Film Review: Evil Does Not Exist
★★★★☆ Once, when talking about Stanley Kubrick’s seminal Barry Lyndon, Martin Scorsese referred to the film’s “almost Japanese sense of time”. If one was to be cynical, one ...
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Film Review: Io Capitano
★★★★☆ Following Agnieszka Holland’s land-bound refugee tale Green Border earlier this week, Matteo Garrone’s new film Io Capitano departs geographically further south and ...
Film Review: Jeanne du Barry
★★☆☆☆ Maïwenn’s French period drama Jeanne du Barry is the perfect opening salvo for the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It is as glitzy and gaudy as the festival itself, with its ...
Film Review: Abigail
★★☆☆☆ Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, best known for their recent Scream requels, have another quasi-ironic stab at genre cinema. This time we get a two for ...
Film Review: Challengers
★★★★☆ As the star of the superhero blockbuster declines, could this truly be the year that big, grown-up films return to cinemas? 2024 has already gifted us sci-fi spectacle ...
Film Review: Hit Man
★★★★☆ Tales of lone assassins and guns for hire are all based on urban myths. That’s the fact gleefully revealed in Richard Linklater’s latest crime comedy Hit Man, premiering ...
Film Review: Civil War
★★★★☆ His first film since 2022’s confused rural horror Men, Alex Garland’s return to screens sees the writer-director back on form with an intelligent blockbuster that may ...
Film Review: Maestro
★★★★☆ Following 2018’s A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper is back in the director’s chair for another musically-oriented film, a biopic of the composer Leonard Bernstein entitled ...
Film Review: Trenque Lauquen Parts 1 & 2
★★★★☆ When biologist Laura (Laura Paredes) goes missing, boyfriend Rafa (Rafael Spregelburd) and Ezequiel ‘Chicho’ (Ezequiel Pierri) embark on a search to find her. A sequel ...
Film Review: Godzilla Minus One
★★★★★ Godzilla Minus One is a monster movie of singular power, using horror-infused kaiju spectacle to deliver an emotionally compelling story of grief, wartime trauma, and ...
Film Review: Ferrari
★★★☆☆ American filmmaker Michael Mann returns to the big screen for Ferrari, a long-held passion project for the legendary director. As one would expect from the director of ...
Film Review: Priscilla
★★★★☆ Following Baz Luhrmann’s deliriously over-the-top 2022 film Elvis comes Sofia Coppola’s decidedly more understated Priscilla. In fact, it’s the polar opposite of Elvis ...