Ken Loach’s turn to sentimentality
In the 87-year-old director’s new film The Old Oak, wishful liberal thinking comes at the cost of plausibility.
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Dumb Money is a monument to American greed
Craig Gillespie’s tale of the GameStop “short squeeze” shows how little amateur investors have learned.
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The Kenneth Branagh-Agatha Christie cinematic universe
In his third reinvention of Hercule Poirot, Branagh lends him new substance, a new moustache – and a new story.
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Celine Song’s Past Lives and the trap of autobiographical art
This debut film of lost love is full of material that is clearly important to her. Why should it matter…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: a feeble last crack of the whip
The Harrison Ford franchise that began with spectacle and wit has ended with a dull, predictable, CGI-laden dud.
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Passages is Ira Sachs’s “horny film”
The director’s art-house film concerns a catastrophic ménage-a-trois.
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Scrapper is a sickly sweet father-daughter comedy
In Charlotte Regan’s playful but twee debut, a fiercely independent 12-year-old is reunited with her absent young dad.
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Why Barbenheimer won’t save cinema
July’s blockbusters made box office records – but the industry’s crisis is only deepening.
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Lie With Me is a wildly romantic story of lost love
Olivier Peyon’s new film, adapted from a bestselling gay romance, knows how an early relationship can determine a life.
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In defence of selling out
A slew of indie directors have taken on blockbusters, from Greta Gerwig to Ben Wheatley. Have they traded their credentials…
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A strategic analysis of Barbie
The ideological hegemony and failed revolution of Barbieland.
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We must resist the hype machine
Our critical culture is grossly overinflated with positive and promotional content. But popular is not always best.
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Kevin Spacey’s last stand
In his films, he acted like he had a secret. But in court facing criminal charges relating to his sex…
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Christopher Nolan: the last Tory
The director is a mass entertainer with an elitist disdain for the masses. In his films, order and hierarchy reign…
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The Virgin Suicides is a defining text of adolescent pain
Both Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel and Sofia Coppola’s film have endured through the decades, resonating with new generations of teenagers.
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Why Richard Ayoade’s Submarine still feels fresh
Now on Netflix, the coming-of-age film encapsulates the pain of adolescence in a small town.
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Oppenheimer’s tormented soul
In this perspective-shifting biopic, Christopher Nolan frames the father of the atom bomb as a tortured Prometheus.
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Why the “golden age of the documentary” is a myth
More are being released than ever before – but the documentary has entered its corporate era.
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Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: the art of selling out
The director has achieved her ambition of becoming a blockbuster director – but at what cost?
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Mission Intolerable: a stupid franchise gets stupider
Reviewing the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is an exercise as absurd as critiquing porn…
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