REVIEWS//
While Winterbottom’s spiky satire doesn’t set the world on fire; Sciamma’s slow-burning romance smoulders with passion; and Pixar’s fraternal fantasy is a familiar but enchanting quest.
Category Archive: Curzon Release
REVIEW // ★★★☆☆
Holland’s disjointed biopic of the crusading journalist who uncovered Stalin’s cruel famines leaves you cold.
REVIEW // ★★★★★
Eggers churns his two actors with flotsam, fluids and fantasies in this masterfully nightmarish two-hander.
REVIEW // ★★★★☆
Awash in a sensual, arresting visual style, it’s sensitive performances that ultimately ground Shults’ turbulent film.
REVIEW // ★★★★☆
A powerful ensemble of teenagers are disposable lords of war in Landes’ visually striking but haunting thriller.
Despite its frozen heart, Pawlikowski’s period love-affair entices with cinematic elegance.
The fallen star remains spectrally elusive despite Macdonald’s probing, solemn approach.
Sauvaire’s rendering of Billy Moore’s prison memoir depicts a fight for survival and recovery with suffocating, unflinching intensity.
