Here is another deadpan comedy of manners from the prolific Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo: unworldly, gentle and effortlessly minimalist as always, and it is his
Category: Films
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon review – heartfelt portrait of a generational talent
Alex Gibney’s docu-celebration of Paul Simon unfolds over an epic three-and-a-half hours, but he persuades you that this is exactly how much time was needed.
Terrifier 3 review – killer clown is tooled up for third helping of gleeful gorefest
Here is a film that opens with a self-contained prologue that gleefully sets its stall out, fair and square. The scene is a family home
Timestalker review – Alice Lowe’s anti-romcom is a darkly hilarious spin through history
The Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly – but couldn’t be sure if the butterfly wasn’t the one having the dream about him.
Buffalo Kids review – CGI old west adventure with a big, warm heart
This is the family-friendly animated story of Tom and Mary, a pair of parentless 19th-century mites making the journey from Ireland to California in search
Blitz review – Steve McQueen’s rousing wartime adventure is surprisingly old-fashioned
Steve McQueen finds the key of C major for this well made and unashamedly old-fashioned wartime adventure, heartfelt and rousing and – yes – a
‘I hope God gives me the strength to make more movies’: Scorsese addresses retirement rumours
Martin Scorsese has denied he is planning to retire, telling a press conference in Italy that he has “more films to make” after reports surfaced
Flopping at the box office, hated by the critics – could Joker: Folie à Deux possibly be any worse?
Name: Joker: Folie à Deux. Age: Released last week. A moving picture, right? Yes, the sequel to 2019’s Joker, Todd Phillips’s critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning take
Almodóvar in English, McQueen at war and Jolie on song: Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the London film festival
A Traveler’s Needs It’s one of the most intriguing director-star pairings in world cinema: Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo and French icon Isabelle Huppert. This is
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person review – ethical kills for teen bloodsucker
Imagine Beetlejuice-era Winona Ryder playing Amelie (dressed in goth black naturally), and you’ve got a pretty good impression of the heroine in this cool offbeat