Bertrand Blier, the French film director with a long history of provocative offerings including Les Valseuses (Going Places), Tenue de Soirée (Evening Dress) and Trop
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‘The hair, the voice, the casual cruelty – they nailed it!’ Bob Dylan experts rate A Complete Unknown
‘They got his green polka-dot blouse right’ Richard Williams, biographer If you’re the sort of Bob Dylan fan who knows stuff like the fate of
Vomiting! Fainting! Heart attacks! How dangerous can it be to watch a movie?
Every new Mission: Impossible film comes with a task that is, well, quite difficult. This is a film franchise propelled by its set pieces, and
Up the River With Acid review – intimate, abstract portrait of a father’s dementia
Horst is an ageing academic who has lived a full life, enriched by learning, teaching and love; now his son, film-maker Harald Hutter, has decided
Into the Deep review – Richard Dreyfuss brings the meaning to smugglers v sharks thriller
This pulpy yet weirdly woo-woo nautical thriller sets good-guy treasure hunters on a collision course with drug smugglers (bad guys) and great white sharks (morally
The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground
The use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used
Oscar buzz and genre snubs: will the Academy finally give sci-fi, fantasy and horror their due?
Ah, the Oscars. That perennial exercise in Hollywood patting itself on the back with all the subtlety of a fireworks display, while the rest of
Dead Before They Wake review – brutal grooming-gang thriller marries mawkishness and bloodlust
Here is a vigilante thriller co-directed, written by and starring prolific low-budget Scottish film-maker Nathan Shepka, which has a kind of grim integrity despite the
Sunray: Fallen Soldier review – staple guns pressed into service in brutal payback thriller
This is a boorish, blokey film, the cinematic equivalent of a man sitting on the tube with his legs spread wide apart. It’s a violent
‘An unmitigated joy’: why Married to the Mob is my feelgood movie
There’s no more perfect song to open a movie than Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano in Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob. It’s a delightful nonsense