Cinema
Fists of cash, hookers and a candle in your bum palls after a while
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street will set the cat among the pigeons as a number of films do.…
Deborah Ross: 12 Years a Slave harrowed me to within an inch of my life
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave goes directly to the heart of American slavery without any shilly-shallying — unlike The…
'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' is a very, very long walk indeed
The biopic Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom is a timely tribute, and an earnest and respectful and well-meaning one,…
Interview Naomie Harris: It was hard playing the dark side of Winnie Mandela
Will Gore talks to Naomie Harris about playing Winnie Mandela
What it's like to spend 90 minutes in the women's loo of a thumping nightclub
Powder Room is a small British film all about women and starring only women — boo-hoo, men; my heart bleeds…
Deborah Ross: If you don't enjoy Saving Mr Banks, there's something wrong with you
Saving Mr Banks tells ‘the untold true story’ of the making of the Disney classic Mary Poppins via the stand-offs…
Trading Places at 30 - one of the funniest films of all time
Next month marks the 30th anniversary of the release of what is, in my opinion, one of the funniest films…
Jennifer Lawrence is plain brilliant in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
In the future, everyone will have silly names. Some people will be called Haymitch Abernathy. Others will be Effie Trinket…
The Butler, about a black domestic in the White House, is too painfully obvious
The Butler tells the story of an African–American butler at the White House who served eight American presidents over three…
Ryan Gosling couldn’t play Taki better than Taki
Seduced and Abandoned is both a satire on film-making and a love letter to film-making and a joy. A documentary…
Philomena is Dame Judi’s film
Philomena is based on the true story of an Irish woman searching for the son stolen from her by the…
Deborah Ross: The Selfish Giant is not fresh, but it's superbly performed
The Selfish Giant is a British social-realism film in the tradition of all such films from Kes onwards, so it…
Tom Hanks is the greatest actor alive
The main thing you should know about Captain Phillips is that it really puts you through the wringer. It’s based…
Four good reasons not to watch The Fifth Estate
Just how interesting you find The Fifth Estate may entirely depend on how interested you are in the whistle-blowing site…
I watched Filth from behind my hands. It's ghastly and unpleasant, but what I saw of it was brilliant
People are generally saying Filth fully fulfils the promise of its title and is not for the faint of heart…
Woody Allen's new film will so knock your socks off, you will never retrieve them again
Blue Jasmine is the latest film from Woody Allen who, at various stages of his career, has been declared on-form,…
No rest for Diana - the biopic of the late princess is so inept it's not even hagiography
Someone who knows their Dianaology will have to fill me in – did this actually happen? The late Princess Di…
White House Down is Roland Emmerich’s Hedda Gabler
Just do it, quoth the Nike advert — and these men just did it. Grass, asphalt, fear, pain, doubt and…
About Time review: If Richard Curtis is brilliant at anything, it’s Upper Middle Class Lifestyle Porn
The easiest thing would be to sneer at Richard Curtis’s new film About Time, and so I will a little,…
A painful but brilliant film: Deborah Ross on Maisie’s betrayal
What Maisie Knew is an adaptation of the Henry James 1897 novel, updated to Manhattan in the now, and is…
Kuma would shine at any time of the year
Mid-August is a hopeless time for films; so hopeless, useless and bleak, if I don’t use three words when one…
It’s possible that Deborah Ross left her critical faculties outside the screening room
The thing is, I love the character of Alan Partridge so much it may well be that, when it came…
Sandra Bullock must be blindfolded when she picks her movies
Sandra Bullock is a highly watchable actress and she seems like she’d be fun to hang out with — I…
At last, a film about proper women who aren’t just drippily searching for love
Frances Ha will make many spit ‘Frances…Bah!’ but I won’t be among them. Yes, it is rather kooky, and highly…
Wadjda is Saudi Arabia’s first feature-length film and is shot by a woman
Wadjda is the first feature-length film to come out of Saudi Arabia, and was shot by the country’s first female…
