Category: Films
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger review – Rory Kinnear files a solid return as the bloke from Burnley
It won no prizes for subtlety, but cheerful, victory-of-the-underdog comedy Bank of Dave featured a stonking lead performance by Rory Kinnear as Dave Fishwick. He’s [more…]
Malcolm Le Grice obituary
In 1970 Malcolm Le Grice made the seven-minute film Berlin Horse. There is no narrative: original 8mm footage of a horse led around a yard [more…]
Rowan Atkinson at 70: his best films – ranked!
10. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Atkinson is the bumbling Father Gerald, who praises “the Holy Goat”, invites the happy couple to be “Johned [more…]
But what about … the most overlooked performances of this awards season
Demi Moore might get nominated for her first Oscar, four decades into her career, for a gonzo 140-minute body-horror satire that features literally gallons of [more…]
More fizzle than pop: the limits of Nicole Kidman’s erotic drama Babygirl
Arguably the most transgressive scene in Babygirl, A24’s erotic drama from the Dutch writer and director Halina Reijn that has Nicole Kidman on the awards [more…]
Maria review – Angelina Jolie’s Callas commands the screen as a great diva in decline
Angelina Jolie declaims an imperious performance as opera star Maria Callas in this strange, sad, mordantly witty film from screenwriter Steven Knight and director Pablo [more…]
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust tour comedy is a masterpiece
With no great fanfare, Jesse Eisenberg has just given us a masterpiece. This is an effortlessly witty, fluent and astringent comedy with a very serious [more…]
Babygirl review – Nicole Kidman sex-positive erotic thriller fails to bring the menace
Cosy crime is one thing. Is this a cosy erotic thriller? An apparently super-transgressive exercise in workplace sub/dom role play but that is weirdly without [more…]
Pepe review – inside the beautiful mind of Pablo Escobar’s hippo
Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias is the Dominican film-maker whose 2017 feature debut Cocote I found challenging and intriguing. Now he has created a [more…]
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story review – goofs on tour
Trailer Park Boys is a long-running, multiplatform Canadian sitcom that non-Canadians with a taste for bawdy comedy may know if they’ve let Netflix’s algorithm churn [more…]
