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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