REVIEW // ★★★☆☆
King’s propulsive period thriller doesn’t give enough power to its central historical figures.
Category Archive: General Release
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Final reviews for 2020: ‘MONSOON’; ‘I AM GRETA’; ‘PIXIE’ and ‘FALLING’.
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Fitting films for the bleak end of 2020: ‘LES MISERABLES’; ‘MOFFIE’; ‘KAJILLIONAIRE’; and ‘THE PAINTED BIRD’.
REVIEW // ★★☆☆☆
A bold concept drives backwards over any meaningful complexity or characterisation in Nolan’s detached, confounding blockbuster.
REVIEW // ★★★★★
The director’s latest work stings repeatedly with severe critique and sheer comedy.
REVIEW // ★★★★☆
The satirist’s direction and superbly cast ensemble creates a love-letter to the language and lives in Dickens’ work.
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.
