Jay Roach’s retelling of the #MeToo scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News never quite manages to catch fire

Reviewed: 1917 and Uncut Gems

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

The former child star is proving that he is a talented actor and writer

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

No happy ever after to this love story

Scorsese’s late-career masterstroke

For a film about the invasive influence of the past on the present, there’s too much of the old on display in Doctor Sleep: sets built from Kubrick’s original designs, recycled music cues and props, characters and entire scenes painstakingly reconstructed. It’s not so much a homage as an admission of defeat

Back to basics as Terminator reboots

Non Fiction is the kind of film where you’re never more than a few minutes from a scene in a bustling bistro and everybody, eventually, ends up in bed with everyone else

Gallagher blooms in charming Derry tale

Joaquin Phoenix delivers a compelling performance in Joker, writes John Maguire

John Maguire reviews the latest silver screen releases

Ostensibly a near-future sci-fi about humanity’s search for advanced extra-terrestrial life beyond the solar system, Ad Astra is really about the relationships between fathers and sons

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