John Maguire |
4 days ago
Nora Fingscheidt’s German drama is a loud, dissonant assault on the senses
Nora Fingscheidt’s German drama is a loud, dissonant assault on the senses
Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots star in this dark comedy about a couple who find themselves unable to leave a perfect suburban home that they never wanted in the first place
Hirokazu Koreeda gets to the heart of a tense mother/daughter relationship in his first film made outside Japan
Chaotic and compelling, Bacurau is a film that resists easy classification
The actress gave a vivid performance as an emotionally damaged woman in The Virtues. Now she’s working with top-tier names such as Ridley Scott
A lesbian romance set in 18th-century France is by turns poignant and mesmerising
The British director swings a very blunt stick to the causes of global inequality in an off-target satire
Until recently, received wisdom was that cinema as we know it would be gobbled up by remakes, blockbusters and comic-book franchises. Then along came Netflix and a South Korean thriller and it’s all to play for again
Autumn de Wilde’s new adaptation of Jane Austen’s last novel is indulgent and sugary, but it’s also a lot of fun
Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s new film is as good as cinema gets this year
Clint Eastwood’s new movie looks back at the sad fate that befell a security guard during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
Jay Roach’s retelling of the #MeToo scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News never quite manages to catch fire
This latest version of the classic novel is bursting with life and acutely tender observations
John Maguire picks his ten best movies of 2019, and no prizes for guessing the film that came out on top
After half a century in the business, the actress has reached a career peak in her seventh decade
Australian writer and director Jennifer Kent has followed The Babadook with a story of sexual and racial violence in colonial Tasmania