Milo Garner revisits Terrence Malick’s 20-year-old war epic. The opening shot of The Thin Red Line (1998) features a crocodile dipping into water and submerging itself. The image connotes nature as […]
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‘120 BPM’ Review
Pihla Pekkarinen and Emma Davis review 2017 Grand Prix-awarded French drama. 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) draws on the highly personal experiences of writer/director Robin Campillo and translates those experiences […]
‘Unsane’ Review
Ivan Nagar reviews Steven Soderbergh’s experimental new venture. It is 2018 and I am sitting in a cinema, waiting to watch a film shot on an iPhone. For someone who has […]
‘The Square’ Review
Diego Aparicio takes an exciting look at the 2017 Palme d’Or-winning satirical drama. This review originally appeared on the author’s film blog, Observancy. It has been slightly modified. Ruben Östlund’s follow-up […]
‘Isle of Dogs’ Review
George Moore-Chadwick reviews Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated return to animation. The opening of Isle of Dogs informs us the Japanese spoken in the film will not be translated, unless by a […]
‘Annihilation’ Review
Milo Garner reviews the highly anticipated scifi released on Netflix earlier this month. Alex Garland’s sophomore picture, the grandly-titled Annihilation, seems to promise high-concept sci-fi. This is a genre returning […]
‘Red Sparrow’ Review
Hebe Hamilton reviews Jennifer Lawrence’s latest spy thriller. CW: Rape, sexual assault/harassment. Is it ironic I went to see Red Sparrow, a film that sees its female protagonist sent off […]
‘The Touch’ Retrospective Review
Milo Garner looks back at a lesser-known Bergman through a fresh 2K restoration. The Touch (Beröringen) is, quite surprisingly, one of Ingmar Bergman’s most obscure films. It came out in 1971, […]
‘You Were Never Really Here’ Review
Raphael Duhamel reviews Lynne Ramsay’s thriller. You Were Never Really Here is a brilliantly discordant piece of cinema. With a run time of only eighty-five minutes, Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of […]
Discussion – ‘Being Blacker’
Emma Davis considers Molly Dineen’s documentary about the Brixton neighbourhood icon ahead of its premiere on BBC2 tonight. In Molly Dineen’s latest documentary Being Blacker, Brixton is the undercurrent to […]