Review: 5 to 7
She is exotically beautiful and smoking a cigarette. "We are exiles, the smokers," he says, his opening gambit drawing out her smile. She...
Review: Madame Bovary
"My dear Emma," one character tells Gustave Flaubert's titular (anti)heroine, "you are unrelentingly standing under an apple tree wishing...
Review: The Gunman
The Gunman begins in 2006 in the stylishly sun-baked Democratic Republic of Congo. News reports inform us that this is the scene of the...
Review: Jurassic World
Jurassic Park should never have been a franchise. Few directors can match Steven Spielberg's mastery at rooting spectacle in childlike...
Review: While We're Young
"You want it now that it's impossible," Cornelia (Naomi Watts) yells at her husband Josh (Ben Stiller) as they argue in the middle of a...
Review: Hungry Hearts
Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher were awarded at this year's Venice Film Festival for their performances in Hungry Hearts. To say the...
Review: Miss Julie
Liv Ullmann's adaptation of August Strindberg's 1888 play, Miss Julie, is replete with painterly compositions, none more striking than...
Review: San Andreas
New York takes a well-deserved break from serving as filmmakers' favoured backdrop for mass destruction. This time, the disaster strikes...
Review: Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth opens with Alicia Vikander's face as her inscrutable gaze observes those around her. Hers is an almost inconceivable...
Review: Spy
Melissa McCarthy is not Julia Roberts. Yet here she is in Spy, having her Pretty Woman moment at the practically geriatric age of 45....
