Category: Ben Nicholson

★★★☆☆ The always interesting Karel Roden is the MVP in Julius Ševčík’s A Prominent Patient, playing Czechoslovakian diplomat Jan MasarykContinue Reading

★★☆☆☆ The Barden Bellas return to the spotlight in their third outing, an uneven European tour that wraps a niceContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos follows up 2015’s The Lobster with his second English-language feature. Starring Colin Farrell and NicoleContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ In select UK cinemas this week, Italian director Federica Di Giacomo eschews genre sensationalism for her Palermo-set exorcism documentaryContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Beginning as a routine meander into the woods in search of birds, The Ornithologist becomes an unsettling and subversiveContinue Reading

★★☆☆☆ In Ian Dunlop’s biography of Louis XIV he describes the Sun King’s death, saying that he “yielded up hisContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Laura Poitras returns with another probing political documentary, but this time the film’s own post production proves as fascinatingContinue Reading