You just can’t argue against Hanks and Streep: The Post reviewed
Steven Spielberg’s The Post, which dramatizes the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, doesn’t exactly push at…
Three Billboards is a hoot and a blast, which I never thought I’d say about a rape movie
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri does, indeed, feature three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. They have been placed at the roadside…
Indulgent rather than stinging satire: Brad’s Status reviewed
Brad’s Status is a midlife crisis film starring Ben Stiller as a nearly 50-year-old man whose status anxiety is through…
If this is Aaron Sorkin’s riposte to those who criticise his portrayal of women, God help us
Molly’s Game marks the directorial debut of Hollywood’s most celebrated screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, and is based on his adaptation of…
My favourite frum film of the year – thus far: Menashe reviewed
Menashe is a drama set amid Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Hasidic community. It is performed entirely in the Yiddish language. It is…
It will amply satisfy all your comeuppance needs: Battle of the Sexes reviewed
Battle of the Sexes recreates the famed, culture-changing 1973 tennis match between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs, a self-proclaimed chauvinist, and 29-year-old…
If Annette Bening isn't Oscar-nominated, I'll eat my hat and also yours
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool is plainly wonderful, and stars Annette Bening, who is plainly wonderful, as Gloria Grahame,…
The Florida Project never sanctifies or demonises and is absorbing throughout
The Florida Project is a drama set in one of those cheap American motels occupied by poor people who would…
Not quite as funny as I’d hoped: Death of Stalin reviewed
Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin is nearly two hours of men in bad suits bickering, but if you have…
Half the length of Blade Runner 2049 and 676 times as entertaining: The Party reviewed
Sally Potter’s The Party, which unfolds in real time during a politician’s soirée to celebrate her promotion, is just 71…
Chances are you will wish you were dead: Blade Runner 2049 reviewed
Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner first came out in cinemas 35 years ago, which I was going to say probably…
It gets us from A to B but doesn’t dazzle: Borg vs McEnroe reviewed
Borg vs McEnroe is a dramatised account of one of the greatest tennis rivalries of all time — between Bjorn…
Is Darren Aronofsky taking the piss? Mother! reviewed
The film-maker Darren Aronofsky says he wrote Mother! in five days as if in a ‘fever dream’ and, as a…
Cheaply mainstream and exploitative: Wind River reviewed
The starting point for Taylor Sheridan’s crime-thriller Wind River is explicitly stated at the end when the following words come…
Difficult and disturbing: Una reviewed
Una is a psychological drama about a woman who was abused by a man when she was 12, and who…
You have to suspend not just disbelief but also cognitive faculties: Logan Lucky reviewed
Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky is a heist caper that, to be fair, does what it says on the can. There…
Why has this folk artist’s disability been prettified for the big screen?
Maudie is a biopic of the folk artist Maud Lewis (1903–70) who is, apparently, beloved in Canada, and while Sally…
Too long, iffy end and at times racist: The Big Sick reviewed
The Big Sick is a rom-com that’s smarter than most rom-coms, which isn’t saying much, admittedly. It stars a Muslim…
However brave it is, Dunkirk lacks an emotional core
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has already been described as ‘a masterpiece’ and ‘a glorious, breathtakingly vivid triumph’, but we need to…
A pulpy, misogynistic B-movie refashioned into an explosive feminist revenge drama: The Beguiled reviewed
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled is set during the American Civil War and is about a wounded Union solider, Corporal John…
How can anyone can say It Comes at Night isn’t full of the usual horror clichés
It Comes at Night is a horror film and I can’t say horror is my favourite genre. In fact, as…
The blaring pop music does not make Baby Driver good
Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver is an action, heist, car-chase film that is said to reinvent the action, heist, car-chase film.…
This ‘love letter’ to Hampstead should have been scrunched up and thrown in the bin
Oh, Hampstead, what did you do to deserve Hampstead? Bet you wish the film-makers had pressed on down Fitzjohn’s Avenue…
Insufficiently dark, twisted or tense – but the bonnets are lovely: My Cousin Rachel reviewed
My Cousin Rachel is an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s mystery-romance and, even though it stars the forever wonderful Rachel…
The new Pirates of the Caribbean is so insultingly lazy it’s a wonder anyone puts up with it
Oh, Pirates of the Caribbean, I have given you every chance down the years. Every chance. I am always hopeful.…
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