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
Category: Films
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
Francis Ford Coppola: US politics is at ‘the point where we might lose our republic’
The US, whose founders tried to emulate the laws and governmental structures of the Roman republic, is headed for a similarly self-inflicted collapse, director Francis
Bird review – Andrea Arnold’s untamed Barry Keoghan tale is a curate’s egg
Andrea Arnold’s flawed, garrulous new movie is a chaotic social-realist adventure with big, chancy performances, grimly violent episodes, tragedy butting heads with comedy and physical
An Unfinished Film review – moving and mysterious movie about China’s Covid crisis
Out of agony and chaos, Chinese film-maker Lou Ye has created something mysterious, moving and even profound – a kind of multilayered docu-realist film, evidently
Slow: the Lithuanian asexual romcom that raises ‘a lot of questions’
They meet cute in a dance rehearsal studio. She’s a contemporary dancer teaching a class of deaf teenagers. He’s the sign language interpreter. When he
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review – Rungano Nyoni’s strange, intense tale of sexual abuse
Rungano Nyoni is the Zambian-Welsh film-maker who in 2017 had an arthouse smash with her debut, the witty and distinctive misogyny fable I Am Not
‘To escape Gaza is already an achievement. And then to be trans?’: the women defying national and gender boundaries
The Belle from Gaza premieres at the Cannes film festival on Friday – an achievement made the more remarkable as there was a point last
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes
‘My childhood! My mother! I want them back!” With this howl of anguish, young Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, sets the tone of vengeful rage