★★☆☆☆ Based on the Joyce Maynard novel of the same name, Labor Day (2013) sees Canadian director Jason Reitman undertake a marked departure from the forthright yet blithe approach that made his indie-spirited offerings such as Juno (2007) and Young […]
★★★★☆ Jealousy’s (2013) modesty belies its emotional and structural complexity. The new film from French auteur Philippe Garrel, it’s a short but substantial rumination on love and the life of the artist. It’s a deeply serious work that looks like […]
★★☆☆☆ Odenigbo (12 Years a Slave’s Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Olanna (Thandie Newton) are sat in uncomfortable silence at the dinner table before the quiet is pierced by a question: “Are we still trying to have a child?” This stuffy, uneasy […]
★★★☆☆ British actor and director Richard Ayoade follows up his sublime black comedy Submarine (2010) with intense and brooding sophomore feature The Double (2013), an adaptation of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella of the same name. Jesse Eisenberg (soon […]
After rightly drawing critical approval for his debut feature – an invigorating adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s novel Submarine, British comic-cum-filmmaker Richard Ayoade returns with second feature The Double (2013), taking as its source Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s dark, pre-Kafka novella but repositioning […]
David Gordon Green is that rarest of directors – unpredictable and eclectic. He’s directed gripping arthouse dramas like his debut George Washington (2000), stoner comedies like Pineapple Express (2008) and the historical spoof Your Highness (2011) – which America’s Salon […]
When Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013) was given its world premiere at last year’s 70th Venice Film Festival, the UK director was hoping for a powerful reaction and he duly got one. As part of the audience started to […]
