The Son review | A reasonably affecting family melodrama
★★★☆☆
High-flying businessman Peter (Hugh Jackman) struggles to get through to his son Nicholas (Zen McGrath) in Florian Zeller’s family drama, The Son.
★★★☆☆
High-flying businessman Peter (Hugh Jackman) struggles to get through to his son Nicholas (Zen McGrath) in Florian Zeller’s family drama, The Son.
★★★☆☆
In Blue Jean, Georgia Oakley’s impressive, but flawed debut, a PE teacher faces a personal crisis in Thatcher’s Britain.
★★★★☆
In Sarah Polley’s gentle Women Talking, a group of Mennonite women debate whether they should leave their colony after a series of brutal attacks against them.Â
★★★★★
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale has the ingredients for a deeply problematic film, but it's a profoundly moving, triumphant drama.
★★☆☆☆
Enys Men is Mark Jenkin’s attempt to repeat the success of Bait but it’s a disorienting, alienating tale of isolation and memory.
★★★☆☆
Sam Mendes’ latest effort, Empire of Light, is a messy film about love, mental health, cinema and racial tensions in Margate in the 1980s.
★★★★☆
Chinonye Chukwu’s deeply devastating Till is a story of grief, loss and resilience in an unequal world.Â
★★★★★
Daniel Craig returns as master sleuth Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, a riotously fun sequel to Knives Out.Â
★★★★☆
If Covid analogies must bombard us over the next few years, let them all be as entertaining as White Noise.
★★★★☆
She Said tells the story of two New York Times journalists who eventually brought down Harvey Weinstein with their investigation.Â
★★★☆☆
The film version of the hit West End show is getting its world premiere at BFI London Film Festival and Matilda is still as naughty as ever.
★★☆☆☆
Luca Guadagnino reunites with Timothée Chalamet in a tender cannibal romance that lacks bite, and its themes aren't fleshed out enough.Â