Film Reviews

High-concept in setup and deliberately constricted in scope, I Am Mother weaves an assured if subtle kind of fascination through its small-scale yet suggestive coming-of-age drama. Recently released directly to Netflix (you will need a

Rather like the ice cream cones on offer at amusement parks, Spider-Man: Far From Home does well what the Marvel movies do best: it delivers a surge of brand-standard superhero uplift, served this time

Great in ambition, albeit modest in achievement, Yesterday sets for itself the apparently impossible task of making an out-of-this-world idea – what things would be like if almost no one remembered the Beatles –

More often than not, it has been said, when someone sees good in something, he or she is probably right. Conversely, when one can only see what is bad, he or she is probably

The film opens on a sequin-bedazzled devil striding boldly down a hallway. In the costume is the popstar Reginald Kenneth Dwight, better known by his stage alias, Elton Hercules John. At the end of

Loosely based upon a spin-off video game of the same name, Pokémon Detective Pikachu is the first live-action installment in the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon franchise. Expanding over the last 25 years from video and card games

A woman wants an adventure to share, not to be the adventure. So writes John Eldredge in Wild At Heart, the one-time American bestseller about how to be a manly Christian. The feasibility of generalising

This film demonstrates in the usual way why superheroes are basically a daydream of invincible adolescence. That’s not all it does, though, and that’s what makes it unusually interesting. In addition to its titanic,

It is sometimes suggested in learned circles that the quality of a film can be judged by watching it with the sound off. If you can still follow the narrative from the body language,