Film Editorial
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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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Studio 54
The rollicking story of the legendary NYC nightclub Studio 54, and its gloriously decadent, brief, initial two-and-a-half year run, has been told already via the fictional 199...
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L’Amant Double
The latest from the ever-versatile French director Ozon, an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel Lives of the Twinsis a handsomely rendered, occasionally unhinged, but ultim...
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The Happy Prince
Rupert Everett already has an association with Oscar Wilde having appeared in big screen adaptations of The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband. He also played th...
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In the Fade
Despite a riveting performance from Diana Kruger, this courtroom revenge thriller from the once vital Turkish German director Fatih Akin, feels disappointingly mainstream and ...
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The Boy Downstairs
Mamet, the third breakout star from Girls (alongside Adam Driver and Allison Williams) has already shone in various supporting feature film roles. Here she gets her own deserv...
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