DVD Review: ‘Stuck in Love’
★★★☆☆ Debut director Josh Boone’s Stuck in Love (2012) is an intelligent romantic comedy about love, loss, the consolations of literature and the familial...
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6 December 2020
Small Axe: Alex Wheatle review
★★★★★ The latest offering from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series, Alex Wheatle (co-written with Alastair Siddons) features an impressive debut from Sheyi Cole in...
26 November 2020
Small Axe: Red, White and Blue review
★★★★★ Steve McQueen’s extraordinary five-part series, Small Axe, set in the heart of London’s West Indian community from the 1960s to the 1980s, continues...
3 January 2020
Film Review: Amanda
★★★★☆ Mikhaël Hers’ sensitive, heartfelt third feature Amanda is about loss and bereavement in the aftermath of a brutal terrorist attack in a Paris park....
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DVD Review: ‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’
★★★★☆ Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s provocative documentary Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013) follows the trial of Nadia (Nadezhda Tolokonnikova), Katia (Ekaterina Samutsevich)...
DVD Review: ‘Buck’
★★★★☆ Cindy Meehl’s poignant portrait of horse whisperer Buck Brannaman, the subject of author Nicholas Evans’ bestselling novel and the 1998 Robert Redford Hollywood...
DVD Review: ‘Renoir’
★★★☆☆ Renoir (2012), Gilles Bourdos’ sumptuous portrait of the French master’s final years and his filmmaker son Jean’s first creative stirrings, is big on...
DVD Review: ‘Summer in February’
★★★☆☆ Equestrian artist Alfred Munnings’ love affair and disastrous marriage to aspiring painter Florence Carter-Wood is the subject of Christopher Menaul’s involving costume drama...
DVD Review: ‘Shun Li and the Poet’
★★★★☆ Italian documentarian Andrea Segre’s debut feature about the exploitation of immigrant workers in his native country, Shun Li and the Poet (2011), packs...
DVD Review: ‘Populaire’
★★★★☆ Régis Roinsard scores a palpable hit with debut feature Populaire (2012), a romantic comedy about speed-typing, starring Déborah Francois, Romain Duris and The...
DVD Review: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’
★★★★☆ New York-based Indian director Mira Nair was well-placed to helm a big-screen adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist – and thankfully...
