EMILIA PEREZ
A musical unlike any you’ll have seen, Emilia Pérez has a ballsy narrative, thematic ambition and visual delights, with a spellbinding...
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FILM REVIEWS
Jun 1
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
Seventy years after the first film Godzilla Minus One becomes the best movie in the franchise: a thrillride that sees the impressive...
Jan 13
MONSTER
Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s peels away layers of mystery, emotion and heartfelt insight into the human condition in the touching Monster, which...
Dec 25, 2023
PAST LIVES
Astute, tremendously relatable observations about love, regret and lives not lived permeate the gentle gem Past Lives, culminating in a...
Sep 3, 2023
DANGEROUS LIAISONS
With a dazzlingly devious script and succulent performances by a top cast Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most entertaining, deliciously...
Jun 26, 2023
ELEMENTAL
Call me a sentimental fool, but I fell head over heels in love with Pixar’s charming Elemental, which for the little new ground it treads...
Apr 19, 2023
AS BESTAS
Like the very best psychological thrillers As Bestas is both an uneasy watch and a stupendously well-wrought piece of suspense you cannot...
Jan 6, 2023
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
The miracle of this Irish variant on classic Greek tragedy is that it manages to spin a surprisingly layered, deeply moving tale out of...
Nov 30, 2022
GOOD NIGHT OPPY
Good Night Oppy had me welling up more than once as I rooted all the way for the Mars rovers at the centre of the film. It's easily one...
Aug 1, 2022
WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
The movie might look naïve and vanilla on the surface but inspect a bit closer and you'll find a complexity that fascinates and moves...
Jan 9, 2022
LAMB
The imminent dread of the narrative and the foreboding backdrops of the rugged Icelandic landscape merge into a dark, haunting,...
Dec 10, 2021
WEST SIDE STORY
I was totally won over by the sheer cinematic joy Spielberg and his team conjure up during 2.5 blissful hours. For the majority of the...
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