After three saddle-sore hours, Kevin Costner’s handsome-looking but oddly listless new western doesn’t get much done in the way of satisfying storytelling. Admittedly, this is
Category: Films
German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors
Is Britain leading the way in protecting young people and children from the potential traumas of working on a film set, or has it all
The Balconettes review – neighbours finding trouble in invitation to hot guy’s flat
Here to prove that “actor project” movies are always the ones with the dodgiest acting is the otherwise estimable French star Noémie Merlant who presents
George Miller: ‘Where do I keep my Oscar? I swear, I don’t know’
What is the best thing about being a twin? The shared experience. We spent the first 20 years of our lives together every day. We
Emilia Perez review – Jacques Audiard’s gangster trans musical barrels along in style
Anglo-progressives and US liberals might worry about whether or not certain stories are “theirs to tell”. But that’s not a scruple that worries French auteur
Sex, rape, cannibals: what Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things
Joe Alwyn, the British star of one of the most disturbing films to compete at the Cannes festival this year, has given his verdict on
The Surfer review – beach bum Nic Cage surfs a high tide of toxic masculinity
Here is a gloriously demented B-movie thriller about a middle-aged man who wants to ride a big wave and the grinning local bullies who regard
Oh, Canada review – Paul Schrader looks north as Richard Gere’s draft dodger reveals all
Muddled, anticlimactic and often diffidently performed, this oddly passionless new movie from Paul Schrader is a disappointment. It is based on the novel Foregone by
Kinds of Kindness review – sex, death and Emma Stone in Lanthimos’s disturbing triptych
Perhaps it’s just the one kind of unkindness: the same recurring kind of selfishness, delusion and despair. Yorgos Lanthimos’s unnerving and amusing new film arrives
Three Kilometres to the End of the World review – brutal self-denial in deepest Romania
Here is a self-laceratingly painful tale of repression and denial in a remote Romanian village in the Danube delta, directed by Emanuel Parvu. It’s in