CODA, review: comedy drama about deafness that should have taken more risks
12A cert, 111 min. Dir: Siân Heder The industry has been making big noises around CODA, a warmly well-intentioned comedy-drama about a deaf family, which won multiple…
Fresh, review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is on the table in this warped horror-thriller
A stranger called Steve (Sebastian Stan) makes a charmingly awkward impression in the fresh veg aisle, as Noa (Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones) consoles herself with some grocery…
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, review: Emma Thompson gets naked in this taboo-busting two-hander
Breaking down taboos around our attitudes to sex on screen is a laudable project, and one that the British two-hander Good Luck to You, Leo Grande gets…
Phoenix Rising, review: Evan Rachel Wood’s searing allegations against Marilyn Manson
In February 2018, the actress Evan Rachel Wood appeared in front of US Congress to testify about her personal experience of rape and sexual assault. She shared…
We Need to Talk About Cosby, review: tries too hard to tell a story bigger than Cosby
Bill Cosby was “America’s Dad” but also a wise and fatherly presence in the lives of the millions around the world who watched his Eighties sitcom The…
Nothing Compares, review: powerful, heartening portrait of Sinead O’Connor as a heroic figure
Shaped by childhood abuse both personal and institutional, as a rebellious teenager O’Connor was sent to be raised by nuns in a cloistered order. It was also…
Call Jane, review: Elizabeth Banks is an exhilarating heroine in this fascinating slice of modern history
Call Jane is about a status quo for women’s rights that needed a massive overhaul, after all the noisy ferment of 1968, but before abortion was made…
Fresh, review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is better than ever in warped horror-thriller
A stranger called Steve (Sebastian Stan) makes a charmingly awkward impression in the fresh veg aisle, as Noa (Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones) consoles herself with some grocery…
892, review: John Boyega energises this hostage drama
No film can tackle a true story about a hostage situation – in a bank, for good measure – without expecting to be compared with Sidney Lumet’s…
Living, review: Bill Nighy is brilliant in this graceful, affecting Akira Kurosawa remake
On the long list of films there can be no conceivable need to remake, Ikiru must be somewhere near the top. Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 drama about a…
The Princess, review: a reminder that Diana’s life and death were no soap opera
In an ordinary American house on a late August evening in 1997, seven friends are sitting at a table playing cards. One of them is filming the…