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Review: The Circle

A flat and middling adaptation of Dave Eggers' novel, The Circle is meant to be a 1984 for the digital age yet it works neither as...

Unlike Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now or Don Lope de Aguirre in Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Lost City of Z's Major Percy Fawcett's...

A businessman reading a newspaper. A pregnant woman standing under a clock. Two women laughing. A door slamming. A drop of water. These...

Fairy tales may be made for children but they often recount the darker corners of human nature and the moral morass that surrounds even...

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver is an exhilarating, ridiculously satisfying action musical fable that emphatically announces its intentions...

On the heels of last summer's shark thriller, The Shallows, comes the significantly subpar 47 Metres Down, which features not one but two...

Lies can often be more of a balm than the truth. When so much loss has been had, self-serving fictions can help one to rebuild. In...

Published in 2009, Herman Koch's international bestseller The Dinner has already been adapted three times for the big screen: a 2013...

Based on an extraordinary true story, The Zookeeper's Wife is a powerful, moving and inspiring film with a typically superb central...

Stuff gets blown up. Robots throw down. Humans try to keep straight faces whilst spouting dialogue that contributes not a whit to any...