Subscribe for just £1 per week Subscribe
Close
  • Coffee House
  • Magazine
  • Writers
  • Books & Arts
  • Podcasts
  • Spectator Schools
  • Subscribe
Subscribe for just £1 per week

Deborah Ross

Have they got news for you: Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham in The Post

You just can’t argue against Hanks and Streep: The Post reviewed

Deborah Ross 20 January 2018 9:00 am

Steven Spielberg’s The Post, which dramatizes the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, doesn’t exactly push at…

Fighting talk: Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Three Billboards is a hoot and a blast, which I never thought I’d say about a rape movie

Deborah Ross 13 January 2018 9:00 am

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

Deborah Ross 6 January 2018 9:00 am

Brad’s Status is a midlife crisis film starring Ben Stiller as a nearly 50-year-old man whose status anxiety is through…

Bang her up! Jessica Chastain as Molly Bloom in Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game

If this is Aaron Sorkin’s riposte to those who criticise his portrayal of women, God help us

Deborah Ross 16 December 2017 9:00 am

Molly’s Game marks the directorial debut of Hollywood’s most celebrated screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, and is based on his adaptation of…

About a boy: Ruben Niborski as Rievan in Menashe

My favourite frum film of the year – thus far: Menashe reviewed

Deborah Ross 9 December 2017 9:00 am

Menashe is a drama set amid Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Hasidic community. It is performed entirely in the Yiddish language. It is…

Mix and match: Emma Stone as Billie Jean King and Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes

It will amply satisfy all your comeuppance needs: Battle of the Sexes reviewed

Deborah Ross 25 November 2017 9:00 am

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

Deborah Ross 18 November 2017 9:00 am

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

Deborah Ross 11 November 2017 9:00 am

The Florida Project is a drama set in one of those cheap American motels occupied by poor people who would…

Steve Buscemi (Khrushchev), Michael Palin (Molotov) and Paul Whitehouse (Mikoyan) in The Death of Stalin

Not quite as funny as I’d hoped: Death of Stalin reviewed

Deborah Ross 21 October 2017 9:00 am

Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin is nearly two hours of men in bad suits bickering, but if you have…

Guess who’s coming to dinner: Timothy Spall (Bill), Cillian Murphy (Tom), Emily Mortimer (Jinny) and Patricia Clarkson (April) in Sally Potter’s The Party

Half the length of Blade Runner 2049 and 676 times as entertaining: The Party reviewed

Deborah Ross 14 October 2017 9:00 am

Sally Potter’s The Party, which unfolds in real time during a politician’s soirée to celebrate her promotion, is just 71…

Ryan Gosling as K and Sylvia Hoeks as Wallace’s sidekick Luv in Blade Runner 2049

Chances are you will wish you were dead: Blade Runner 2049 reviewed

Deborah Ross 7 October 2017 9:00 am

Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner first came out in cinemas 35 years ago, which I was going to say probably…

The rivals: Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe and Sverrir Gudnason as Bjorn Borg in Borg vs McEnroe

It gets us from A to B but doesn’t dazzle: Borg vs McEnroe reviewed

Deborah Ross 23 September 2017 9:00 am

Borg vs McEnroe is a dramatised account of one of the greatest tennis rivalries of all time — between Bjorn…

Mad house: Jennifer Lawrence as Mother

Is Darren Aronofsky taking the piss? Mother! reviewed

Deborah Ross 16 September 2017 9:00 am

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

Deborah Ross 9 September 2017 9:00 am

The starting point for Taylor Sheridan’s crime-thriller Wind River is explicitly stated at the end when the following words come…

Girl, interrupted: Rooney Mara as Una

Difficult and disturbing: Una reviewed

Deborah Ross 2 September 2017 9:00 am

Una is a psychological drama about a woman who was abused by a man when she was 12, and who…

Going platinum: Daniel Craig as Joe Bang in Logan Lucky

You have to suspend not just disbelief but also cognitive faculties: Logan Lucky reviewed

Deborah Ross 26 August 2017 9:00 am

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?

