‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ Review: Eerie Tale of Jealousy And Talent Lost
Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a kindergarten teacher who writes poetry that fails to impress her class and who is losing her pride in her...
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‘Outlaw King’ Review: Stern But Fun Historical Epic
Robert The Bruce swears fielty to King Edward I after the Battle of Stirling. But after the death of William Wallace, the will to fight...
‘Birds of Passage’ Review: The Tragic Early Days Of The Columbian Drug Trade
In 1960s Columbia, the Wayuu family are going to get involved in the newly emergent drugs trade. As the business tears it’s claws into the...
‘Suspiria’ Review: A Terrifying Expansion On The Original
Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) attends an exclusive modern dance school in 1977. She soon learns that there is something sinister at work in this school and...
‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Review: A fun If Messy Fantasy Adventure
Toby Grisoni (Adam Driver) is trying to direct a movie about Don Quixote, a film he already made as a student project some ten years...
‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: Brutal Thriller starring Mel Gibson as a Problematic Cop
Brett Ridgeman (Mel Gibson) and Anthony Lurasetti (Vince Vaughan) get suspended from the police force after a heavy-handed arrest in which they physically abuse a...
‘Holiday’ Review: An Uncomfortable And Provocative Story Of Luxury And Abuse
Sasha (Victoria Carmen Sonne) is the trophy girlfriend of a violent and possessive druglord (Lai Yde). He and his crew and hangers-on go on holiday...
‘Wild Rose’ Review: Country Music And Motherhood In Hilarious Gem
Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is a young Glaswegian mum who dreams of becoming a country music star. She has just served twelve months in prison...
‘Roma’ Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Extraordinary Portrait Of Life In Mexico City
Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) is a maid working for a wealthy family in 1970s Mexico City. The family is undergoing a messy separation when Cleo discovers...
‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’ Review: Six Tall Tales Of The Old West
The Coen Brothers return to tell six tall tales from the old west. A singing cowboy (Tim Blake Nelson) wreaks havoc in a small town;...