Film Editorial
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A Sicilian Ghost Story
Directing duo Grassadonia and Piazza’s follow-up to the highly-praised Mafia hitman pic Salvo is a bewitching combination of dramatized true crime story, angsty teen romance a...
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The Escape
Gemma Arterton gives a career best performance in this attentive and humane, if occasionally harrowing, portrait of depression from writer-director Dominic Savage. She is Tara...
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Ant-Man and The Wasp
After the bleak conclusion of Avengers Infinity War, Marvel Studios lighten matters up considerably for the second standalone picture for thief-turned-shrinking-superhero, Sco...
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The Guardians
There have been a number of recent films commemorating the centenary of World War 1. French director, Beauvois’s picture delves into a hitherto underexplored aspect, the pligh...
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Hearts Beat Loud
Even the appealing presence of ‘Park and Recreation’s’ Nick Offerman fails to elevate this indie-flavoured comedy about a middle-aged dude learning to move on, above the merel...
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The Children Act
The second Ian McEwan adaptation of the year, following On Chesil Beach, is another well-acted but underwhelming slice of middle class angst. Thompson is Fiona Maye, a high co...
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Path of Blood
This extraordinary but frustrating documentary, assembled from seized home-movie footage, charts the progress of a set of Al Qaeda operatives in a jihadi boot camp in Saudi Ar...
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Apostasy
This very impressive debut from British writer-director Kokotajlo is a slow-burning but gripping drama set among a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Manchester. ‘Happy Valle...
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The Endless
This low-budget but visually arresting sci-fi drama from multi-tasking writer-directorial duo Benson and Moorhead has the haunting and otherworldly feel of such similarly cut-...
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Leave No Trace
Writer-director Debra Granik’s long awaited follow-up to ‘Winter’s Bone’, adapted from Peter Rock’s novel ‘My Abandonment’ is a low-key and humane look at characters living of...
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Mario
Just in time for the Russian World Cup with its attendant concerns of that country’s less than enlightened treatment of the LGBT community, comes this tender, but rather rote ...
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First Reformed
The very definition of a film of two halves, Paul Schrader’s dour drama looks to Bergman and Bresson for inspiration in the first, before suddenly switching to something far m...
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My Friend Dahmer
Despite the potentially lurid and exploitative sounding subject matter, this portrait of the high school days of serial killer-to-be Jeffrey Dahmer, adapted from John Backderf...
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