Cannes 2019: Portrait of a Lady on Fire review
★★★★☆ A highly flammable love affair smoulders in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is a painter with a spark […]
Film Review: The Lighthouse
★★★★★ There’s something heartening about genius being put in the service of madness. Already this Cannes we’ve seen the exemplar in a fully restored 4K […]
Cannes 2019: Little Joe review
★★★☆☆ Austrian director Jessica Hausner enters the race for this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes with Little Joe, a modest work of satirical sci-fi starring […]
Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You review
★★★★☆ Following his 2016 Palme d’Or triumph with I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach returns to the Cannes Film Festival with Sorry We Missed You, a […]
Cannes 2019: The Dead Don’t Die review
★★☆☆☆ Arch American indie icon and silver fox Jim Jarmusch lurches up the Cannes Croisette with the opening film The Dead Don’t Die, an undeadpan […]
Cannes 2019: Palme d’Or lineup announced
The Cannes lineup for its 72nd edition was announced today. Following a falling out with Netflix and the increasingly heavyweight competition of Venice, the 2019 […]
Film Review: Loro
★☆☆☆☆ Paolo Sorrentino announced himself on the international stage with the sterling Il Divo, a study of Italy’s perennial mover and fixer Giulio Andreotti and […]
Film Review: Last Breath
★★★☆☆ Saturation diving in the North Sea is a world of experience that most of us know nothing about. One of the divers in Alex […]
Film Review: Sharkwater Extinction
★★★★☆ The late Rob Stewart’s activist documentary Sharkwater Extinction is an urgent and moving plea for action against the illegal trade in shark fins and […]
Film Review: Benjamin
★★★☆☆ Released in UK cinemas this week, British actor and comedian Simon Amstell’s debut film Benjamin is a charming metropolitan rom-com which is ultimately too […]
Film Review: The Hole in the Ground
★★★☆☆ A young woman retreats to the Irish countryside with her son in Lee Cronin’s debut feature The Hole in the Ground. Sarah O’Neill (Seána […]
Film Review: The Workshop
★★★☆☆ Alexei Sayle once cautioned that you should never enter a workshop that doesn’t have a vice in it. French writer-director Laurent Cantet’s new film […]
Venice 2018: Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma wins Golden Lion
The winner of last year’s Golden Lion for The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro joked “Let me see if I can pronounce this,” before […]
Film Review: The Nightingale
★★★☆☆ The lone woman in competition last year at the Venice Film Festival, Jennifer Kent brings her Tasmanian gothic tale The Nightingale, a violent and […]
Film Review: 22 July
★★★☆☆ British director Paul Greengrass’ Netflix-backed 22 July recreates the terrorist attacks on the island of Utøya and Oslo in 2011, and tracks how Norway […]
Film Review: Sunset
★★★☆☆ Hungarian director László Nemes’ long-awaited follow-up to his Oscar-winning Son of Saul, Sunset thrusts us into a Mitteleuropean heart of darkness and a fever […]
Venice 2018: Vox Lux review
★★★★★ We’ve already had A Star Is Born here at Venice. Now, with Brady Corbet’s latest film Vox Lux, we have A Star Is Torn – […]
Venice 2018: Dragged Across Concrete review
★★☆☆☆ S. Craig Zahler falls between ever-widening stools with his brutal new crime drama Dragged Across Concrete, which might have been more representative of the […]