Deborah Ross 5 August 2017 9:00 am

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

Deborah Ross 29 July 2017 9:00 am

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

Deborah Ross 22 July 2017 9:00 am

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has already been described as ‘a masterpiece’ and ‘a glorious, breathtakingly vivid triumph’, but we need to…

Ladies first: Nicole Kidman as Miss Martha in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled

A pulpy, misogynistic B-movie refashioned into an explosive feminist revenge drama: The Beguiled reviewed

Deborah Ross 15 July 2017 9:00 am

Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled is set during the American Civil War and is about a wounded Union solider, Corporal John…

If you go down to the woods: Kelvin Harrison Jnr as Travis in It Comes at Night

How can anyone can say It Comes at Night isn’t full of the usual horror clichés

Deborah Ross 8 July 2017 9:00 am

It Comes at Night is a horror film and I can’t say horror is my favourite genre. In fact, as…

Cut to the chase: Ansel Elgort as Baby in Baby Driver

The blaring pop music does not make Baby Driver good

Deborah Ross 1 July 2017 9:00 am

Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver is an action, heist, car-chase film that is said to reinvent the action, heist, car-chase film.…

Diane Keaton as Emily and Brendon Gleeson as Donald in Hampstead

This ‘love letter’ to Hampstead should have been scrunched up and thrown in the bin

Deborah Ross 24 June 2017 9:00 am

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

Deborah Ross 10 June 2017 9:00 am

My Cousin Rachel is an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s mystery-romance and, even though it stars the forever wonderful Rachel…

A ragbag of pointless subplots: Geoffrey Rush and Javier Bardem in Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge

The new Pirates of the Caribbean is so insultingly lazy it’s a wonder anyone puts up with it

Deborah Ross 27 May 2017 9:00 am

Oh, Pirates of the Caribbean, I have given you every chance down the years. Every chance. I am always hopeful.…

1 2 3 4 5 … 20 »

Follow us

Follow us on Twitter @spectator Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow our Podcast

Editor’s Choice

Ethnic cleansing and the horrors of Buczacz

I recycle – then lie to myself that I’m saving the planet

Culinary cold war at the White House

Padel power! But will this crazy new sport ever be a hit?

Cartoons…

Blimey, how much plastic have you been ingesting?
Blimey, how much plastic have you been ingesting?
‘I prefer the Daily Mail…’
‘I prefer the Daily Mail…’
‘I’m afraid we missed our target to see you within four hours.’
‘I’m afraid we missed our target to see you within four hours.’
‘He has a 25-year plan to reform.’
‘He has a 25-year plan to reform.’
‘I’ll certainly pass on your concerns about plastic packaging, Sir.’
‘I’ll certainly pass on your concerns about plastic packaging, Sir.’
‘He’s one of the populist kids.’
‘He’s one of the populist kids.’
‘Oh gosh, they’re going to let us go.’
‘Oh gosh, they’re going to let us go.’
Click here to find out more about subscribing to The Spectator’s free podcasts

Latest from Spectator Life

  • Firewood is more than a middle-class accessory
    Stephen McGrath
  • Recipe: Marmalade Steam Pudding
    Olivia Potts
  • Winter notebook: sailing the English Channel
    Horatio Clare
  • Forget London Fashion Week, head to the galleries for inspiration
    Flora Gill
  • Alter egos: from Bowie and Beyoncé to Marcel Duchamp
    Alice Dunn
  • How to write a love letter
    Jodi Ann Bickley

Follow us on Twitter @spectator Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow our Podcast
  • About
    • Contact Us
    • FAQs
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Jobs and Vacancies
  • More from The Spectator
    • The Spectator Australia
    • Apollo Magazine
    • The Spectator Shop
  • Advertising
    • Classifieds
  • Subscribe
    • Club
    • Email Newsletters
The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP
+44 (0)3303 330 050
All articles and content Copyright © 2017 The Spectator (1828) Ltd | All rights reserved
Site designed and built by interconnect/it
Close
  • Coffee House
  • Magazine
  • Writers
  • Books & Arts
  • Podcasts
  • Spectator Schools
  • Subscribe