Film
For those of a nervous disposition, is Sinners worth it?
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners won four Oscars and was nominated for 16 and I’d yet to see it. Sometimes the labels…
Toni Servillo’s face cannot bore: La Grazia reviewed
Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia is about an ageing Italian president who is coming to the end of his seven-year term,…
The Peaky Blinders film is surprisingly literate
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is the film that fans of the television show have long been waiting for, so…
Fascinating: EPiC – Elvis Presley in Concert reviewed
EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert is a concert documentary that grew out of the 65 boxes of unseen Las Vegas…
Doesn’t put a foot wrong: The Secret Agent reviewed
Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent, which is about an academic on the run during Brazil’s brutal military dictatorship, won…
Gripping: Melania reviewed
The documentary Melania, which follows the first lady in the 20 days leading up to her husband’s 2025 presidential inauguration,…
Wuthering Heights’ race row is the height of nonsense
Most of us associate Wuthering Heights with high school English classes or Kate Bush caterwauling over the moors while exhibiting…
Beautiful if hagiographic portrait of Godard
Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague dramatises the (chaotic) making of Breathless (1960), Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic. It’s a film…
The cruelty of H is for Hawk
The cruelty of H is for Hawk
What drama gets right and wrong about science
A few days after Tom Stoppard’s death last month, Michael Baum, a distinguished surgeon, wrote a letter to the Times.…
Brendan Fraser is the king of the everyman: Rental Family reviewed
Rental Family stars Brendan Fraser as an out-of-work American actor living in Tokyo. He accepts employment with an agency that…
Ruthlessly manipulative: Hamnet reviewed
Hamnet is an imagined account of William Shakespeare’s marriage to Agnes (Anne) Hathaway, their unspeakable grief at the death of…
Sublime: Song Sung Blue reviewed
Song Sung Blue is a musical biopic of the real-life Milwaukee couple who formed a Neil Diamond tribute act and…
Noah Baumbach needs to try harder: Jay Kelly reviewed
Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly stars George Clooney as a handsome movie star playing a handsome movie star who has an…
An adorable Taiwanese debut: Left-Handed Girl reviewed
Left-Handed Girl is a Taiwanese drama about a single mother who moves back to Taipei with her two daughters to…
The cult of Powell & Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going!
I know where I’m going. I’m on the sleeper train chugging out of Euston and heading to Fort William. A…
Disastrous adaptation of a wonderful book
The Thing With Feathers is an adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novella about a widower who is left to raise…
Mrs Göring is far too sympathetic: Nuremberg reviewed
Nuremberg is one of those films that falls short on everything it wants to be and everything it could be.…
Del Toro’s Frankenstein offers nothing new
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein stars Oscar Isaac (Baron Victor Frankenstein) and Jacob Elordi (‘the creature’) and retells the basics of…
Dimes Square on screen
I can’t watch films anymore without looking at my phone. If I watch a film on my laptop, I’ll be…
Peak wackiness: Lanthimos’s Bugonia reviewed
Bugonia is the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, The Lobster, Poor Things) and it’s about a conspiracy theorist…
The new Springsteen biopic is cringe
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a biopic of ‘the boss’ starring Jeremy Allen White. It is not cradle to…
The bliss of un-fame
In July, astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System discovered an interstellar object racing through the solar system at…
Very pretty and pretty gruesome: Ballad of a Small Player reviewed
Ballad of a Small Player opens with Lord Doyle, played by Colin Farrell, hiding from security in his trashed casino…
Propulsive, funny – and what a car chase: One Battle After Another reviewed
Is Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest as good as everyone is saying? That it has a run time of nearly three…
