Film review: The Irishman
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John Maguire
5 days ago
Scorsese’s late-career masterstroke
Dull rendering ruins Shining sequel
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John Maguire
1 week ago
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
Film review - Terminator: Dark Fate
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John Maguire
2 weeks ago
Back to basics as Terminator reboots
Film reviews: Non Fiction and Dark Lies the Island
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John Maguire
3 weeks ago
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
Film review: A bump along the way
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John Maguire
1 month ago
Gallagher blooms in charming Derry tale
Joker: A masterclass in darkness
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John Maguire
1 month ago
Joaquin Phoenix delivers a compelling performance in Joker, writes John Maguire
Film: Tartt’s objet d’art loses its literary lustre
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John Maguire
1 month ago
John Maguire reviews the latest silver screen releases
Star turn from Pitt in a spacey odyssey
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John Maguire
1 month ago
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
John Maguire on Film
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John Maguire
2 months ago
Downton Abbey is fundamentally a drama that celebrates one class of people oppressing another
Film: Second chapter is second-rate
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John Maguire
2 months ago
Gruesome without being scary, intricate without feeling involved, It Chapter Two is a textbook blockbuster sequel: more of the same, only worse
John Maguire on Film
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John Maguire
2 months ago
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
A Wild West tale told searingly well
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John Maguire
2 months ago
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
Even Tarantino can't redirect history
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John Maguire
2 months ago
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
John Maguire on Film
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John Maguire
3 months ago
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
Fast, furious... and flaccid and fatuous
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John Maguire
3 months ago
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