Tony Kaye’s documentary on his legendary battle with Hollywood is wildly engrossing
Tony Kaye’s documentary is a vivid portrait of a man so over his head that he’s become more than a little mad.…
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Disclosure Day is pure Spielberg humanism
Spectacular and radically sentimental in a cynical world Disclosure Day is everything Steven Spielberg represents as a storyteller.…
Leo Woodall earns his leading man credentials in Daniel Roher’s engrossing Tuner
The highly enjoyable and entertaining Tuner upends a lot of expectations and zigs where many other films would zag, keeping the momentum from sagging.…
Recluse is an unsettling and uneasy journey into the modern uncanny
A contemporary Gothic horror where the aspect of dread permeates both the house and the people who spend time there.…
Jaume Claret Muxart journeys along the Danube in the beautiful, beguiling and bewildering Strange River
A story without answers, choosing seductive visual composition and familial convergence over the trappings of a traditional coming-of-age narrative.…
The North is a beautiful decree for digital detoxification
Bart Schrijver’s film The North begins with an earnest proclamation: ‘The trail is best enjoyed without your phone. Please turn it off.’…
Sound of Falling is a confronting and complex exploration of inter-generational experience
Sound of Falling manages the impressive task of imitating the non-linear depiction of interconnected psyches, whilst maintaining enough storytelling muscle to avoid the pitfalls of leaving its audience with little reality to hold on to.…
Astonishing Grace: James J. Robinson on his stunning debut film First Light
It is a really personal story, because every single character within the film is like a part of myself that is kind of in constant argument with itself.…
The labyrinth of the everyday in Kane Parsons’ disquieting Backrooms
Backrooms is a triumph in its highly individual vision and the technical prowess involved to realise the horrible maze of anxiety.…
Star Wars returns to the big-screen with The Mandalorian and Grogu, an exercise in galactic-scale entropy
The Mandalorian and Grogu makes the biggest cardinal sin of all: scamming its viewership into believing they are making entertainment when these parts of Star Wars are nothing more than a piece of capital, packaged and designed to make more toys, plushies, and general merchandise.…
Agnieszka Holland on her search for Franz Kafka
Franz: Becoming Kafka drops breadcrumbs for the audience to follow to go on their own search for an author who shapeshifts in our understanding; and in adopting that openness and style, Holland has made a stunning literary biographical work.…
A Private Life is a delicate Parisian mystery that’s kind on the heart
In the cosiness of Paris in winter, red wine dinners, and old lovers in new trysts, it seems the pleasure of A Private Life is in the fantasy of bourgeois misadventures.…