FILM REVIEWS

The Brutalist thrillingly recalls the grand American movie epics of the fifties in ambition, themes and psychology, not to mention the...

A musical unlike any you’ll have seen, Emilia Pérez has a ballsy narrative, thematic ambition and visual delights, with a spellbinding...

Seventy years after the first film Godzilla Minus One becomes the best movie in the franchise: a thrillride that sees the impressive...

Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s peels away layers of mystery, emotion and heartfelt insight into the human condition in the touching Monster, which...

Astute, tremendously relatable observations about love, regret and lives not lived permeate the gentle gem Past Lives, culminating in a...

With a dazzlingly devious script and succulent performances by a top cast Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most entertaining, deliciously...

Call me a sentimental fool, but I fell head over heels in love with Pixar’s charming Elemental, which for the little new ground it treads...

Like the very best psychological thrillers As Bestas is both an uneasy watch and a stupendously well-wrought piece of suspense you cannot...

The miracle of this Irish variant on classic Greek tragedy is that it manages to spin a surprisingly layered, deeply moving tale out of...

Good Night Oppy had me welling up more than once as I rooted all the way for the Mars rovers at the centre of the film. It's easily one...

The movie might look naïve and vanilla on the surface but inspect a bit closer and you'll find a complexity that fascinates and moves...

The imminent dread of the narrative and the foreboding backdrops of the rugged Icelandic landscape merge into a dark, haunting,...

I was totally won over by the sheer cinematic joy Spielberg and his team conjure up during 2.5 blissful hours. For the majority of the...