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Anchored by a superb central performance by Fernanda Torres, this is a film that sees the love and safety of the ties that bind tested by trauma and terror.

Brazil's 1970s dictatorship hits home in I'm Still Here

I'm Still Here chronicles harrowing real-life events in the 1970s, focusing on civil engineer and former politician Rubens Paiva, his wife Eunice, and their five children during Brazil's military dictatorship.

Movie Review • 20 Feb

Mr. Walliker (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Review: Bridget Jones: from romcom to sob-com

The fourth Bridget Jones movie manages to deliver a greatest hits package as well as bittersweet lessons in love and life

Movie Review • 14 Feb

Barry Keoghan delivers a chilling performance, doing what he does best - characters of moral ambiguity with a streak of malevolence. Photo credit: Nick Cooke

Barry Keoghan is chilling in Bring Them Down

A disturbingly dark and gripping tale of rivalry and vengeance between neighbouring shepherds in this strong directorial debut

Movie Review • 08 Feb

Dog Man is the hero we all need right now

Dav Pilkey's massively popular Dog Man graphic novels get the DreamWorks treatment in a fun tale where he encounters a criminal cat and a

Movie Review • 08 Feb

This is relentless filmmaking from Swiss director and co-writer Tim Fehlbaum

September 5: How Munich Olympics terror changed TV news

We don't realise how much of the world that we now experience can be traced back to September 5, 1972 - the date of the Munich Olympics massacre that saw 11 members of the Israeli team killed.

Movie Review • 08 Feb

Love Hurts is like a date movie for MMA fans

Oscar winners Ke Huy Quan and Ariana Debose are scar-crossed lovers in this mob-tastically violent tale of unrequited love, relentless revenge - and real estate.

Movie Review • 08 Feb

As good an examination of a complicated hero resisting the mindset and manacles of 20th-century Ireland as any work of fiction

Edna O'Brien gets her big-screen due in new documentary

A celebration of the independent spirit, a fascinating study of hard-learned (and earned) creativity, and a reminder that we are all mired in the utter messiness of life, Blue Road... gives the late Edna O'Brien her big-screen due and then some.

Movie Review • 31 Jan

A loving and entertaining tribute to an American TV institution

Saturday Night is a treat to see on one of your own

Saturday Night, a behind-the-scenes story of the 90-minute build-up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live, is a loving and entertaining tribute to an American TV institution.

Movie Review • 30 Jan

Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a Londoner who would give Jack Nicholson's As Good as It Gets character Melvin Udall a good run for his money

Family misfortunes: Hard Truths brings it all back home

Mike Leigh is reunited after almost three (gulp) decades with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and the results are as satisfyingly funny, bittersweet, and sad as fans could want.

Movie Review • 29 Mar

With The Brutalist, director Brady Corbet has delivered a film that deserves to be seen on the biggest cinema screen possible

The Brutalist is epic - but room to improve the ending

The bona fide event movie - the one you queue for, implore others to go to see, and then pay to watch again - are now the rarest of breeds. In 2023, we had two, Oppenheimer and Barbie. This year, it's The Brutalist.

Movie Review • 23 Jan

Timothée Chalamet is electrifying in A Complete Unknown

Timothée Chalamet plays the young Bob Dylan in this entertaining look through his back pages

Movie Review • 18 Jan

Jolie deserves all the flower tossing, applause and to be part of the Best Actress Oscar conversation

Maria marches to its own beat; Jolie deserves ovation

Angelina Jolie's first leading role in over a decade saw her score her ninth Golden Globe nomination for playing opera diva Maria Callas – but that was just a warm-up. All eyes are now on Jolie to hit the right notes during this year's Oscars race.

Movie Review • 09 Jan

Kieran Culkin is unforgettable in A Real Pain

Jesse Eisnberg's tale of two greiving cousins on a Holcaust tour shows off his skills in front of and behind the camera - but ultimately puts Kieran Culkin in the Oscar spotlight.

Movie Review • 13 Jan

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson are magnetic in Babygirl

Babygirl - raw, sexy and surprising

Babygirl is a raw, sexy and surprising examination of an illicit affair between a high-powered CEO and her much younger intern.

Movie Review • 10 Jan

Lily Rose-Depp has a star-making turn in Nosferatu

Director Robert Eggers has brought his exacting attention to detail, faithfulness to historical accuracy and sumptuous, all-enveloping sets and costumes to another level on Nosferatu, an intense, bleakly beautiful gothic horror.

Movie Review • 31 Dec 24

If you're a big fan of, say, Before Sunrise, Jerry Maguire, The Notebook, or any other romance that screens on a loop in both head and heart, then you should play gooseberry here

Brooklyn's director returns with We Live in Time

As if there weren't enough feels from the arrival of the new year, Brooklyn director John Crowley rocks up to cinemas with this two-hander about the magic and messiness of our numbered days.

Movie Review • 01 Jan

Robbie, a man who always had a talent for simian-like merry mayhem and very bad behaviour, is played by a chimp

Ape that: Robbie Williams monkeys about in biopic

Robbie Williams is both the hero and the villain in bizarre and bananas biopic Better Man

Movie Review • 28 Dec 24

The Order is one of the best thrillers of recent years

If you want to close out 2024 or start 2025 with a thriller that's as troubling as it is tense, then The Order is for you.

Movie Review • 26 Dec 24

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Brazil's 1970s dictatorship hits home in I'm Still Here

Review: Bridget Jones: from romcom to sob-com

Barry Keoghan is chilling in Bring Them Down

Dog Man is the hero we all need right now

September 5: How Munich Olympics terror changed TV news

Love Hurts is like a date movie for MMA fans

Edna O'Brien gets her big-screen due in new documentary

Saturday Night is a treat to see on one of your own

Family misfortunes: Hard Truths brings it all back home

The Brutalist is epic - but room to improve the ending

Timothée Chalamet is electrifying in A Complete Unknown

Maria marches to its own beat; Jolie deserves ovation

Kieran Culkin is unforgettable in A Real Pain

Babygirl - raw, sexy and surprising

Lily Rose-Depp has a star-making turn in Nosferatu

Brooklyn's director returns with We Live in Time

Ape that: Robbie Williams monkeys about in biopic

The Order is one of the best thrillers of recent years

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