Film Review: ‘Frank’
★★★☆☆ Dublin-born director Lenny Abrahamson teams up with Guardian journalist Jon Ronson for offbeat, oddball comedy Frank (2013), inspired by the life and times...
★★★★☆ A swift but singular filmmaking self-portrait, Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me reflects on the French auteur’s 40-year directorial career, as well as his many cinematic – and canine – influences.
★★★★☆ Ralph Fiennes approaches top form as a spiritually and morally-conflicted cardinal during a Vatican Conclave in Edward Berger’s gripping, oft-humorous follow-up to the multi-Oscar-winning All Quiet On the Western Front.
The winners of this year’s 96th Academy Awards were announced earlier this morning at LA’s Dolby Theatre. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the big winner on the night, scooping seven Oscars in total including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
★★★☆☆ Dublin-born director Lenny Abrahamson teams up with Guardian journalist Jon Ronson for offbeat, oddball comedy Frank (2013), inspired by the life and times...
★★★☆☆ A champion of the elegant and elderly, New Yorker Ari Seth Cohen first started his fashion blog, Advanced Style, as a way of...
★★☆☆☆ Based on the autobiography of the late Second World War veteran Eric Lomax, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 93,...
★★★★☆ Kirk Douglas fans have been spoiled recently with not only a theatrical rerelease of Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 war drama Paths of Glory but also...
★★★★☆ The fourth feature of what would later evolve into a glittering directorial career, Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957) is not only a...
★★★★☆ The opening film of this year’s Bird’s Eye View Festival, Georgian director Nana Ekvtimishvili combines with German counterpart Simon Groß for In Bloom...
Following on from the overwhelming success of last year’s sophomore outing, American actor and director Robert Redford’s Sundance London film and music festival returns...
★★☆☆☆ Selected as part of the Directors’ Fortnight strand at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Basil da Cunha’s feature debut After the Night (2013)...