The Limehouse Golem review: 'Something different'
The rather wonderful Bill Nighy may be many things but he is surely nobody’s idea of a Victorian-era Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of Jack the Ripper-style murders.
View ArticleWind River review: 'Chills to the bone'
There is no surer sign that summer is over, than the arrival of the first wintry thriller. For, as we all know by now, where snow lies deep and daylight is scarce, murder cannot be far away.
View ArticleVictoria & Abdul review: 'Funny and undemanding'
For the first 20 minutes, maybe half an hour, what is most notable about Victoria & Abdul is not how classy or well photographed it is but how broadly, even crudely, the comedy is being played.
View ArticleKingsman: The Golden Circle: Juvenile and implausible
Twenty years ago – or very nearly – Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn burst on to the feature- film-making scene with the now iconic thriller Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
View ArticleGoodbye Christopher Robin is one of the best films of 2017
Watching Goodbye Christopher Robin, two things strike you very quickly. The first is that the depiction of 100 Acre Wood is exactly as surely all Winnie-the-Pooh fans have always imagined.
View ArticleBlade Runner 2049 review: 'Really, really disappointing'
At the request of its director, Denis Villeneuve, I am supposed to tell you as little as possible about Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic.
View ArticleLoving Vincent looks stunning but lacks real colour
Like many, I’d been absolutely astonished by interviews given in advance of the release of Loving Vincent , explaining how the film’s remarkable animation came to be made.
View ArticleThor: Ragnarok: 'One of the best Marvel adaptations ever'
Thor: Ragnarok is the third of the stand-alone films to feature the Marvel Comics’ version of the long-haired, hammer-wielding Norse god of thunder.
View ArticleBreathe review: 'As joyous as it is moving'
For me – like millions of others – lifelong immunity to polio involved nothing more than crunching a rather funny-tasting sugar lump.
View ArticleMurder On The Orient Express review: 'A period delight'
David Suchet played Hercule Poirot for an extraordinary 24 years, delivering a performance that eventually felt so definitive it was difficult to imagine any other actor in the role.
View ArticlePaddington makes a 1st class return in this joyful sequel
Three years ago, Paddington – the first-ever live-action feature film about the small, duffel-coat-wearing bear from darkest Peru – was almost as much a relief as it was a delight.
View ArticleJustice League is a poor start to DC Comic's franchise
Remember how The Avengers assembled back in 2012? How Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk and Thor came together for the very first time?
View ArticleBattle Of The Sexes makes you ask if we've really moved on
When work began on Battle Of The Sexes, the 2016 US Primaries were just under way and there seemed every chance the film would come out in the same year America got its first woman President.
View ArticleWonder is 'one of the life-affirming treats of the year'
There will be many, surely, who look at the synopsis of Wonder and think exactly what I did: hmm, a film about a young boy with facial deformities growing up in New York?
View ArticleTwo wonderful performances lend Stronger wider appeal
We’ve already had one film this year about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and I wasn’t really in the mood for another, an uncharitable feeling that I blame on that first film, Patriots Day.
View ArticleThe Last Jedi Review: Carrie Fisher makes it unmissable
For those of us who were there at the beginning, Star Wars: The Force Awakens – released two years ago today – had a special significance.
View ArticleThe Greatest Showman review: Underwhelming
Awards season is a strange and mysterious time, as the imminent release of The Greatest Showman makes clear.
View ArticleMolly's Game proves too long, too wordy and too complex
A new movie year kicks off tomorrow with the release of Molly’s Game, a film that has already garnered a Golden Globe nomination for its flame-haired star, Jessica Chastain.
View ArticleAll The Money In The World review: An absorbing film
It’s perfectly possible, even quite likely, that we will see better examples of film-making this year than Ridley Scott’s All The Money In The World.
View ArticleDarkest Hour is 'a career-defining triumph for Oldman'
Gary Oldman is one of those actors you could walk past in the street and not recognise – he has a quiet ordinariness that allows him to disappear into the parts he plays.
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