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Film reviews
Brad Pitt vanity project F1 is just a bad version of Top Gun: Maverick
This Lewis Hamilton-produced sports film is a soulless endeavour, and far too infatuated with the near-mythical bravado of Pitt’s racing veteran to really work
Denzel Washington is surprisingly one-note in Spike Lee’s new film
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 film
The Oscar-winner’s latest collaboration with Lee – based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 masterpiece ‘High and Low’ – is short on emotional depth
Michael B Jordan’s vampire film Sinners deserves to be a sensation
‘Black Panther’ filmmaker Ryan Coogler directs Jordan in two roles in this inventive period thriller
Michael B Jordan’s vampire film Sinners deserves to be a sensation
‘Black Panther’ filmmaker Ryan Coogler directs Jordan in two roles in this inventive period thriller
Mickey 17 is an absurdist, anti-capitalist, Trump-mocking masterpiece
Bong Joon-ho, the Oscar winner behind ‘Parasite’, somehow convinced Warner Bros to finance a costly sci-fi epic about the plight of the working class – and led by an actor doing one of his trademark silly voices
Mickey 17 is an absurdist, anti-capitalist, Trump-mocking masterpiece
Bong Joon-ho, the Oscar winner behind ‘Parasite’, somehow convinced Warner Bros to finance a costly sci-fi epic about the plight of the working class – and led by an actor doing one of his trademark silly voices
Tom Hanks’s new film Here is a stilted, manipulative disaster
Bold in theory but a struggle to sit through in practice, Robert Zemeckis’s experimental drama slingshots through time from a single perspective in the corner of a room
Tom Hanks’s new film Here is a stilted, manipulative disaster
Bold in theory but a struggle to sit through in practice, Robert Zemeckis’s experimental drama slingshots through time from a single perspective in the corner of a room
Ralph Fiennes’s Oscar-tipped Conclave needed more than shock and awe
Ralph Fiennes is a vaping cardinal tasked with electing a new pope, in a film that plays as a conspiracy thriller – if only it interrogated its own ideas, though
Ralph Fiennes’s Oscar-tipped Conclave needed more than shock and awe
Ralph Fiennes is a vaping cardinal tasked with electing a new pope, in a film that plays as a conspiracy thriller – if only it interrogated its own ideas, though
