An intense affair at times, largely due to Schoenaerts’ compelling performance, Bullhead is moving yet a little frustrating due to a lack of cohesion. Still, this is a grand effort for a first-time feature, its…
Zero Dark Thirty follows the CIA’s efforts to hunt and kill Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, following the 2001 terror attack which brough down New York City’s World Trade Centre. More specifically, it is…
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a magnificent spectacle of Daniel Day-Lewis’ uncanny talents of immersion, writes Tom Seymour.…
The Sessions follows John Hawkes’ Mark, a sweet and awkward poet trying to lose his virginity. This is the stuff of a thousand feel-good romcoms with one crucial difference: Mark is paralysed from the…
Tarantino's Spaghetti Western revenge drama is a cartoonish, exaggerated and reflexive provocation of America’s history of slavery, writes Tom Seymour.…
Time has helped cement Roman Polanski's Chinatown as a seminal piece of film-making, more than simply an engaging genre piece but a discourse on America itself, writes Guy Bolton.…
Perhaps Gangster Squad’s biggest blunder is its lack of sincerity. The players don’t seem to take it seriously - so why should we? asks Guy Bolton.…
Cruise is in the best shape of his life, but Jack Reacher feels like breezy airport fiction, a paint-by-numbers thriller with nothing left after the curtains close, writes Guy Bolton.…
Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh's follow up to In Bruges, is 'one of the funniest films of the year,' writes Nikki Baughan…
Ben Wheatley's Sightseers plays like a 'deliciously dark mash up of Bonnie and Clyde meets Carry on Camping,' writes Nikki Baughan…
