25 February 2021
Sweet, upbeat, and continually entertaining, this riff on the “same day repeating” genre is a teenage rom com at its best.
11 February 2021
One of those films where someone gets cancer and slowly dies, it sounds like just the sort of thing most of us don’t need right now. Surprisingly, though, it might be just the thing.
29 January 2021
A classic story about the moral awakening of a dock worker and reluctant hoodlum, the film reflects its time as well as a humanity that transcends it.
12 November 2020
This grippingly idiosyncratic limited series raises a perennially relevant moral conundrum: in such a troubled game of life, is it even possible to lead a functional, let alone ethical, human existence?
28 October 2020
Aaron Sorkin’s intelligent and punchy courtroom drama displays refreshing confidence in our inherited systems of government.
7 July 2020
It is a rare film that makes me want to turn around and straight away watch it again.
27 May 2020
Simultaneously ruthlessly distanced and heartfelt, the series serves up a refreshing validation of conflicting emotions in the wake of sudden, life-altering loss.
31 March 2020
With masterful restraint and human sensitivity, its sheer quality speaks for itself.
20 November 2019
Broody, restrained, and a verbally-attentive kind of beautiful, this adaptation of Henry V wraps up Shakespeare’s plot in an aesthetic blend of Braveheart and The Crown.
7 October 2019
It is difficult to decide which of two seemingly opposite things to say first: that this is a very good, perhaps even great, film. Or that there is very little commendable in what it depicts.