Film Review – The Critic (2023)
There’s an inescapable irony in a critic reviewing a film called The Critic which has – yes, you’ve guessed it...
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Film Review – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Thirty-six years after the original, Tim Burton follows up his supernatural comedy with a nostalgic sequel that enhances the madcap...
Film Review – Firebrand (2023)
She was one of Henry VIII’s six wives, the one who survived – and, more significantly, outlived the King. Yet,...
Film Review – The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)
“Will you do good, or will you feel your heart with hate?” says one of the characters in The Count...
Film Review – Close To You (2023)
While it neither opened nor closed this year’s BFI Flare, Close To You is easily the festival’s hottest ticket. And...
Film Review – Kneecap (2024)
Not heard of Rich Peppiatt? Kneecap, will change that. As his Belfast-set docudrama explodes off the screen, it leaves an unforgettable...
Film Review – Blink Twice (2024)
Some directors allow you a few minutes’ grace to get into their film. Not Zoe Kravitz. In Blink Twice, her...
Film Review – Widow Clicquot (2023)
Last year opened up a new corner in bio-pics, moving them into corporate territory with Air, BlackBerry and Tetris telling...
2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival Review – Black Dog (2024)
2020 was a strange year for cinema. The box office was normal for about three months, then everything shut down...
Film Review – Alien:Romulus (2024)
Whether or not anybody can hear you scream in space, that tagline from Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) has gone down...
Film Review – Sky Peals (2023)
Moin Hussain’s debut feature, Sky Peals, is a masterful dive into the quiet despair of modern existence, wrapped in a...
Film Review – Babes (2024)
For over 20 years, Nora Ephron was the darling of romantic movies. The list of favourites trips off the...
Film Review – Borderlands (2024)
After a decidedly wobbly start, adaptations of video games have been on the up, both in terms of quality...
Film Review – Tuesday (2023)
It touches everybody – at a distance and more personally – yet death remains the last taboo, something we...