Film Review: Cold War (2018)
Cold War is about damaged people in a damaged country in a damaged world. Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski’s monochrome follow up, and in some…
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Film Review: Bumblebee (2018)
Ever since Transformers arrived on cinema screens in 2007 the series has been the great example of the disconnect between critics and ticket buying…
Film Review: Peppermint (2018)
Every moment in culture is reflected in the art it produces. In a world changing as swiftly and as fundamentally as the one we…
Film Review: Lean on Pete (2017)
Yorkshireman Andrew Haigh wouldn’t be the obvious person to adapt a novel like Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin, portraying the trials of a…
Film Review: Wolfman’s Got Nards (2018)
In the current moment of popular culture there is no force more powerful than 1980s nostalgia. This isn’t too surprising, because as a general…
Film Review: Donbass (2018)
Ukrainian film and documentary maker Sergei Loznitsa blends his talent for fact and fiction in his latest work. Donbass, taking its name from the…
Film Review: Reaching Distance (2018)
You’re not supposed to start your film career with mind-bending psychological thrillers that warp time, space, reality and memory into a thematically-dense narrative. But…
Film Review: A Simple Favour (2018)
Based on the book of the same name by Darcey Bell, A Simple Favour sees Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick), a mummy blogger, trying to…
Film Review: Beast (2017)
When a new writer/director’s first feature film is a team up with a largely unknown leading lady and the results are phenomenal, we know…
Film Review: Boys Cry (2018)
Organised crime was never on the radar for young lads Mirko (Matteo Olivetti) and Manolo (Andrea Carpenzano). Down and out in suburban Rome, they’re…