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Film reviews
Melania Trump is a scowling void of pure nothingness in her new film
Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving, the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau
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Stellan Skarsgård powers the tender, Oscar-tipped Sentimental Value
The Scandi great plays a distant filmmaking father in Joachim Trier’s emotional follow-up to ‘The Worst Person in the World’
Stellan Skarsgård powers the tender, Oscar-tipped Sentimental Value
The Scandi great plays a distant filmmaking father in Joachim Trier’s emotional follow-up to ‘The Worst Person in the World’
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is a near-total failure
The eerie prescience of Stephen King’s dystopian source material – written in 1972 and set, of all years, in 2025 – has been wiped from this bland reboot, which also seems to know it’s miscast its leading man
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man is a near-total failure
The eerie prescience of Stephen King’s dystopian source material – written in 1972 and set, of all years, in 2025 – has been wiped from this bland reboot, which also seems to know it’s miscast its leading man
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Dwayne Johnson could be headed for Oscar with The Smashing Machine
Filmmaker Benny Safdie asks the star to be raw and vulnerable for the first time in his career – and it’s a sight to behold
Dwayne Johnson could be headed for Oscar with The Smashing Machine
Filmmaker Benny Safdie asks the star to be raw and vulnerable for the first time in his career – and it’s a sight to behold
Denzel Washington is surprisingly one-note in Spike Lee’s new thriller
The Oscar-winner’s latest collaboration with Lee – based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 masterpiece ‘High and Low’ – is short on emotional depth
Denzel Washington is surprisingly one-note in Spike Lee’s new thriller
The Oscar-winner’s latest collaboration with Lee – based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 masterpiece ‘High and Low’ – is short on emotional depth
James Gunn’s Superman will make you believe in comic book movies again
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult lead a movie that doesn’t just serve as a referendum for superhero films, but for the cinematic future of DC as a whole
James Gunn’s Superman will make you believe in comic book movies again
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult lead a movie that doesn’t just serve as a referendum for superhero films, but for the cinematic future of DC as a whole
