The Book of Clarence is a bombastic biblical satire
Jeymes Samuel’s comedy is both a playful riff on the religious epic and a witty homage to sword-and-sandals films.
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The contested afterlife of Amy Winehouse
In her life and music, she was beyond confessional. Can Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic tell us more about her than she…
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Alex Garland’s Civil War is his sharpest, most brutal dystopia
The British director’s film imagines a present day America that has fallen into internecine violence.
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Netflix’s Prince Andrew film Scoop is fun to watch. But what’s the point?
This anti-climactic, behind-the-scenes dramatisation of the royal’s infamous Newsnight interview can’t compare to the real thing.
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Dev Patel’s Monkey Man: political commentary meets bone-crunching action
The British actor-director lets his ambition run wild in this thriller set in a fictional Indian city.
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Dune: Part Two depicts a world of ceaseless struggle – like our own
Resource scarcity, neo-feudalism, perpetual conflict: Denis Villeneuve’s film is not a fantasy but an epiphany of the present.
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In Immaculate, Sydney Sweeney is Gen Z’s scream queen
At 26, the rising star has her own production company – and this body horror set in a nunnery is…
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Drive-Away Dolls should be a classic Coen caper – but isn’t
Ethan’s first feature film without Joel sounds like a romp, but misses every beat. Do the brothers need each other…
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