Downton Abbey is fundamentally a drama that celebrates one class of people oppressing another
Gruesome without being scary, intricate without feeling involved, It Chapter Two is a textbook blockbuster sequel: more of the same, only worse
A sad account of living with someone with addiction and a deeply personal work that touches on something universal, there’s still something blank and theatrical about Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir
Irish writer and director Ivan Kavanagh makes a huge leap forward with his first big-budget period film Never Grow Old, a revisionist Western set on the forbidding American frontier in 1849
Tarantino’s ninth outing is his most emotionally mature yet. Saturated with his usual excesses and diversions, Hollywood is, at its core, a sad film about obsolescence, ageing and death
Director Sophie Hyde's 'Animals' is a disordered celebration of the enduring bonds of female friendship that feels like it’s trying too hard to capture a mood of hedonism
As with all of the Fast & Furious films, the plot synopsis could be communicated with the pictograms on the leaflet that accompanies a piece of flatpack furniture
There’s no shortage of never-before-seen footage in Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, but the film seems to lose interest in its central theme about half way through
The Lion King is a 'photo-realistic' remake of the 1994 classic that replaces gorgeous animation with pixel-perfect but less emotionally engaging digital renderings of the real animals of the Serengeti
Jim Jarmusch's 'The Dead Don't Die' feels frivolous and unfinished, a cobbled-together assembly of under-developed notions, borrowed tropes and cinephile references
Spider-Man: Far From Home is a riot of goofy comedy and dizzying special effects built around ideas of truth, illusion and faith
Would there be hip-hop or house music without the Beatles using the studio as an instrument? Would we have had Live Aid without the Concert for Bangladesh? Would the US Civil Rights movement have been delayed if they had agreed to play to segregated audiences? These are just some of the questions John Maguire asks Danny Boyle, director of a new film that imagines a world where the Fab Four never existed
A cross between the 1970s slasher films of Dario Argento and the celebrated 1980s BBC adaptations of MR James’ ghost stories, In Fabric takes mundane objects, things we shouldn’t be frightened of, and fetishises them until they become terrifying
The returning Toy Story veterans are joined by several new creative hands for a story that feels fresh and invigorating while remaining true to all the glories that have come before
While Asif Kapadia covers every aspect of Maradona’s life to some degree, the film focuses primarily on the gifted Argentinian’s time at the Italian club Napoli
