Film reviews

The Irishman is a funereal film. It's one of those melancholy retrospectives that a master of cinema might create as they approach their…

Beanpole is a film about the lasting, traumatic brutality of war in which not a single shot is fired and the most shocking scenes are…

Something like Joker was inevitable. With the superhero genre having long since conquered contemporary cinema, it was only a matter of time…

When Breaking Bad, among the most groundbreaking and beloved TV shows this side of The Sopranos, drew to a close in 2013, showrunner Vince…

Protagonist and antagonist Hella balances her environmental and personal lives.

The beauty of Leonard Cohen's words is superbly captured in the documentary.

James Gray looks to the stars with his genre flirtation, Ad Astra, about lonesome astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), who has believed his…

Bait is a film about a familiar and very contemporary conflict: the locals of a tiny Cornish fishing village being squeezed out by an…

From Joanna Hogg comes The Souvenir, a rich semi-autobiographical knockout that recounts the director's personal experience at film school…

The set-up of The Farewell could be that of a straightforward melodrama or dark comedy. Billi (Awkwafina), a struggling writer in New York,…

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is a perfectly fine 90-minute movie hidden inside an overlong mess that drags on for 159 minutes, which for…

Art-weird cinema tackles the zombie film in The Dead Don't Die, a shaggy, near-meaningless and characteristically deadpan half-parody from…

Having very much enjoyed Peter Strickland's previous offerings, Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy, I attended a screening of…

Part of this year's Alternative Realities programme, Sheffield Doc/Fest's mixed reality offering, Spectre by Bill Posters and Dr Daniel…

The afterimages of violence circulate through multiple worlds in Birds of Passage, the newest film from the Oscar-nominated Embrace of the…

When Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of Avengers: Endgame, pleaded fans not to spoil the plot of the movie coming up to its release, they…

The winner of the Audience Award at last year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, Minding The Gap is a stunning, heartfelt and candid chronicle of the…

If “Here’s Johnny!” is a catchphrase to strike a chill in the heart, then Greta’s equivalent could be “Mon Cherie”.

If you like your romances filtered through a Cronenberg lens and sprinkled with a dash of Scandi Noir, you are going to love…

If Beale Street Could Talk is a colourful film about fading. Both in its examination of race and love, it shows how hope and longing are…