Film Review / ‘Aurore’ (M) **** Film Review / ‘Aurore’ (M) **** BLANDINE Lenoir may not be the best-known of women directing films in France, but what…
Film Review / ‘Deadpool 2’ (MA) *** Film Review / ‘Deadpool 2’ (MA) *** NO, my critical faculties have not led me astray in awarding three stars for a…
Film Review / ‘Cargo’ (MA) *** Film Review / ‘Cargo’ (MA) *** THIS feature-length version of a seven-minute film screened at Tropfest in 2013 runs for 102…
Film Review / ‘Crooked House’ (PG) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Crooked House’ (PG) *** and a half WHEN I saw that Julian Fellowes had adapted Agatha Christie’s 1949 novel for filming, great…
Film Review / ‘Life of the Party’ (M) ** Film Review / ‘Life of the Party’ (M) ** MELISSA McCarthy. Actress. Plump, vociferous, willing to take pratfalls for the sake of her art,…
Film Review / ‘On Body and Soul’ (R) **** Film Review / ‘On Body and Soul’ (R) **** THE audience at last year’s Sydney Film Festival voted Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi’s “On Body…
Film Review / ‘Breath’ (M) **** Film Review / ‘Breath’ (M) **** I LIKE to imagine the conceiving of “Breath”, the movie adaptation of “Breath” the novel…
Film Review / ‘Beyond the Clouds’ (M) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Beyond the Clouds’ (M) *** and a half SINCE Iranian-born filmmaker Majid Majidi directed his first film in 1992, his narrative and documentary…
Film Review / ‘Gurrumul’ (PG) *** and a half Film Review / ‘Gurrumul’ (PG) *** and a half WHERE to begin to review director Paul Damien Williams’ comprehensive and compassionate documentary film studying…
Film Review / ‘Last Flag Flying’ (M) *** Film Review / ‘Last Flag Flying’ (M) *** FORTY five years ago, “The Last Detail” was the first movie based on a novel…
Film Review / ‘Loveless’ (MA) **** Film Review / ‘Loveless’ (MA) **** IT'S winter in St Petersburg. In the bedroom of an upmarket apartment Zhenya (Maryana Spivak)…
Film Review / ‘I Feel Pretty’ (M) ** and a half Film Review / ‘I Feel Pretty’ (M) ** and a half THIS one-joke movie is about a bigly-built woman convinced, after an accidental knock on the…