Film
Anemone review - searching for Daniel Day-LewisFriday, 07 November 2025
Given that the film industry is a fairly vain business, it follows that every movie is to some extent a vanity project. So it seems churlish to describe this new Daniel Day-Lewis picture, which he co-wrote with his son, Ronan, for Ronan to... Read more... |
Train Dreams review - one man's odyssey into the American CenturyThursday, 06 November 2025
What defines a life? Money and success? Happiness? Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams employs a narrator, much as Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven did, who fields big questions like those while drawing the audience in. Bentley’s voice is an omniscient one... Read more... |
Palestine 36 review - memories of a nationWednesday, 05 November 2025
“Rebellion begins with a breath,” an opening aphorism declares in this first film recounting Palestine’s 1936-39 Arab Revolt, long historically supplanted by Israel’s seismic 1948 founding.The Gaza War meant director Annemarie Jacir filmed under... Read more... |
Relay review - the method manWednesday, 05 November 2025
Ash (Riz Ahmed) is one of cinema’s capable men, the kind of monastically devoted pro made to be a hitman or getaway driver. David Fincher’s The Killer parodied the type with Michael Fassbender’s system-driven assassin, and from The Day of the Jackal... Read more... |
Die My Love review - good lovin' gone badWednesday, 05 November 2025
Directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the book by Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love is an unsettling dive into the disturbed psyche of Grace, played with mercurial brilliance by Jennifer Lawrence. Grace is a new mother still struggling to get... Read more... |
Bugonia review - Yorgos Lanthimos on aliens, bees and conspiracy theoriesFriday, 31 October 2025
“How can you tell she’s an alien?” asks Don (Aidan Delbis, an impressive neuro-divergent actor) of his cousin Teddy (the excellent Jesse Plemons).Yurgos Lanthimos’s gripping black comedy Bugonia (nothing to do with begonias, by the way, but a Greek... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: director Kelly Reichardt on 'The Mastermind' and reliving the 1970sWednesday, 29 October 2025
Kelly Reichardt has a thing about losers. You often see them in her films. It's the failure of American individualism that concerns her.Even when she tells stories of her country's history, like in the anti-western Meek's Cutoff (2010) or the 2019... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Wendy and LucyTuesday, 28 October 2025
Wendy and Lucy is a road movie with a protagonist who’s unable to move on, and a study of friendship where one half of the partnership is mostly absent from the screen. Originally released during the 2008 financial crisis, Kelly Reichardt’s third... Read more... |
The Mastermind review - another slim but nourishing slice of Americana from Kelly ReichardtFriday, 24 October 2025
The clatter of cool jazz on the soundtrack announces writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s latest project, the kind of score that back in the day would have announced a film by a maverick new talent. The film, her ninth, has been given a faded and... Read more... |
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere review - the story of the Boss who isn't boss of his own headFriday, 24 October 2025
There’s something about hauntingly performed songs written in the first person that can draw us in like nothing else. As songs from Robert Johnson to Leonard Cohen remind us, they can take us into the mental recesses of their subjects – for... Read more... |
The Perfect Neighbor, Netflix review - Florida found-footage documentary is a harrowing watchTuesday, 21 October 2025
Another day, another shooting: this is Florida, USA, where the "Stand Your Ground" self-defence law allows people to use lethal force when they perceive a threat to their lives. The idea may be shocking to Britons, but such laws have become... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Le Quai des BrumesTuesday, 21 October 2025
From its opening scene, Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows,1938) feels like a reverie, a period of sustained waiting, during which the characters stand at a threshold knowing that a tragedy will occur if they cross it.As mist settles over a highway... Read more... |
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