Maïmouna Doucouré's Cuties is an often compelling crowd-pleaser, if somewhat under-baked, which looks at how girls end up becoming over-sexualized at a young …
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Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Review: What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a good introduction to the legendary film critic, but ignores much of the context and legacy of her work. Pauline …
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Sam Mendes’s 1917 is breathtaking in every way
A chamber drama tucked inside an exquisitely rendered war epic, Sam Mendes's 1917 is a breathtaking thriller with perfect pacing. George MacKay as Schofield …
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The search for strange: Werner Herzog re-examines Bruce Chatwin’s travels in Nomad
20 years after travel writer Bruce Chatwin’s death, Herzog’s new film Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin serves as both a celebration of Chatwin’s …
63 Up is a moving new installment in Michael Apted’s series
Michael Apted's latest addition his 'Up' series, 63 Up, catches up with the participants he's been following since they were seven, in one of the most moving …
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Pain and Glory is a knotty self-portrait
In Pain and Glory, Almodovar brings together fiction and biography to create a knotty self-portrait. Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory directed by Pedro …
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