Mohammad Rasoulof is a fugitive Iranian director and dissident wanted by the police in his own country, where he has received a long prison sentence
Category: Films
The Beach Boys review – rather too sunny account of 60s pop legends’ story
Early on in this latest of Disney’s stream of blockbuster rock documentaries, there is a brief but telling moment. It is July 1976, the year
Valeria Golino: ‘I’m not a man-hater. I am a lover of men’
Valeria Golino rolls into her Cannes hotel late, trailing cigarette smoke and apologies. She hasn’t even had time to check in when a publicist steers
Atlas review – Jennifer Lopez learns to love AI in silly Netflix mockbuster
Memorial Day weekend has long been a vital, lucrative calendar date in Hollywood, a three-day stretch that’s birthed blockbusters such as Mission: Impossible, The Lost
All We Imagine As Light review – dreamlike and gentle modern Mumbai tale is a triumph
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
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