Dramatising the famous Women’s Lib beauty pageant protest at the Royal Albert Hall, Philippa Lowthorpe’s richly cast period film makes a fair historical primer, but plays its satire safe, says Kate Stables.
Kristen Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan lead a familiarly shaped fictionalisation of the hit BBC garrision-wives choir show, but the testimonies they sing still hit home, says Kate Stables.
Anya Taylor-Joy is aptly brittle and doll-like as the haughty heroine of Autumn de Wilde’s polished and well-paced feature debut, which romps through a familiar plot and looks ravishing at every turn, writes Kate Stables
Working with director Alma Har’el, writer-star LaBeouf revisits his childhood in thrall to a dependent father in a drama whose raw feeling is close to heartbreaking, writes Kate Stables.
Daniel Craig plays the eccentric investigator determined to uncover the murderer of a wealthy patriarch in this inventive, witty comedy-thriller, writes Kate Stables.
Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee’s follow-up to their phenomenal ice-maiden animation takes on the weight of ecological tragedy with ravishing technique, but loses the human spark, says Kate Stables.
Shola Amoo’s semi-autobiographical second feature travels from Lincolnshire to London to Lagos with its torn young protagonist Femi, a boy caught between different mothers and backgrounds, says Kate Stables.
Leaving no stone turned in the search for dramatic conflict, Julian Fellowes’s aristo-soap film spin-off offers mitigation for a divided nation, says Kate Stables.
Hogg’s drily perceptive drama unfolds in a series of painterly and acutely well-judged vignettes, as Honor Swinton Byrne and Tom Burke play lovers adrift in early 1980s Knightsbridge, writes Kate Stables.