★★★★☆ Compliance (2012), Craig Zobel’s provocative sophomore feature, is an unsettling look at workers in an almost pathological state of subservience. Recalling the Milgram psychological experiments of the 1960s, which demonstrated the blind willingness of subjects to follow authority figures […]
★★☆☆☆ Continuing the current trend of bringing live-action fairytales to the big screen, Bryan Singer’s fi-fi-fo-fum fantasy Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) (not ‘Killer’ – that might scare the kids) finally reaches UK cinemas this week, with Nicholas Hoult, Stanley […]
★☆☆☆☆ With its flabby runtime, redundant set-pieces and ersatz moralising, Identity Thief (2013) is a précis of the current dire state of US studio comedy. The success of the few has become the curse of the many; for every Bridesmaids […]
★★★★☆ Neighbouring Sounds (2012) is Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s narrative feature debut, his previous stint behind the camera being Critico (2008), a documentary about interrelations between filmmakers and critics (his past profession). Set in his home city of Recife, […]
