Film Editorial
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Stan and Ollie
After all the glitz and flash of the festive season, this undemanding but appealingly heartfelt biopic, which traces the twilight career of much-loved comedy duo Laurel and Ha...
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Beautiful Boy
Adapted from two memoirs by San Francisco journalist David Sheff, this earnest and slightly dull drama chronicles the toil on a family when the eldest son becomes addicted to ...
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Destroyer
Director Kusama’s dour crime drama has its moments, as well as a typically committed performance from Nicole Kidman, but is uneven and pretentious. We first encounter LAPD det...
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Mozes and the Firstbone
Dadcore (Burger Records) - I first caught wind of this Dutch band back in 2013 with their really rather good self-titled debut album and their sophomore release does more of t...
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The Old Man and the Gun
Although wrongly rumoured to be Robert Redford’s last role, writer-director David Lowery’s picture, his follow-up to the bold, sombre ‘Ghost Story’, nevertheless serves as an ...
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Disobedience
Based on the novel by Naomi Alderman, Chilean director Lelio’s follow-up to his dazzling and stirring transgender character study ‘A Fantastic Woman’ is more low-key and sombr...
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Three Identical Strangers
This documentary about three identical twins, Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland and David Kellman, who were separated at birth then later reunited in the early 80s, belongs alongsid...
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Sorry to Bother You
Hip-hop artist turned writer-director Boots Riley’s hotly anticipated (in some quarters) political satire is just as unhinged and bonkers as mooted. The currently ubiquitous S...
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White Boy Rick
Based on a true story this crime drama about a disreputable blue-collar Detroit-dwelling dad and his son unfolds during the height of the 80s war on drugs, where desperate pol...
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Shoplifters
Another year, another masterly humanist picture from prolific Japanese writer-director Kore-Eda. This Palme d’Or winner sees him returning to his pet subjects: family relation...
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The Workshop
Writer-director Laurent Cantet returns to the classroom setting of his 2008 masterpiece docudrama ‘The Class’ with similarly involving results. The excellent Marina Foïs is Ol...
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Peterloo
Mike Leigh’s most ambitious film to date marks the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre, when the cavalry charged 60,000 peaceful protestors in St Peter’s Field, Manchester. I...
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Widows
A big screen reworking of Lynda La Plante’s 1980s TV series may seem a left field choice for artist-turned-auteur director Steve McQueen, but this ambitious and sprawling, if ...
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