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by 24/06/2018

Film Review: Incredibles 2

★★★★☆ The Marvel Cinematic Universe may have the market hold, but Incredibles 2 – which arrives some fourteen years afterContinue Reading

by 14/09/2017

Christopher Machell Reviews

Film Review: Racer and the Jailbird

★★☆☆☆ Racer Bibi (Adèle Exarchopoulos) gets her adrenaline kicks on the track, but Jailbird Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts) takes his rushContinue Reading

by 04/09/2017

John Bleasdale Reviews

Film Review: Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

★★★☆☆ Frederick Wiseman returns to UK cinemas this week with Ex Libris, a three-hour-plus-change piece on the New York PublicContinue Reading

by 31/08/2017

John Bleasdale Reviews

Film Review: First Reformed

★★★★☆ Legendary screenwriter (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) and director (Mishima, Cat People) Paul Schrader returns to form with a startling,Continue Reading

by 11/07/2018

Ben Nicholson Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Karlovy Vary 2018: Our festival highlights

“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” Radu Jude’s film claimed the top prize atContinue Reading

by 11/07/2018

Ben Nicholson Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Karlovy Vary 2018: Winter Flies review

★★★★☆ Olmo Omerzu’s follow-up to the stinging satire of 2015’s Family Film is another tale of children left to theirContinue Reading

by 11/07/2018

Karlovy Vary Film Festival Sara Merican

Karlovy Vary 2018: Happy as Lazzaro review

★★★★☆ Alice Rohrwacher returns with her remarkable third film about a rural Italian community. Happy as Lazzaro sparkles with soul,Continue Reading

by 11/07/2018

Ben Nicholson Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Karlovy Vary 2018: Profile review

★★★☆☆ Unfolding entirely on a laptop screen, Timur Bekmambetov’s new thriller Profile seeks to explore the murky world of howContinue Reading

by 11/07/2018

Karlovy Vary Film Festival Sara Merican

Karlovy Vary 2018: Burning review

★★★★☆ Lee Chang-dong’s Burning features red-hot actor Yoo Ah-in (as Jong-su), Steven Yeun (as Ben) and newcomer Jeon Jong-seo (asContinue Reading

by 11/07/2018

Ben Nicholson Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Karlovy Vary 2018: “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” review

★★★★☆ Following 2015’s Aferim!, Radu Jude returns to the topic of historical Romanian anti-Semitism in his furious new satire “IContinue Reading

by 09/07/2018

Christopher Machell Home Ent

DVD Review: Allure

★★☆☆☆ Laura (Evan Rachel Wood) is working for her father’s cleaning company when she meets 16-year-old Eva (Julie Sarah Stone)Continue Reading

by 05/07/2018

Interviews Tom Duggins

Interview: Johanna St Michaels, dir. The Inertia Variations

Johanna St Michaels is a writer and director whose films Penthouse North (2014) and The Islands Amid The World (2011)Continue Reading

by 28/06/2018

Film Festivals Patrick Gamble

FEST – New Directors New Films Festival roundup

“If you give an audience all the answers they’ll forget you as soon as they leave the cinema. But, ifContinue Reading

by 28/06/2018

Martyn Conterio Reviews

Film Review: Vagabond

★★★★★ Back in UK cinemas to mark a BFI retrospective of the French New Wave director, Agnès Varda’s acclaimed 1985 road movieContinue Reading

by 28/06/2018

Maximilian von Thun Reviews

Film Review: Sicario 2: Soldado

★★★☆☆ Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario was a masterclass in direction, cinematography, sound design and dramatic tension. This year’s sequel Sicario 2:Continue Reading