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15/02/2019
Film Review: Happy Death Day 2U
★★★☆☆ The day after the events of Happy Death Day – in which Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) must relive her murderContinue Reading
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14/02/2019
Film Review: Jellyfish
★★★☆☆ Jellyfish delivers a thoughtful commentary on theatre and art through a bleak narrative of broken family life. It’s anchoredContinue Reading
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13/02/2019
Film Review: A Private War
★★★★★ Matthew Heineman, best-known for his acclaimed documentaries Cartel Land and City of Ghosts, seamlessly makes the transition to fictionContinue Reading
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06/09/2017
Film Review: Mektoub, My Love
★★★☆☆ Blue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love finally arrives in UK cinemas this week, overContinue Reading
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17/02/2019
Berlin 2019: Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms wins Golden Bear
With Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick passing on the baton to former Locarno artistic director Carlo Chatrian from next year, noContinue Reading
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16/02/2019
Berlin 2019: So Long, My Son review
★★★★☆ Sixth generation director Wang Xiaoshuai returns to Berlin with a decade-spanning family drama set against some of the most turbulentContinue Reading
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16/02/2019
Berlin 2019: Hellhole review
★★★★☆ In Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown, Juliette Binoche’s character Anne rides the Paris metro and is spat at by aContinue Reading
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16/02/2019
Film Review: The Lady Eve
★★★★★ To modern audiences, screwball comedies serve as slapstick forms of the moving image. Yet, behind this, they unbalance genderContinue Reading
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15/02/2019
Berlin 2019: Varda by Agnès review
★★★★☆ Varda by Agnès contains the best parts of Agnès Varda: work, wit and wisdom. Though it does not reachContinue Reading
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14/02/2019
Berlin 2019: The Souvenir review
★★★★☆ At an early point in The Souvenir, the protagonist explains that filmmaking is, for her, a form of therapy.Continue Reading
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14/02/2019
Berlin 2019: Mr. Jones review
★★★☆☆ Mr. Jones isn’t just middlebrow – it’s the middle of the middlebrow: core-brow; nucleus-brow. Agnieszka Holland’s lengthy but invariablyContinue Reading
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14/02/2019
Berlin 2019: I Was at Home, But review
★★★★☆ Angela Schanelec’s latest film I Was at Home, But opens on some reassuring farmyard animals. A dog chases aContinue Reading
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14/02/2019
Berlin 2019: Bait review
★★★★☆ Bait joins a recent spate of British films that have abandoned the cities to depict a countryside in crisis.Continue Reading
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13/02/2019
IFFR 2019: Koko-di Koko-da review
★★★★☆ In Swedish filmmaker Johannes Nyholm’s second feature Koko-di Koko-da, three bizarre characters from a children’s music box come toContinue Reading
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13/02/2019
Berlin 2019: The Plagiarists review
★★★★☆ A pair of self-absorbed millennials are forced to confront the lack of originality behind their ideas in Peter Parlow’sContinue Reading
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12/02/2019
Berlin 2019: Monos review
★★★★☆ In Monos, a diverse group of hormonal teenage soldiers man an isolated outpost during an unseen war. Their stationContinue Reading