Hellion rating: green light
Kat Candler’s exploration of toxic male adolescence is handsome and haunting, with a star-making performance by its young star, but we’ve seen this before.
reviews
Belle movie review: untold stories
Wonderful true story about a mixed-race woman raised in aristocratic late-18th-century England; like the best Jane Austen romance with a social conscience.
Oculus movie review: broken glass
The eerie atmosphere of psychological upset is intriguing and unusual, but it’s not actually all that scary.
112 Weddings documentary review: after the party ends
A startling and welcome breath of reality for an institution overladen by fantasy in our culture. Happily ever after is hard!
A Perfect Plan movie review: dumb and dumber
With rom-coms like this, who needs warcrimes? This is the most cruel, most contrived romantic comedy I have ever had the displeasure to endure.
The Diary of a Nobody stage review (White Bear Theatre, Kennington)
Wonderfully weird madcap nonsense: imagine Monty Python staging a Victorian sitcom.
Grace of Monaco movie review: it’s hard to be a woman
It’s not emotionally enthralling, but there’s still much that’s intriguing in this portrait of a woman who refused to let herself be pushed out of frame.
22 Jump Street movie review: an advanced course in the sequel
Funnier even than the first film, nonstop self-deprecation that doles out well-deserved smacks to about 817 Hollywood things that desperately deserve it.
Jeune & Jolie (aka Young & Beautiful) movie review: who says virgin/whore must be a dichotomy?
Is she a virgin, or a whore? Surprise, she’s both! This French drama about a teenager is infuriating in its reductive stereotypes.
Lucky Bastard movie review: Nice Guy in porn-rage massacre
Two contrived things, found-footage and porn, combine to create a flick that is distasteful and downright disgusting in so many ways.
