Oscars 2019: read our reviews of the winning films

Green Book review: the little hoax that could

Peter Farrelly’s one-sided race-road-movie two-hander sports a handful of virtues, not least its illustration of the reducible art of baiting the most prestigious film awards in the land, says Nick Pinkerton.
Monday 25 February 2019

Bohemian Rhapsody review: Freddie Mercury, tied up with a bow

Bryan Singer’s story of a queer immigrant’s rise to 1980s rock divinity contrives to be pedestrian and by the numbers – with only Rami Malek’s vital performance to give it depth, finds Kate Stables.
Tuesday 26 February 2019

Film of the week: Roma reframes Alfonso Cuáron’s boyhood through the eyes of his family’s maid

Cuáron’s magnificently crafted memoir casts us back to a 1970s childhood in the throes of family break-up, ruptures on the streets of Mexico City – and a Mixtec housekeeper given the weight of the drama, writes Nick Pinkerton.
Saturday 1 December 2018

BlacKkKlansman review: Spike Lee fails to get to the heart of racist America

Spike Lee recounts the true story of a black police officer who went undercover in the KKK in this sweeping, clumsy parable, more concerned with landing jokes than interrogating racial hatred, writes Kelli Weston.
Friday 24 August 2018

The Favourite review: a rich and ribald royal farce

As a whimsical, infantile Queen Anne, Olivia Colman holds court to rivals Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’s invigoratingly offbeat costume comedy, writes Philip Kemp.
Tuesday 1 January 2019

If Beale Street Could Talk review: a thwarted romance in slow-motion

Barry Jenkins’s languorous follow-up to Moonlight is a lovingly observed story of two young people who come together in a hazy 1970s New York, before being torn apart by rough justice, writes Nick Pinkerton.
Thursday 7 February 2019

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review: a wider webbed world

The original Peter Parker is joined by five new iterations of the arachnoid superhero in this mercurial and visually dazzling caper. Review by Henry K. Miller.
Wednesday 12 December 2018

Free Solo: our love affair with the lone hero

An astonishing new documentary records one man’s death-defying climb in Yosemite, California. Isolated on the rock, he embodies the solitary hero of a classic western, writes David Thomson.
Sunday 23 December 2018

Black Panther review: an electrifying, Afrofuturist superhero movie

Ryan Coogler’s spectacular film diverges from one tradition while honouring another, in the process becoming a unusually poignant, political entry in the Marvel franchise, writes Kelli Weston.
Friday 16 February 2018

A Star Is Born first look: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga revive a Hollywood tale for the YouTube age

Bradley Cooper’s accomplished debut stars Lady Gaga as an aspiring singer looking for a break, while the director plays the sozzled rocker who gives her a hand up, writes Paul O’Callaghan.
Tuesday 4 September 2018