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 ...
Category Archives: Reviews
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 ...
Film Review: Poor Things
★★★★★ Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet, Poor Things. This ...
Film Review: The Zone of Interest
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence ...
Film Review: Monster
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns ...
Film Review: El Conde
★★★☆☆ Chilean director Pablo Larraín has made the treatment of the great, the famous, and the powerful his topic of preference, eschewing the lower end of the social scale ...
Film Review: Past Lives
★★★★★ Childhood friends Na-Young (Greta Lee) and Hae-Sung’s (Yoo Teo) young lives are irrevocably changed when Na-Young’s family emigrate from South Korea to Canada, until the ...
Film Review: Passages
★★★★☆ American indie director Ira Sachs returns to UK screens with his comic romantic drama Passages, a pointed, revealing study of selfishness and an all-too familiar ...