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Clarisse Loughrey
Clarisse Loughrey is the chief film critic for The Independent. She also co-hosts The Big Screen Book Club and Fade to Black podcasts.
The 15 best films of 2025, from Mickey 17 to One Battle After Another
This was a cinematic year of vampires, clones, restless mothers, maybe-ETs and Leonardo DiCaprio struggling to remember complex revolutionary passwords. Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very best
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How Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi made the horror movie of the year
The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘The Shape of Water’ spent decades attempting to bring Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to the screen. As it arrives on Netflix, he, as well as his stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, speak to Clarisse Loughrey about its long gestation, its surprise easter eggs, and its very Freudian subtext
How Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi made the horror movie of the year
The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘The Shape of Water’ spent decades attempting to bring Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to the screen. As it arrives on Netflix, he, as well as his stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, speak to Clarisse Loughrey about its long gestation, its surprise easter eggs, and its very Freudian subtext
One Battle After Another is a ferocious masterpiece
Paul Thomas Anderson has directed a swaggering, funny and timely action epic, where momentum never lets up and supporting actors Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor steal the show
One Battle After Another is a ferocious masterpiece
Paul Thomas Anderson has directed a swaggering, funny and timely action epic, where momentum never lets up and supporting actors Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor steal the show
Highly anticipated horror movie Weapons has misled its audience
Julia Garner and Josh Brolin lead Zach Cregger’s buzzy follow-up to his hit ‘Barbarian’ – but audiences have been slightly misled by its atmospheric trailers
Highly anticipated horror movie Weapons has misled its audience
Julia Garner and Josh Brolin lead Zach Cregger’s buzzy follow-up to his hit ‘Barbarian’ – but audiences have been slightly misled by its atmospheric trailers
Elio is familiar territory for Pixar – but still plenty of fun
If there are borrowed images in this tale of an 11-year-old boy transported to space, there’s a playfulness to how they’re deployed
Elio is familiar territory for Pixar – but still plenty of fun
If there are borrowed images in this tale of an 11-year-old boy transported to space, there’s a playfulness to how they’re deployed
