Film Review

I won’t describe the last few seconds of Split, but it’s fair to say they confirm it as a film by M. Night Shyamalan. Ever since making his name with …

The Great Wall Bye bye 2016, with its dubious referendums and celebrity deaths. Hello 2017, with its hoped-for healing and possible solution to the Cyprus problem – though also hello …

“I believe in America,” declared Signor Bonasera in The Godfather, but Live by Night – another film that delights in tense negotiations and smooth middle-aged men making veiled threats – …

Films based on videogames are never any good, but Assassin’s Creed has ideas above its station. It has Oscar-winning actors spouting lines like “Prepare the Animus!”. It has grave pronouncements …

Michigan was one of those surprise Midwestern states that went for Donald Trump in this year’s US elections. That may seem irrelevant to a broad, raucous comedy with a cast …

You can tell a lot about Moana from its comic relief. Comedy sidekicks in kids’ cartoons tend to be manic and excitable, from Timon and Pumbaa in The Lion King …

Music plays, and the world disappears. It’s a feeling – the liberating power of music – that’s made visual more than once in La La Land, the room going dark …

Science fiction has the best premises. No surprise there; any genre based on impossible what-ifs is bound to wind up in some interesting places. What if interplanetary travel were possible, …