FILM REVIEWS

Like all ironclad classics of the 7th art Groundhog Day is a richly rewarding pleasure to watch over and over and over again. Watching...

No movie in history highlights the collaborative nature of this artform more, as both cast and crew show boundless ambition … and pull it...

The story and setting of The Piano might be harsh and unforgiving but this movie will fill your heart and enrich your soul. For some...

Has there ever been a movie that combined uproarious laughter with as much artistry as Young Frankenstein? Probably not. Mel Brooks'...

You come for the twists but you stay for the exquisitely drawn characters and Bong Joon-ho’s directing masterclass in a movie for the...

Anyone who says they don’t make touching movie dramas like they used to should check out this movie filled with universal emotions. A...

The slasher all other horror movies should be measured against: scary, engrossing, influential and punctuated by one of the all-time...

Watch Casablanca as often as you can: here is a picture that is as entrancing during its 50th viewing as it is during its first. Words...

The Player is the most important movie in my life. It made me fall in love with movies. It remains among the big screen’s best satires....

This is a movie that has shaped big-screen science-fiction more than any other film bar perhaps 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a career...

Moonlight is one of the most touching coming-of-age tales I have seen the last couple of years. Though the film is set in an all too...

Longing and romance have probably never been portrayed as touchingly on the big screen as in David Lean’s superior forties classic. A...

Arrival is the best movie I've seen in a very long time and probably the best one I’ll see for a long time to come. Like the best...

It might have slipped under the radar during its first release but 25th Hour is a modern masterpiece, firmly rooted in the city Spike Lee...

Billy Wilder, in his own inimitable way, creates a brilliant romantic comedy that, for once, does not fall prey to sentimentality. In his...

Sideways is a supreme vintage and probably the best film of the millennium so far. A movie about an alcoholic, failed writer who doesn't...

The picture is so engrossing, so artful and so goddamn perfect in every way, you can only call Vertigo a marvel, a miracle, a...