Category: Films
Megalopolis review – Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboring
Everyone who loves cinema owes Francis Ford Coppola a very great deal … including honesty. His ambitious and earnestly intended new film, resoundingly dedicated to [more…]
The Strangers: Chapter 1 review – unnecessary horror retread
In a genre in which innovation is increasingly resigned to the furthest outskirts, there’s something almost admirable about just how staggeringly redundant The Strangers: Chapter [more…]
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review – Rungano Nyoni’s strange, intense tale of sexual abuse
Rungano Nyoni is the Zambian-Welsh film-maker who in 2017 had an arthouse smash with her debut, the witty and distinctive misogyny fable I Am Not [more…]
The Girl With the Needle review – horrific drama based on Denmark’s 1921 baby-killer case
Just in case you were thinking that this is an upbeat story of a sweet young seamstress winning BBC TV’s The Great British Sewing Bee, [more…]
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes
‘My childhood! My mother! I want them back!” With this howl of anguish, young Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, sets the tone of vengeful rage [more…]
If review – John Krasinski’s so-so, sentimental family fantasy
If, the new kids comedy from John Krasinski, has all the elements of a family friendly hit: a healthy dose of sentimentality, a heavy emphasis [more…]
Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters
The cruel and unwelcoming fashion magazine editor at the icy heart of 2006 comedy hit The Devil Wears Prada may not strike many viewers as [more…]
Wild Diamond review – French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy
Feature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bringing the TikTok energy for this story of a wannabe Insta influencer-princess from the wrong side of the tracks – [more…]
‘I am gross, animal and carnal’: Luna Carmoon on her disturbing, stinky-scented new film
To reach Luna Carmoon, who is at the other end of a banquet table tucking into her vegetable pie, I have to shuffle sideways along [more…]
The Second Act review – Quentin Dupieux’s likable meta comedy of actors’ private lives
Cannes can always do worse than choose a comedy for its opening gala, and the festival is off to an amiable, entertaining start. Quentin Dupieux [more…]
