Reviews

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The Phantom Of The Open is the kind of heart-warming, unlikely true-life tale...

On paper, Adrian Lyne looked like a safe bet when it came to choosing a...

The title Great Freedom (taken from the name of a Berlin gay club) is laced...

After working together on last year’s Truman Show-esque action-comedy Free...

Simon Rex’s Mikey Saber is a twitchy creature, head held high, as if he’s...

In so many ways, Pixar’s Turning Red — the feature debut from Domee Shi, the...

Optimism is a rare thing to find in a Clio Barnard film. Her bruising debut...

DJ, filmmaker, band manager, fashion icon, musician, social butterfly… Don...

Batman has become Bat-ubiquitous. Gotham’s protector is rarely far away from...

Old-school rock music and classic horror cinema have a lot in common. They...

Sadly and unwittingly, The Duke is British filmmaker Roger Michell’s swan...

Joe Wright’s Cyrano opens on a beautifully framed image of a marionette. After...

Perhaps inevitably, La Mif (‘The Fam’, French slang for ‘family’) has drawn...

Following in the footsteps of the recent Halloween and Candyman legacy sequels...

Unless you were properly on the ball, you’d be forgiven for thinking that...

“Who was the real Charlie Chaplin?” It’s a simple enough question with an...

Dog isn’t the movie you think it is. From its poster and tagline (“A filthy...

Petrov’s Flu is the first film made by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov...

This is a break-up romcom, in the Forgetting Sarah Marshall vein: one that...

Back in 2011, in a commercial made for the Japanese market but which has since...

The wedding planner meets a wedding crasher; it feels like the big studio...

After the quietly sweeping Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has weaved another...

Refugee stories have a tragic, crushing universality about them: dank...