Pieces Of A Woman (15) Rating: Verdict: Harrowing but compelling Yellow Rose (12) Rating: Verdict: Stand by your ma The first day of January always feels to me more personal than other days — a day for introspection and making private resolutions (just as January 8 or thereabouts is usually about breaking them). So forgive me … Read more
Pieces Of A Woman (15) Rating: Verdict: Harrowing but compelling Yellow Rose (12) Rating: Verdict: Stand by your ma The first day of January always feels to me more personal than other days — a day for introspection and making private resolutions (just as January 8 or thereabouts is usually about breaking them). So forgive me … Read more
Let Him Go (15) Verdict: Very watchable curiosity Rating: Come Away (PG) Verdict: Misbegotten whimsy Rating: One Night In Miami Verdict: No knockout Rating: For much of this year, the pandemic has cruelly kept grandparents away from their grandchildren. Well, Let Him Go is set in the early Sixties and has nothing to do with … Read more
The Prom (12A) Verdict: Exuberant fun Rating: The Midnight Sky (12A) Verdict: Ponderous sci-fi drama Rating: While I wouldn’t want to overload you with positive news in the week in which the first Covid-19 vaccines were administered, The Prom offers another way out of our vale of tiers, if only in the form of two … Read more
Mank (12A) Verdict: Cherishably intelligent Rating: Psycho, Mary Poppins and Citizen Kane are the unlikeliest of cinematic bedfellows, but they now have one striking thing in common — they have all inspired some terrific filmmakers to hold up a mirror to their own industry, with beguiling results. In the excellent 2012 film Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins … Read more
Billie (15) Verdict: Hits all the right notes Rating: The Three Kings (PG) Verdict: A real crowd-pleaser Rating: Lennox: The Untold Story (15) Verdict: Not a knockout Rating: Of a trio of new documentaries, the pick is Billie, a truly riveting film about the great blues artist Billie Holiday, whose teenage ambition, growing up in … Read more
The Witches (VOD, including Amazon, Prime Video and Sky Cinema, from Monday, PG) Verdict: Enchantingly gruesome Rating: The Secret Garden (cinemas, PG) Verdict: Mildly disappointing Rating: Once Upon A Snowman (Disney+) Verdict: Not too abominable Rating: The imagination of Roald Dahl and the ingenuity of director Robert Zemeckis make an enchantingly heady brew in The … Read more
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Rating: Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is not the only person entitled to watch Borat 2 through his fingers. For the rest of us, too, that is at times the only proper response to a comedy that … Read more
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Rating: Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is not the only person entitled to watch Borat 2 through his fingers. For the rest of us, too, that is at times the only proper response to a comedy that doesn’t so much push at the boundaries of taste as bulldoze them over the … Read more
Rebecca (Cinemas, 12A) Verdict: Revisiting a classic Rating: Daphne du Maurier did not write her haunting 1938 novel Rebecca expecting it to be adapted for the screen — but it wasn’t long, as she put it herself, before film people were ‘sniffing around’. The sniffing has never really stopped. Alfred Hitchcock’s celebrated movie was released … Read more