Rating: 3.5★
There is a nine-year-old girl in the first story of The Day I Became a Woman who has until noon. That is her deadline. Once the sun hits its highest point on her birthday, she will officially be a woman, and she will never be allowed to play
Rating: 2.5★
There is a particular horror in hearing mass death described as a job well done. Operation Dominic is essentially an hour of exactly that, and the discomfort never really lets up, even when you know going in what you are dealing with. This is not a documentary in any ordinary
Rating: 1.0★
By now, with a fair few of these under my belt, I've made my peace with the fact that arthouse and I are rarely going to see eye to eye. But even by my own standards, La Libertad tested the limits of that peace. This is arthouse in
Rating: 2.5★
There is a moment in this film that I keep turning over in my mind. A young man lifts his mother, frail and fading, and carries her out into the landscape she has always loved, giving her one last look at the world she is about to leave. On paper,
Rating: 3.5★
There is a corner of the Indian Ocean so remote that, by Benjamin Pederick's own account, no film had ever been made there before he turned up with a camera. That fact alone stopped me in my tracks. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are an Australian territory most of
Rating: 2.0★
The most baffling thing about Magicians is what it does with the two people it hired to carry the whole thing. David Mitchell and Robert Webb, Peep Show royalty and one of the sharpest comedy pairings British television has produced in years, are kept apart for the bulk of the
Rating: 3.0★
What if the killer was not a masked slasher with a grudge, not a monster from some shadowy mythology, but Death itself? That was the question Final Destination turned up with in 2000, and credit where it is due: nobody had really asked it quite like that before. The setup
Rating: 1.0★
A film called Five Dedicated to Ozu invites you, right there in the title, to think of one of cinema's great masters of stillness and quiet contemplation. It is a bold invocation. It is also, I'm sorry to say, one this film has absolutely no business
Rating: 2.5★
I came to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang blind, as I like to, having spotted it on the "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They" list of the century's best films. For a while, I genuinely thought I understood the fuss. It opens strongly. I warmed to
Rating: 3.0★
I adore the original Die Hard. It is one of the finest action films of the eighties, the one that turned Bruce Willis into a superstar, and for years I carried around a memory of the sequel being even better. Sharper, bigger, more fun. So when I finally sat down
Rating: 3.0★
There is a lovely, wistful idea sitting at the heart of The Purple Rose of Cairo, and for a good while it is enough. Woody Allen's 1985 film follows Cecilia, a downtrodden waitress in Depression-era New Jersey, played by Mia Farrow, who escapes her miserable reality the
Rating: 3.5★
The Last Detail hangs on a small, quietly infuriating injustice. A young sailor, barely more than a boy, has been handed eight years in a naval prison for stealing forty dollars from a charity box. Two hardened Navy men are tasked with delivering him there: Nicholson's foul-mouthed
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