Category: Reviews
-
Clouds of Sils Maria – Review
Clouds of Sils Maria cheats, tricks, and blindsides its audience, but this is only a good thing in director Olivier Assayas’ hands; his latest movie represents cinema in, many ways, its purest form. Juliette Binoche plays Maria, an ageing actor whose career is in flux. Having severed herself from Hollywood, she seeks something more fulfilling… Read More >
Written by
-
Fifty Shades of Grey – Review
“the film’s narrative is a somewhat more traditional, romantic tale – so if director Sam Taylor-Johnson can extract that from the page, and use it to build a film around, it could turn out to be quite good, right?” Read More >
Written by
-
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter – Review
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter begins as a horror film. A red-hooded figure stumbles innocently into a dank cave, dripping with darkness, and upon turning up a dirty rock, discovers a beat-up video tape. Slotting it into a cassette player, we realise the figure – a she – has come across nothing more than a VHS… Read More >
Written by
-
Love is Strange – Review
Love may be strange, but it’s also many other things: frustrating, testing, beautiful. In this fine sixth feature from Ira Sachs, it’s also a force of nature. Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) have been together for nearly 40 years, and as a couple, have lived in New York City for most of those.… Read More >
Written by
-
The Turning – Review
“for every misstep, the film does something very, very right”… Read More >
Written by
-
Selma – Review
“It’s these human viewpoints at the film’s centre which elevate Selma from dusty biopic territory into the realms of remarkable, artful cinema.” Read More >
Written by
-
Son of a Gun – Review
“The film begins in quite breathtaking fashion with an intense, compelling opening act in the prison where JR and Brendan first meet.” Read More >
Written by
-
The Gambler review
“Rumours have it that a certain Martin Scorsese was originally attached to the project, before leaving it for somebody else to take on; and having now seen the finished product, you can certainly see why.” Read More >
Written by
-
-
Whiplash review
“The story itself doesn’t sound like it would be one that is so deserving of such high acclaim, but it’s that understated nature which serves Whiplash so well.” Read More >
Written by
