Reviews

The Great Escaper

The late Glenda Jackson, who passed away in June, concludes her storied career with a sensational performance in The Great Escaper. The veteran...

Oliver Parker

The Exorcist: Believer

After rebooting the Halloween franchise with a fresh trilogy, director David Gordon Green has decided to do the same with The Exorcist. This...

David Gordon Green

Flora and Son

Irish film director John Carney is back with another music-driven comedy-drama named Flora and Son. This Dublin-set film tells the story of Flora...

The Creator

After directing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, possibly the most critically acclaimed of that franchise’s new instalments, director Gareth...

Gareth Edwards

The Lesson

Richard E. Grant couldn’t be more perfectly cast as an esteemed author in Alice Troughton’s new noir thriller The Lesson. He plays...

Alex Troughton

Cassandro

Gael Garcia Bernal plays gay wrestler Cassandro in Roger Ross Williams’ feel-good biographical drama. The film, set in the early 1980s,...

El Conde

In real life, Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, died in 2006. Pablo Larrain’s new film El Conde, or The Count in English,...

A Haunting in Venice

After Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, Kenneth Branagh is back as Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice. The spooky murder...

Kenneth Branagh

Past Lives

One of the best films of 2023 has arrived. Celine Song’s Past Lives, which has received reviews since its debut at the Sundance Film...

Celine Song

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

When My Big Fat Greek Wedding launched in 2002, hardly anybody expected that it would still be going 21 years later. But it has defied the...

Nia Vardalos

Scrapper

Every year, we are treated to at least one breakout child star performance and this year’s comes from Lola Campbell in Scrapper. Charlotte...

Passages

Passages is a truly international affair; American director Ira Sachs hired German and English actors and a French actress to star in his latest...

Ira Sachs