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Matthew Anderson Reviews

Film Review: The Painter and the Thief

30 October 202030 October 2020

★★★★☆ Again proving that great strength can be drawn from laying bare perceived weakness, Norwegian filmmaker Benjamin Ree’s The Painter and the Thief is an art heist film like […]

Matthew Anderson Reviews

Film Review: Mogul Mowgli

30 October 202030 October 2020

★★★☆☆ Riz Ahmed battles questions of cultural and religious identity, familial expectation, self and health in order to find his calling, and to find his […]

Matthew Anderson Reviews

Film Review: African Apocalypse

30 October 202030 October 2020

★★★★☆ “You’d never know what’s underneath, unless someone told you.” History books, lectures and internet searches cannot possibly substitute hearing first-hand the effects of Europe’s […]

Features

The worst film characters to meet in a casino

30 October 202030 October 2020

Casinos are great settings for movies. They hold the promise of high-stakes action, life-changing decisions, moral dilemmas, and an ever-present element of risk and danger, […]

Features

The five best casinos of the James Bond franchise

28 October 202029 October 2020

When we think of James Bond, our minds begin to fill with images of fast cars, beautiful women, glamourous locations, and danger. But this isn’t […]

Matthew Anderson Reviews

Film Review: Wolfwalkers

26 October 202026 October 2020

★★★★☆ Adding yet another jewel to their burgeoning crown, Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon’s latest film, Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s Wolfwalkers, is a triumphant […]

John Bleasdale Reviews

Film Review: Totally Under Control

23 October 202023 October 2020

★★★★☆ Documentary-making machine Alex Gibney (here joined by co-directors Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger) returns with a timely – perhaps too timely – postmortem on […]

Christopher Machell Reviews

Film Review: Summer of ’85

23 October 2020

★★★★☆ François Ozon returns to screens with Summer of ’85, based on Aidan Chambers’ novel Dance on My Grave. A sumptuously shot, nostalgic bildungsroman framed […]

Matthew Anderson Reviews

Film Review: One Man and His Shoes

22 October 202022 October 2020

★★★★☆ “How much do you get paid, just to wear these shoes?” David Letterman’s question to Michael Jordan is met with shrieks of delight from […]

John Bleasdale Reviews

Film Review: The Climb

22 October 202022 October 2020

★★★★☆ A revelation on a bike ride in France leads to a rift between two childhood friends, but through thick and thin, uphill and downhill, […]

Patrick Gamble Reviews

Film Review: Cinema Paradiso

22 October 202022 October 2020

★★★★☆ A major contributor to the reverential narrative of wistful cinema, Giuseppe Tornatore’s magnum opus Cinema Paradiso is an elegant distillation of the form’s escapist […]

Features

How cinema speaks to the other arts

19 October 202028 October 2020

It’s often been said that birds of a feather, flock together. That might not always be true when it comes to business but the entertainment […]

London Film Festival Matthew Anderson

#LFF 2020: Ammonite review

18 October 202022 October 2020

★★★☆☆ “Last year at this time we had snow, and now it’s nice.” An earth-shattering, potentially life-altering sea change occurs behind closed doors for two […]

Christopher Machell Reviews

Film Review: I Am Greta

18 October 202018 October 2020

★★☆☆☆ In 2018, a quiet 15 year-old girl from Sweden began protesting the climate crisis by striking from school. Amidst global disquiet and political inertia, […]

London Film Festival Zoe Margolis

#LFF 2020: Nomadland review

17 October 2020

★★★★★ Adapted from Jessica Bruder’s non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Nomadland is writer and director Chloé Zhao’s third feature-length film and […]

London Film Festival Matthew Anderson

#LFF 2020: Limbo review

17 October 2020

★★★★☆ Deadpan, absurdist comedy may not seem like an obvious genre choice for a story about the cruel, grinding bureaucracy of the UK’s asylum process. […]

Christopher Machell Reviews

Film Review: The Other Lamb

16 October 202016 October 2020

★★★★☆ This year’s surfeit of films about cults hits its stride with Malgorzata Szumowska’s first English-language picture. A visceral, Atwoodian journey, The Other Lamb is […]

Martyn Conterio Reviews

Film Review: Carmilla

16 October 2020

★★☆☆☆ Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla is among the most influential horror stories ever written. Director Emily Harris’ de-fanged adaptation follows plenty of other versions of […]

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