If, like me, you come away from Grindelwald thinking there is far too much to it, that exhaustion will not be soothed by news that no fewer than three further sequels await us
Those expecting the familiar cacophonous rhythms of studio cops-and-robbers cinema will be electrified by how McQueen absorbs political, racial and gender issues into his supercharged story
There’s something dusty and clumsy about Mike Leigh's Peterloo that saps the film of its zeal and urgency; a fogginess that settles early and never lifts.
Ross Whitaker’s knockout documentary portrait Katie follows the Bray boxer from her disastrous campaign at the Rio 2016 Olympics through to her decision to turn professional the following year
A tendency to undercut the tension with goofy jokes and comic asides means this sequel does not have the dreadful elegance of the original
First conceived of two years ago and filmed last year, Rosie might as well be broadcast live. Nothing has changed in the interim for those 10,000 people (4,000 of them children) who are without a home in Ireland
A Star Is Born is more than just a cash-grabbing remake or a rebooted throwback: it’s a passionate reminder of the grand ambition that movies are all about
Pryce is undeniably charismatic and entertainingly conceited, but 'The Wife' belongs to Close. She is as subtle and controlled here as she has ever been
The Little Stranger is a captivating Gothic mystery adapted from Sarah Waters’s acclaimed novel as a claustrophobic haunted house movie with a devious shudder in every scene
Crazy Rich Asians is the kind of movie that seems even worse in retrospect because, when you replay it in your mind, you realise the easy route it takes through a potentially complicated story
Black 47 doesn’t exploit the tragedy of the famine by relegating it to the background of a violent Western, but frames that horror in a way that resonates with the form in which it is being expressed.
Cold War (filmed once again in lustrous black and white) sets a decade-spanning saga of on again, off again love against the momentous backdrop of a bleak era in recent Polish history, the post-World War II absorption by the USSR
BlacKkKlansman is a funny, furious telling of the true story of black police detective Ron Stallworth and his partner Flip Zimmerman investigating the local chapter of the KKK in Colorado Springs in the early 1970s
If the first Equalizer existed only to rapidly progress our unstoppable Good Samaritan though a hierarchy of disposable bad guys on his way to a grandstanding showdown, this more protracted edition is easily distracted and ludicrously contrived.
Under The Tree is a carefully delineated and brutally effective parable for our increasingly hostile and uncivil times
