movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Sep 19
Anna Kendrick investigates the disappearance of her friend Blake Lively in A Simple Favour; Lea Carpenter cowrites action thriller Mile 22; more…
Month: September 2018
The Little Stranger movie review: so many ways to be haunted
A glorious gothic conundrum of obsession, delusion, psychological infection, and just possibly actual malevolent spirits. The most haunting aspect of this eerily enrapturing film may be the sly, maddening ambiguity of it all.
Tea with the Dames (aka Nothing Like a Dame) documentary review: legends speak
Come sit next to Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, and Eileen Atkins and eavesdrop on their witty banter, amiable swearing, and grand tales of their stage and film careers.
Mile 22 movie review: unfortunately no one can be told what any of it means
Welcome to the first action movie of the Trump era, wherein civil liberties are a distant fantasy and “no man left behind” has been forgotten, yet this is all “a higher form of patriotism.”
The House with a Clock in Its Walls movie review: good witches and not-so-good witches
Charming entry-level spookiness and nicely old-fashioned eeriness for budding fright fans. A disarmingly goofy Jack Black and a vamping-it-up Cate Blanchett meet in a comic middle that is perfectly pitched.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Sep 14
Angie Wang directs crime drama MDMA; Amma Asante directs historical romance Where Hands Touch; Amy Scott directs documentary Hal; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Sep 14
Chloé Zhao directs modern revisionist Western The Rider; Annemarie Jacir directs Palestinian family drama Wajib; Eva Hausberger codirects a documentary about the Glock pistol; more…
Lost Child (aka Tatterdemalion) movie review: little devil? or little boy?
An extraordinarily delicate balancing act between drama and horror, visually and psychologically expansive, set in a place where stories of monsters are not mere entertaining fun, and where superstition is not harmless.
The Predator movie review: pointless retro junk
Garbage. A bad excuse for a movie, even for the pulpy disposable popcorn nonsense it wants to be. Incoherent and illogical, cheap and shoddy. Wannabe sci-fi action horror that can’t pull off any of it.
The Rider movie review: when the work that makes a man is taken away
An extraordinary semidocumentary drama, beautifully accomplished, about dignity, work, and masculinity. Heartbreaking and yet utterly unsentimental, this is one of the most important films of the year.
