to the screen, delivering something that’s neither a fresh work nor your run-of-the-mill filmed play. Pass Over begins with shots...

This film was previously reviewed on 19/02/18 as part of Berlinale Festival. It’s hard to decide which elements of Isle of Dogs are the definitive "perfect fit" for Wes Anderson. Obviously Fantastic Mr....

This film was previously reviewed on 25/02/18 as part of Berlinale Festival. Steven Soderbergh takes a pulpy turn in his latest lo-fi thriller Unsane, which follows a woman who unwittingly ends up in a...

The first thing to come to mind when someone mentions Pacific Rim – and now its sequel, out this Friday – is bombastic cartoon violence between kaiju monsters and giant mecha, writ large in 3D-IMAX glory....

This week sees the release of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story – a documentary about the Hollywood icon whose contributions to communication technology have been largely overlooked. Louis B. Mayer may have...

This film was previously reviewed on 27/09/17 as part of London Film Festival. A Fantastic Woman arrives with a lot of prestige behind it. Sebastian Lelio’s film won the Silver Lion at Berlin after rave...

We honestly couldn’t tell you what happens in Mute. And that’s not a spoiler warning. Alexander Skarsgård is a mute bartender searching for his missing girlfriend, Paul Rudd is a black-market surgeon and...

This review was originally published as part of our Berlin International Film Festival coverage on 24/02/2018. Beguiling and bewildering from the very opening, in which lead character Madeline is shown to...

Yesterday was the day many film fans have been waiting for: the 2018 Oscars nominations have been revealed! To celebrate and debate the (delightful and outrageous) results of this announcement are Copy Editor...