The Whale review | Compassionate, triumphant filmmaking and a winning performance from Brendan Fraser
★★★★★
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale has the ingredients for a deeply problematic film, but it's a profoundly moving, triumphant drama.
★★★★★
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale has the ingredients for a deeply problematic film, but it's a profoundly moving, triumphant drama.
★★★☆☆
Skinamarink, Kyle Edward Ball’s viral, lo-fi horror film, taps into a familiar fear of the unknown. Read our review.Â
★★★★☆
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is a heartfelt, surprisingly mature look at life and death from one heroic cat’s perspective.
To celebrate the release of Knock At The Cabin, Paul Klein looks at the wrestlers who have turned themselves into movie stars.
★★★★☆ After the god-awful Old, cult director M. Night Shyamalan returns with a tense apocalyptic thriller Knock at the Cabin. Read our review.
Enjoy our guide to what’s on in cinemas this February. We got everything from talking shells to soulful donkeys and black market babies.Â
Will Smith has taken to social media to confirm a new Bad Boys film, after the fourth instalment in the franchise was thrown into doubt by Smith’s infamous Oscars slap.
Here's what's on in cinemas this February. We’ve got animated cats, male strippers and… a bear high on cocaine. Enjoy.Â
★★★★☆
Part biopic, part damning look at the opioid crisis in the US, All The Beauty and The Bloodshed is documentary filmmaking at its best. Read our review.
Gabriel LaBelle stars as young Sammy Fabelman in The Fabelmans. The actor tells us all about emulating the iconic Hollywood director.
Jon Wright’s Unwelcome is a film about goblins, PTSD and toxic masculinity. Read our review of the totally bonkers thriller.Â
★★★☆☆
In Plane, Gerard Butler stars as Captain Brodie Torrance who must team up with a convicted murderer to save his passengers from separatists in a war zone. Read our review.Â
★★★★☆
Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans digs deep into Spielberg’s own family and his upbringing, with sweet, if sentimental results. Read our review.
Rory Doherty explores how Damien Chazelle’s latest film, Babylon, reflects a long history of abuse in Hollywood.Â
A brand new trailer for the upcoming horror sequel has just landed online. Scream VI looks to reinvent Ghostface by the looks of it.
★★★★☆
In Alice, Darling, Anna Kendrick plays Alice, who is secretly stuck in an abusive relationship with seemingly no way out. Read our review.Â
In Emily Atef’s quietly moving More Than Ever, Vicky Krieps plays a woman battling a life-changing illness. Read our review.Â
Cineworld filed for bankruptcy in the States last October, and 2023’s cinema line-up might have other cinema chains quaking in their boots.
Director Damien Chazelle’s latest film, Babylon, explores the highs and lows of Hollywood and the magic of the movies. Read our review.Â
Sophie Kauer tells us how she got the part of Olga in the acclaimed Tár and how she learned all about acting from Cate Blanchett.Â
★★☆☆☆
Enys Men is Mark Jenkin’s attempt to repeat the success of Bait but it’s a disorienting, alienating tale of isolation and memory.
★★★☆☆
M3GAN is a fun horror thriller in line with Malignant and The Evil Dead. Read our review of the thrilling doll scarefest.
Ari Aster, the director behind Hereditary and Midsommar, returns with a brand new film, Beau Is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix.Â
Paul Mescal will reportedly play a grown-up version of Lucius in the long-awaited sequel to the Oscar-winning epic, Gladiator.Â
Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN, a horror thriller about a murderous doll, has just had a huge opening weekend in the US.
★★★☆☆
Sam Mendes’ latest effort, Empire of Light, is a messy film about love, mental health, cinema and racial tensions in Margate in the 1980s.
★★★☆☆
It’s all about Edgar Allan Poe in Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye. Poe assists Constable Landor (Christian Bale) in a murder investigation.
★★★★☆
Chinonye Chukwu’s deeply devastating Till is a story of grief, loss and resilience in an unequal world.Â
Matt Mills details the biggest pop-cultural powerhouses that owe themselves to the look of Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
James Cameron Avatar: The Way of Water has officially entered the top 10 highest-grossing films of all time.Â