Here is a mammoth 148-minute documentary about the Renaissance painter Raphael, which in its sheer length and detail is an impressive achievement in itself by
Category: Films
William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill review – captain’s log is short on detail
He has lived long and prospered. Now 93 years old (though looking like a slip of a lad of 70), William Shatner shares his wit
Parthenope review – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody
Paolo Sorrentino, for over 20 years one of the most vibrant and distinctive film-makers, is coming close to self-parody with this new film, which conceitedly
Was Cate Blanchett’s Cannes dress a pro-Palestinian protest – or an optical illusion?
For some, the message Cate Blanchett brought to the Cannes red carpet on Monday rang loud and clear. At first, her form-fitting, off-the-shoulder Jean Paul
In Flames review – Pakistani horror mines the patriarchy for terror and despair
Pakistan’s patriarchal society is a too credible source of horror in this promising feature debut from Canadian-Pakistani writer/director Zarrar Khan, whose gallery of violent, predatory
Trump movie The Apprentice: ‘I don’t think it is a movie he would dislike,’ says director
The protagonist of The Apprentice is a bully and a liar, a conman and a rapist. He rejects his sick brother, sexually assaults his doting
Slow review – intimate portrait of asexual romance unfolds at unhurried pace
A delicate love affair blooms in the new film from Lithuanian director Marija Kavtaradze, which explores attraction and intimacy with intelligence and compassion. It tells
Rumours review – close encounters for Cate Blanchett and the magnificent G7
Cate Blanchett has supplied the strangest moment of this year’s Cannes film festival; for Brits of a certain age, anyway. Her character reverently invokes the
The Boy in the Woods review – boys’ own tale of Holocaust fugitive forced to fend for himself
This sweet if somewhat sentiment-and-string-section-forward Canadian film tells the true story of Max (Jett Klyne, impressive), a Jewish boy aged 12 from Warsaw, trying to
The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist
The Trump campaign has come out swinging against The Apprentice after the film, which depicts the former president raping his first wife, shocked audiences at