There is a freshness and emotional clarity in Payal Kapadia’s Cannes competition selection, an enriching humanity and gentleness which coexist with fervent, languorous eroticism and
Category: Films
Beating Hearts review – operatic French gangster film suffers from bloat
Gilles Lelouche’s new film is a giant operatic crime drama of star-crossed lovers and hurt feelings; it’s very French, but aiming for some blue-collar Springsteen
Hit Man review – Richard Linklater’s thoroughly entertaining fake-killer caper
For this thoroughly entertaining comedy thriller, Richard Linklater finds the distinctive and weirdly uncomplicated register of sunny geniality that he so often gives us –
Grand Tour review – engaged couple’s sweet, strange colonial era hide-and-seek
Once again, Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes delivers a film in which the most complex sophistication coexists with innocence and charm. It is at once very
Raphael: A Portrait review – lengthy but illuminating study of Renaissance master
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
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