It is a rare pleasure to watch a film of truly universal appeal - approachable to all ages and dispositions. Paddington 2 is a delightful Mille-feuille, delectable in every way and structured with care and attention. It deserves the widest audience possible. After arriving in London and finding a loving family, the Browns, in the … Continue reading Paddington 2
Campaigns are overrated. DICE's vignettes in Battlefield 1 were enjoyable but fleeting and over-praised - that game's multiplayer was its heart, a situation familiar to the developer's fans. In Battlefront II again the highly advertised and teased single player offering is pointless and short lived - admittedly with some decent budget behind it. The game charts the story … Continue reading Star Wars Battlefront II
Mercifully, the circulated runtime for Justice League is false - it certainly doesn't stretch to 170 minutes; had this been the case, the film would represent a new low for modern cinema. Instead, at a breezier couple of hours in length, this is simply an entry to rank amongst the canon of all-time worsts. Justice League is a … Continue reading Justice League
The followup to his exuberant Tangerine, The Florida Project is Sean Baker's sidelong glance at the American dream, a heartening yet dispiriting fable of youth. Our protagonist is Moonee (Brooklynn Kimberly Prince), an energetic young child enjoying her summer holidays; her mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) has found a temporary home in a motel named 'The Magic Castle', … Continue reading The Florida Project
Luca Guadagnino's new film is a painfully real and wonderfully heartfelt queer bildungsroman, bittersweet and beautiful. Call Me by Your Name tells the story of a seminal summer for 17 year old Elio (Timothée Chalamet); it is 1983 and he is spending the hottest months of the year in northern Italy with his parents, as he always has. … Continue reading Call Me by Your Name
Not every supernatural thriller looks like one, and Yorgos Lanthimos' newest film sneaks its farfetchedness through with a superb use of tone and mood; it is a frightening and unsettling success. Colin Farrell returns from the Greek director's underbaked and overpraised The Lobster, playing Steven, a successful cardiologist with an American-dream family. Nicole Kidman is his … Continue reading The Killing of a Sacred Deer
