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This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. David Byrne’s American Utopia begins with what is almost a caricature of the man himself. Infamously awkward...

The Fight is a film of great baseline competence and only scant insight. As a document of four emblematic battles brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Trump administration—respectively...

It’s no coincidence that Tenet will likely be the film leading the charge back into cinemas this summer. Its director, Christopher Nolan, is a staunch defender of the cinematic experience, and perhaps the...

For what seems like the hundredth time, Steve Bannon positions himself next to a young woman for a photograph. With a flourish, he says "you go in the middle – a rose between two thorns." By the end of The...

“How the fuck did we get here?” asks Michael Moore at the start of his new documentary-cum-raging leftist polemic Fahrenheit 11/9, reflecting on the night Donald Trump was named 45th President of the...

Who dares to face down Malcolm Tucker? By 2009, Peter Capaldi’s tartan terror had been blazing through the halls of Westminster for four years – obliterating all who unknowingly stumbled into his path. His...

These are not tolerant times. It takes no stretch of the imagination to picture a minority man being swiftly sentenced to death because his peers were too lazy or short-sighted or racist to view his case as...

As I write this, Hillary Clinton is giving her concession speech. It’s gracious, well-meaning, self-effacing and hits the same old marks we hear every four years from the only person who can order 40,000...

What’s in a name? Not much. Unless that name is Weiner. Directors Kriegman and Steinberg gain unparalleled access to the disgraced dick-pic Democrat as he runs for New York mayor. Their intimate approach...

Welcome to Clooney/Heslov’s Bolivian campaign, The Ides of March-ing Powder if you will. As a good humoured drama, with the laughs peaking at a choice use of Sandra’s buttocks, this is light yet...

South Africa was on the brink of civil war in the early 1990s. Nelson Mandela’s release from prison was not the start of the troubles - he had been in prison for decades for fighting the institutional...

Cast: Liam Neeson, Ewan MacGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd Director: George Lucas Writer: George Lucas Estimated Budget: $115 million U.S. Gross: $474 million Do I have impeccable...