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: film
REVIEW // ★★★★★
The director’s latest work stings repeatedly with severe critique and sheer comedy.
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 // ★★★★☆
The satirist’s direction and superbly cast ensemble creates a love-letter to the language and lives in Dickens’ work.
REVIEW // ★★★★☆
Awash in a sensual, arresting visual style, it’s sensitive performances that ultimately ground Shults’ turbulent film.
REVIEW // ★★★★★
Loach delivers an uncompromising, humane exploration of the precarity and pain caused by today’s ‘gig economy’.
REVIEW // ★★★★☆
The director’s First World War action-drama drags us right into the mud, blood and despair with unflinching force.
