Rating: 4.5★
Some of the best stories are the ones you can scarcely believe are true, and Pride is built on a beauty. In the summer of 1984, a small group of gay and lesbian activists in London looked at the striking miners being ground down by Margaret Thatcher's government,
Rating: 3.5★
There is a nice surprise waiting in the credits of Twisters, and it is the kind of surprise that makes you sit up a little straighter in your seat. This giant, deafening summer tornado movie was directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the man behind Minari, one of the most tender
Rating: 2.5★
Every so often a film comes along that dares you to describe it with a straight face. The Boxer's Omen is firmly one of them. Try explaining it to someone at a party and watch their expression shift from polite interest to genuine concern for your wellbeing. A
Rating: 3.0★
To most horror fans, the name Lucio Fulci means one thing: gore, and buckets of it. The splatter operas of his later career earned him the "Godfather of Gore" billing that still defines his reputation, and if you want to see what that looks like in full swing,
Rating: 3.0★
There is a version of Higher Learning that could have been one of the defining American films of the nineties. You can feel it in the best scenes, straining to get out. That it does not quite manage it is genuinely frustrating, because John Singleton was, at his best, among
Rating: 3.5★
I came to The Maze Runner with my expectations set firmly to low. It sits on Letterboxd's "Top 250 Most Fans" list, which in my experience is often code for popular rather than good, and I had it filed away under interchangeable young-adult blockbuster, the
Rating: 2.5★
The marketing for I Saw the TV Glow is doing nobody any favours. I came in braced for horror, primed for dread, and found something else entirely: a slow, melancholy, dreamlike film about identity and dissociation that uses the language of late-night television and adolescent longing to ask some
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Marking Michael Keaton at 75: a look back across Michael's career through the films I've reviewed.
Rating: 4.0★
There is a moment in Blue Valentine where Ryan Gosling's character stands outside a shop front strumming something ridiculous on a ukulele while Michelle Williams dances along, and it stopped me cold. Not because it is showy or scored to make you feel a particular way, but because
Rating: 1.5★
There is a special circle of cinema reserved for the truly botched video-game adaptation, and its patron saint is Uwe Boll, the man who gave us the immortal catastrophe of House of the Dead, still one of the worst films I have ever sat through. I bring him up
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I came to Leave Me Alone partly for its lead. Kiran Sonia Sawar was wonderful in the miniseries Pure, a show I loved, and the chance to watch her carry a horror short was reason enough to say yes when the film-maker Shehroze Khan asked me to take a
Rating: 4.0★
I have found myself falling hard for Iranian cinema of late. Alongside the Japanese and the Korean, it has become one of the national traditions I most look forward to exploring, and the films keep rewarding the attention. So many of them are built around revolution, or quiet defiance, or
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