Tagged Javier Bardem

This film was previously reviewed in February 2020 as part of our Berlinale Film Festival coverage. The gradual loss of a person to dementia is an incredibly painful process to witness; Sally Potter draws...

As he closes out his fourth decade directing feature films with the UK release of Pain and Glory - his twenty-first feature - this week, it feels an opportune moment to reflect on the virtuoso career of...

Both booed and applauded at the end of its first screening at Venice Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! is a raucous, vicious horror-thriller that also happens to be utter nonsense. It hangs together...

After nearly 10 years of development, The Dark Tower is finally coming to the big screen. Under the direction of Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), the movie hopes to launch an expansive film and television...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge is at its best with its feet firmly placed on dry land. The first act features some inventive and amusing capers in the port of St Martin, but unfortunately the...

A promising cast - and presumably some noble intentions - are completely squandered by Sean Penn is his atrociously mishandled, inadvertently hilarious and often offensive The Last Face. When a script is...

Just when Liam Neeson looked to become the genre’s leading man, the leather-faced Sean Penn wants a piece of the revenge-action pie, here starring as former hitman-with-a-heart Jim Terrier. The crux of...

Mike Newell’s Love in the Time of Cholera is a trial and its two hours have sticky minutes. Certainly I am unable to watch it all in one sitting; it feels like a lifetime. Perhaps this was intentional in...