Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener is inexcusably nasty – and yet I loved it
This story of an ex-white supremacist and a mixed-race woman tending to the grounds of a former plantation will make…
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Mark Gatiss: Rishi Sunak “doesn’t give a toss” about the arts
The actor and writer on playing John Gielgud, the culture wars and a decade of Tory arts cuts.
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret captures the book’s timeless goodness
Funny and at points very moving, this adaptation of the Judy Blume novel has a golden heart.
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Beau Is Afraid is a cartoonishly Freudian horror
Ari Aster’s black comedy about malign maternal influence is full of cod-psychology that makes Psycho look like a Mother’s Day…
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The Eight Mountains is a rare portrait of male friendship
This moving film takes on a truly unusual subject: a durable, unstated, non-sexual relationship between two men.
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A Thousand and One understands the effects of gentrification
In this sensitive debut about a mother who steals her son from care, AV Rockwell maps the contours of a…
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a quintessentially British road trip
The screen adaptation of the bestselling book inevitably (and ideally) stars Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton – but plods along…
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Should we make films about Grenfell?
A new work by Steve McQueen follows no less than three verbatim dramas. Where is the line between political art…
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