I adore Call Me By Your Name, yet it’s easy to see the case against it. The houses are too big, and the settings are too pretty. Everyone is handsome, …
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I adore Call Me By Your Name, yet it’s easy to see the case against it. The houses are too big, and the settings are too pretty. Everyone is handsome, …
Tom Cruise may have put it best, 20 years ago in Magnolia: “Respect! The cock!”. There’s another cock in Phantom Thread (from the same director as Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson) …
The only relief in The Death of Stalin – a gut-punch, pitch-black political comedy by Armando Iannucci – is that you know the ending, or at least you should. (Look …
As the third and final installment in this young adult film franchise, Maze Runner: The Death Cure draws its last breath (one hopes). Like its two pretty mediocre predecessors, it …
With an opening sequence that deserves its very own Oscar nomination, Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut sets the tone on such a high that the rest of the film feels like …
Christian (Claes Bang) attempts to give a speech – having carefully rehearsed it to make it look ‘spontaneous’ – but is interrupted by an old man who can’t seem to …
There’s one fascinating aspect to Darkest Hour. You wouldn’t think there’d be anything fascinating left to say about Winston Churchill during WWII, but there is one thing: not so much …
I guess it had to happen – though did it, really? Even with the law of averages, there’s no reason why another needless reboot should be any more palatable than …
News is the first rough draft of history, claims newspaper owner Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) in The Post – but Oscar-bait movies are the other end of the animal, the …
Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life. Martin Scorsese in Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. The crows. The sunflowers. The bandaged ear. “Starry, starry night.” The man whose paintings now sell for millions …
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