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This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our New York Film Festival coverage. The Tragedy of Macbeth marks Joel Coen’s dual venture into a metatextual adaptation of William...

Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actress. Winning over 100 awards in total, Nomadland’s success at the Oscars may have seemed, ultimately, inevitable, but there was still a surge of warranted joy when...

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. One of Cannes Film Festival’s most anticipated films, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, is a love letter to...

This film was previously reviewed in September 2020. Writer-director-editor Chloé Zhao’s genre experimentation within the poetic docudrama has come to technical fruition in Nomadland, elevating her to...

So many women’s stories are about freedom: choosing it, fearing it, paying for it. At the London Film Festival this year, two of the most talked about features - Nomadland and Ammonite - had the same...

A lot has happened since Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri streaked onto cinema screens in early January. A bachelor brought his girlfriend home to meet a bunch of crazy rich Asians in Singapore...

Summer means several things: Wimbledon, being cooked alive on the tube, and checking to see whether it's come home yet (it hasn't). It also means the release of our annual list charting the best movie moments...

For once our ORWAV Oscar nominations turned up a similar list to the Academy, suggesting that this time, maybe, they’ve recognised the right performances and films. With just a handful of underdogs creeping...

The character actor is often considered a vestige solely for male performers – Paul Giamatti, Gary Oldman, Steve Buscemi, J.K. Simmons; the list goes on. Often the bridesmaid, rarely the bride, these side...

A sensationally funny and affecting dark comedy, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri arrived at Venice just as the festival was hitting a slump, and reinvigorated it with a fiery passion. Martin...

A sensationally funny and affecting dark comedy, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri arrived at Venice just as the festival was hitting a slump, and has reinvigorated it with a fiery passion. Martin...

1. Robert Downey Jr. to talk, grunt, squeak and squawk with the animals Robert Downey Jr. is already used to speaking to a black widow, a falcon, a black panther and an ant, man. Now he’s going to have...

It’s impossible to rave enough about the elemental beauty of The Good Dinosaur. In its sunlight-speckled vistas it recalls Lord of the Rings; in its swaying fields, Malick; and in its rain-soaked grit,...