Rourke recreates history with an arresting visual flair, but cannot exert the same grip on her overloaded story
The Front Runner, Jason Reitman’s new film about the scandal that engulfed American presidential candidate Gary Hart in the late 1980s, seems almost cute and quaint in comparison to the hellscape we currently inhabit
Titans of their cultural age, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s rich comedic legacy lives on in a new biopic which sees them brought back to life by Steve Coogan and John C Reilly. John Maguire meets the two stars in London
The Favourite is an extravagantly strange, sublimely bawdy film that can count three phenomenal performances from phenomenal actresses amongst its heaped achievements.
Cinema Mary Poppins Returns: Directed by Rob Marshall, Nationwide, G, Rating: *** Roma: Directed ...
For these ten films, and many others I’ve liked or loved this year, it’s impossible to separate them from the current times. As the world shifts in unpredictable ways, we turn to cinema for a way to process seismic events from a safe remove.
Painfully incoherent, disgustingly misogynistic and suffused with a radioactive self-loathing, The House That Jack Built is essentially cinematic clickbait
The Old Man & The Gun will be Robert Redford’s last performance on film and it is, fittingly and thankfully, a virtuoso swansong to an iconic career
The Hollywood dream factory might have been founded on visions of luxury and decadence, but film ...
In 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' any edgy vulnerability or awkward indecisiveness the character once possessed has been sanded down to better fit the contours of a big-bang superhero blockbuster
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
