Film reviews

A chilling psychological thriller about envy, stolen identity and crimes of passion set in the stunning landscape of the Italian Riviera.

Archivist documentarian Adam Curtis returns with ‘An Emotional History of the Modern World’, an attempt to chart how we came to be ruled by machine intelligences and blood-and-soil idiocies.

An exploration of appearances, deception and identity in the lush setting of 1960s Greece.

35 years after release, David Byrne’s satirical, patriotic, postmodern musical still feels like a raw and provocative commentary on everyday life.

It's painful to watch Zendaya and Washington give what may be career-best performances in such an unfocussed and confused film.

In many ways new ground for director Josephine Decker, Shirley is also unmistakably hers, exploring unspeakable horror and strained man-woman interactions which conjure spectres.

Hitchcock and Highsmith’s outstanding collaboration creates a perfect murder.

By Japanese director Sion Sono’s standards, this film-about-film is restrained. It’s also egalitarian, moving – and one of the best of 2020.

Garrett Bradley’s tender and emotional documentary explores the unthinkable loss of long-term incarceration in America’s racist prison system.

A superb alternative Christmas film, this crime drama-cum-black comedy is a contemporary fable that examines the nature of morality itself.

The giant divine moth, who would later share the screen with Godzilla, returns with a Blu-ray re-release of her first cinematic appearance in 1961.

The combination of cinematography and a hilariously expressive cast turns the whole silly drama into something altogether musical.

Even taken purely as fiction, the latest film by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is a mess of cognitive dissonance, a film profoundly at odds with itself.

Ben Wheatley’s new Netflix film might make you wonder where the company gets the audacity to continually raise its subscription price.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's exceptional screenwriting debut is ultimately a feel-good movie about the tension between the need for belonging and the search for the authentic self.

A serious, impressively committed and entirely wordless indie horror about humans being hunted and slaughtered by other animals.

Screened as part of Spirit of Independence micro-budget film festival, Like avoids the pitfalls of the ‘found footage’ genre to comment on social media, performance and human relationships.

A haunting story of the pursuit of individuality and personal truth that ultimately ends in madness.

A contemporary romance-in-reverse that meditates on the mystery of relationships.

Ron Howard’s adaptation explores the interface of our inner and outer worlds, and the capacity we have in creating reality from what we value most.