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Into the Inferno review: Werner Herzog communes with volcanoes
Ben Nicholson on Werner Herzog and Cambridge professor Clive Oppenheimer’s wispy but winningly insouciant geological jaunt around the earth’s fiery maws.
Tuesday 27 September 2016 -
Nocturnal Animals review: Tom Ford gets his junk on
The fashion designer’s follow-up to A Single Man, in which Amy Adams’ gallerist projects herself into her ex-husband’s latest potboiler, conjures a very good sense of reading a not very good book, says Simran Hans.
Monday 26 September 2016 -
Prevenge review: Alice Lowe’s broody slasher satire
Look who’s stalking: director-star Alice Lowe lets it all hang out as a psycho mum-to-be in this wicked send-up of pregnancy mores, says Michael Leader.
Friday 23 September 2016 -
Hermia & Helena review: Matías Piñeiro’s midsummer Manhattan dream
Tom Charity on Argentine writer-director Matías Piñeiro’s first English-language film, a New York transposition of his Rohmeresque riffs on Shakespeare’s romcoms.
Friday 23 September 2016 -
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography review – Errol Morris’s homage to Polaroids
Ben Nicholson on Errol Morris’s genial inquiry into photographic memory by way of a tribute to a photographer and friend.
Friday 23 September 2016 -
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail review – Steve James meets the minnows of mortgage fraud
Tom Charity on Steve James’s documentary portrait of a (sometimes too) friendly family firm of Chinese-American bankers – and their post-banking crash prosecution.
Tuesday 20 September 2016 -
Jackie review: portrait of the icon under the shadow
Pablo Larraín’s prismatic take on a newly widowed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis explores the legend-cultivating icon, but doesn’t much lift the veil on anything human, says Tom Charity.
Friday 16 September 2016 -
La La Land – first-look review
Once more with zing: Chazelle, Hurwitz, Gosling and Stone bring the musical back to Hollywood, says Tom Charity.
Thursday 15 September 2016 -
The Cinema Travellers – first-look review
Ben Nicholson on a documentary tribute to India’s dwindling band of roving film projectionists that mixes hope with nostalgia.
Tuesday 13 September 2016 -
Moonlight first-look review: masculinity, differently
Barry Jenkins’ deft, affecting drama shades three steps of growth and connection in a quiet Miami boy’s journey to manhood, says Simran Hans.
Tuesday 13 September 2016 -
Simran Hans on Amma Asante’s retelling of the post-war, inter-continental love story between Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, a refresh of the woman’s picture that again confronts skeletons of Britain’s colonial past.
Monday 12 September 2016 -
Simran Hans on Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise counterpoint, a late 70s, warehouse-confined Boston-Irish crime caper steeped in blood and banter.
Sunday 11 September 2016
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