Reviews

A son returns from war and doesn't want to get mixed up in the family...

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...

Hollywood is so obsessed with origin stories that even stories that weren’t...

Though centred on a teenager seemingly content to fade into the background...

In one of many brilliant scenes in The Souvenir Part II, a quiet drama is...

With Moonfall, you can practically imagine the pitch meeting that willed it...

Given the nature of its bone-breaking, ball-busting brand of comedy, the...

There’s a lot to be said about the extraordinary world of televangelism, and...

Sean Penn’s latest directing gig gives his daughter, Dylan Penn, a solid...

Using a decaying house as a visual metaphor in horror movies isn’t new, but in...

A softly spoken gorilla sings an impassioned cover of Coldplay’s EDM banger ‘A...

If you need proof of how far the global balance has been tilted in favour of...

Parallel Mothers is a magic trick courtesy of Pedro Almodóvar. Built on a...