Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (U) Verdict: Liberty-taking sequel Rating: My New York Year (15) Verdict: Low-key literary charmer Rating: Pippi, my companion at the Odeon Hereford, chuckled happily throughout Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway on Monday afternoon. Her pleasure made me smile. During one sustained burst of high-pitched giggling, I even laughed. For … Read more
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (U) Verdict: Liberty-taking sequel Rating: My New York Year (15) Verdict: Low-key literary charmer Rating: Pippi, my companion at the Odeon Hereford, chuckled happily throughout Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway on Monday afternoon. Her pleasure made me smile. During one sustained burst of high-pitched giggling, I even laughed. For … Read more
Those Who Wish Me Dead (15) Rating: Verdict: For she’s a Jolie good fellow The Secrets We Keep Rating: Verdict: Derivative thriller Some Kind Of Heaven Rating: Verdict: Funny, sad documentary To believe in the almost impressively porous plot of Those Who Wish Me Dead, you have first to believe in Angelina Jolie as a … Read more
End Of Sentence (15) Verdict: Worth seeing, full stop Rating: Cowboys (15) Verdict: TransAmerican adventure Rating: Once Upon A River (15) Verdict: Never the Twain Rating: Only in the past few years have strained parent-child relationships been quite such a propulsive force in cinematic storytelling. The subject has always popped up here and there. But … Read more
Nomadland (12A) Rating: Verdict: Admirable, but not lovable Heaven knows what ‘Uncle’ Walt Disney would have made of Nomadland, with its story of Americans made refugees in their own country, trying almost literally to consign grief, loss and economic hardship to the rear-view mirror. I raise the rhetorical question (he’d have hated it, of course) … Read more
BRIAN VINER: Whatever happened to the glamour of the movies? It’s the very last question that should be asked on Oscars weekend but, honestly where did the fun go? Did Godzilla gobble it up?
BRIAN VINER: Whatever happened to the glamour of the movies? It’s the very last question that should be asked on Oscars weekend but, honestly where did the fun go? Did Godzilla gobble it up?
On Sunday evening, when the 93rd Academy Awards are dished out, 74-year-old Glenn Close will more than likely have to find her ‘gracious loser’ expression when she fails to win the Best Supporting Actress statuette for her performance as a doughty working-class grandma in Hillbilly Elegy. Maybe she’ll win, although it wasn’t a universally-admired film … Read more
Promising Young Woman Verdict: Grimly comic revenge thriller Rating: The Year Earth Changed Verdict: Animal magic Rating: Promising Young Woman arrives on our screens today freshly anointed with a pair of BAFTAs, for Outstanding British Film and Best Original Screenplay. That’s the kind of promotional thrust money can’t buy. At least, we assume it can’t. You may … Read more
Rest easy, Tom and Jerry escape the PC brigade! BRIAN VINER finds that 80 years on, the legendary cartoon cat and mouse still fizz with slapstick violence in new movie By Brian Viner For The Daily Mail Published: 22:33 GMT, 23 March 2021 | Updated: 22:36 GMT, 23 March 2021 Tom and Jerry The Movie … Read more