Film Review: The Rider
★★★★☆ Existing in a similar milieu to her feature debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Chloé Zhao’s The Rider is a delicate portrayal of an...
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6 September 2024
Film Review: Firebrand
★★☆☆☆ “An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,” Percy Shelley once wrote in his sonnet England in 1819. He was firing his barbs at King George III but the words could just as well be used for any number of English monarchs including Henry VIII.
26 July 2024
Film Review: About Dry Grasses
★★★★★ Turkish master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to the Cannes Croisette with About Dry Grasses, a wonderful wintry meditation on male fragility and the way we often make our own hells and then deceive ourselves that we’re trapped.
21 June 2024
Film Review: Green Border
★★★★☆ From sub-Saharan Africa to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq and Iran, the climate crisis, drought, war, and oppression has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. It is treated as an ethical conundrum, but it isn’t. Either we wish to save those who are in danger of dying, or all our talk of human rights is just so much hot air. This is the core concern of Green Border.
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Film Review: Boy Erased
★★★★☆ Over the last few years, Joel Edgerton has been quietly making a name for himself as a solid director, picking interesting, disturbing material...
Film Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
★★★★★ Following 2016’s Moonlight, the unparalleled Barry Jenkins returns with If Beale Street Could Talk, a near-perfect adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel. That this...
Film Review: A Faithful Man
★★★★☆ In his Truffaut-esque shaggy-dog love story A Faithful Man, actor turned director Louis Garrel takes an irreverent look at fidelity, power dynamics and...
DVD Review: Witness for the Prosecution
★★★★☆ While not amongst the greater, more celebrated titles in Billy Wilder’s acclaimed filmography, his big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the...
Film Review: Beautiful Boy
★★★☆☆ Belgian director Felix van Groeningen brings his talents to bear on the true story of Nic Sheff (Timothée Chalamet), a talented and charismatic...
Film Review: Fahrenheit 11/9
★★★☆☆ In the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, Michael Moore looks back at the multi-faceted reasons behind the unthinkable result. Juxtaposed against...
Film Review: Out of Blue
★★★☆☆ Based on the Martin Amis novel Night Train, Carol Morley’s Out of Blue is a metaphysical neo-noir with a world-weary performance from Patricia...
