Film Review: ‘Any Day Now’
★★★★☆ Travis Fine’s poignant second feature about a gay couple’s attempts to adopt a Down’s syndrome child is a well-crafted drama with a powerful...
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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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Film Review: ‘Bonjour Tristesse’
★★★★☆ This Park Circus rerelease of Otto Preminger’s 1958 classic Bonjour Tristesse, based on the Françoise Saigon novella and starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven...
Film Review: ‘What Maisie Knew’
★★★★☆ Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s What Maisie Knew (2012) is a contemporary adaptation of the classic Henry James novel. The duo have chosen...
Film Review: ‘Looking for Hortense’
★★★☆☆ Pascal Bonitzer’s domestic dramedy Looking for Hortense (2012), starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Isabelle Carré, has a topical slant that lifts...
DVD Review: ‘A Late Quartet’
★★★★☆ Yaron Zilberman’s feature debut A Late Quartet (2012), starring Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken, follows the fortunes of an acclaimed...
DVD Review: ‘We Shall Overcome’
★★★★☆ Niels Arden Oplev’s (director of the first in the original Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy and the recent Deadfall) partly...
DVD Review: ‘Flying Blind’
★★★☆☆ Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s assured debut feature Flying Blind (2012), starring Helen McCrory, Najib Oudghiri and Kenneth Cranham, is a political thriller with a sting...
DVD Review: ‘Broken’
★★★★☆ Rufus Norris’ terrific debut feature, Broken (2012), is about the rites of passage of Skunk (Eloise Lawrence), an 11-year girl growing up in...
