Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch is impossibly accomplished – and a bit boring
A romanticisation of the New Yorker in its heyday, the movie is all aesthetic and no emotional depth.
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William Shatner in space: the most elitist spiritual experience imaginable?
Watching Jeff Bezos send the 90-year-old actor speeding into the atmosphere was equal parts thrilling and creepy.
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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is a coming-of-age space epic
For all its monsters and skulduggery, this is essentially a story in which a young man dreams of a woman…
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Why Labyrinth’s goblin king is the most important role David Bowie played
Without Jim Henson’s muppetry masterpiece, Bowie could have remained a mortal man. Instead, his legacy is one of ethereal weirdness.
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David Lowery’s The Green Knight feels like a waking dream
This modern retelling makes the Middle English poem both intelligible and peculiar.
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In No Time To Die, James Bond is a well-behaved family man
It is remarkable proof of Daniel Craig’s charisma that he can make this regretful saint work as an action hero…
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Daniel Craig is retiring as James Bond. Thank God for that
In their attempt to give Bond an interior life, Craig’s films became miserable and boring.
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The Many Saints of Newark: an origin story for an anti-hero
David Chase’s The Sopranos spin-off takes the story back in time. Call it Tony Soprano’s Hannibal Rising.
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